half an Airedale and half a Retriever, and the worst half of both
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We may read for instruction a great juridical text of the period, Sir John Fortescue’s De Laudibus Legum Angliae – ‘In Praise of the Laws of England’ – and even applaud the development or ‘evolution’ of justice; but in practice the law was rotten and worm-eaten. We may say the same of the parliament house and of the court. It is not to be expected that any human institution will be other than rackety and only partially competent; only in histories do they proceed with ease to their ordained end.
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What people don't think about, is that dictatorship and democracy, it's not this sort of glorious fight of black and white where at the end of the day people are gonna rise up and defend freedom. The way it actually works is, you vote for the wrong person, you don't get to vote again, because elections become meaningless, and you start to become afraid of things you haven't thought of being afraid of before.
We may read for instruction a great juridical text of the period, Sir John Fortescue’s De Laudibus Legum Angliae – ‘In Praise of the Laws of England’ – and even applaud the development or ‘evolution’ of justice; but in practice the law was rotten and worm-eaten. We may say the same of the parliament house and of the court. It is not to be expected that any human institution will be other than rackety and only partially competent; only in histories do they proceed with ease to their ordained end.
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What people don't think about, is that dictatorship and democracy, it's not this sort of glorious fight of black and white where at the end of the day people are gonna rise up and defend freedom. The way it actually works is, you vote for the wrong person, you don't get to vote again, because elections become meaningless, and you start to become afraid of things you haven't thought of being afraid of before.