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“... of their birthright. ‘This guy’ – another common locution – didn’t have a right to give laws to Americans. When the Clinton impeachment was going forward, Obama was a young Chicago politician with other things on his mind. He could have learned something then about how the Republicans work. The most questionable of his appeals in the primary ...”

“... was sovereign because the people were sovereign, and because Parliament represented the people. Laws enacted by the Crown in Parliament were legitimate because the Members of Parliament who voted for them were elected by, and accountable to, their constituents. The executive acts of Government were legitimate because the members of the Government were ...”

“... she explains the difference between equality (‘equal opportunity’ backed by non-discrimination laws) and ‘equity’ (the equal finish that is assured by a truly equal start). The Biden-Harris combination must have been meant to assure voters of several kinds of diversity: age, sex, race. The two go together more plainly in having never ventured far from ...”

“... despised abroad and at home, this crowing may prove not to have been the wisest of moves. David Kelly’s decision to take his own life on 17 July 2003 produced a wave of public revulsion against the government, and against the prime minister in particular. It could have seemed a relatively minor event – the sad death of an eminent public servant ...”

“... and sport are classed as ‘supporting competences’, and do not require the harmonisation of laws by member states. In other words, a web of EU law is superimposed on the law of member states, with some strands reaching further than others. In areas where the EU makes regulations, they have ‘direct effect’ in UK law without the need for any domestic ...”

“... child with which Donzelot is concerned here, and he provides a wealth of examples of techniques, laws, institutions and so on which were created in France to manage the problem of childhood. Whether such developments also took place in Britain at the same time requires investigation, but the broad outlines of the argument can be seen here: for example, in ...”

“... Both David Cressy and Cynthia Herrup believe they are writing microhistory, a word coined by Italians, but used to describe above all the work of Natalie Zemon Davis (The Return of Martin Guerre, 1983) and Robert Darnton (The Great Cat Massacre, 1984). Microhistorians have turned to the verbatim records of interrogations kept in the law courts of early modern Europe (or at least those parts of Europe where Roman law procedures were followed) to reconstruct the detailed stories of individual trials ...”

“... to be gaining a presence not just in politics but in pop culture too. That same month, May 1976, David Bowie was photographed at Victoria Station on his return to Britain after two years in North America. Standing in an open-topped Mercedes, he appeared to give his fans some kind of open-handed, straight-armed – possibly fascist – salute. Soon afterwards ...”

“... some of the most weaselly words in a book that quotes many. The obfuscation at work in both laws makes it hard to determine how many Nazi criminals escaped punishment, but Frei estimates there were tens of thousands, including some who had committed manslaughter or murder. More widespread in its effects was the 1951 law on the Civil Service, which ...”

“... restraint in the way that soldiers conduct war. As Best shows, generals and their lawyers take the laws of war very seriously indeed. International protocols and internal military guidelines give much latitude to commanders on the ground. This may make the law appear feeble, sometimes to the point of vacuity, but it is also its realism. Chief among the ...”

“... writing is recognisably clean, clear and colloquial, only occasionally falling into what David Hare calls ‘the Esperanto patter of the higher mysticism’. From the start, Brook avoids ‘personal relationships, indiscretions, indulgences, excesses, names of close friends, private angers, family adventures or debts of gratitude’, though there is ...”

“... dreams as we have here. (This has always been true: witness the historical necessity for rules or laws limiting the length of the working day and setting similar caps on time-forcing and squeezing: if such limitations are to work at all, they must apply to everyone.) The book ends with an epilogue like none other that I know: the intimate picture of a West ...”

“... went along with a deep and steady compassion for his fellow men and a bitter contempt for those laws, institutions, prejudices and fashions that perpetuated inequality and injustice. As Dr Watts points out, Cunninghame Graham was not an anachronistic, chivalric figure engaged in romantic gestures. In spite of his fierce involvement in politics and his ...”

“... and small brims, known as bowlers in Britain, derbies in the United States. Because the sumptuary laws that had prescribed what could be worn in public had become a distant memory by the mid-19th century, people wore hats not only to identify themselves as members of or aspirants to a particular social class, but to show disdain for or to parody the ...”

“... disregard for discrepancies between representation and practice. The Ancien Régime passed laws to ban racial intermarriage and expel Blacks and mixed-race people from the kingdom. But this outburst of anti-African racism was confined to elite circles and the laws met with so much indifference or opposition that they ...”