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Mind you, to be fair, we don't really know the date of inception of the Republic or much else with confidence before the First Punic War. Claudius's account of the treaty with Carthage from the early Republic being in such old Latin he couldn't read it being an interesting qualification.
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There are a number of these in one form or another. "Morale" has an e to distinguish it from "moral" and preserve the French pronunciation; in Fr. there is no e. Double entendre is archaic in French, the sense now being given by double entente. Niche (Lat. nidus) is nitch not neesh.
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It was common in Shakespeare's day, although Donne in his famous Devotion "No man is an island..." uses "translated". An attempted Saxonist revival in the 19th c. went with birdlore and foreword.
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The MAGA movement is, not least because of its conspiratorialism, inherently antisemitic. To some extent it engages in salami slicing in its original meaning. The longer it remains in power, the more evident this will become.
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This used to be quite common in legal citations. Eg in Ex parte Symes, "Ex parte" would be printed in roman & "Symes" in italics, contrariwise to the body text.
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On the other hand, what many billionaires relish is being beyond the reach of the law (especially criminal law), so that The Boss will reward them by appointing tame investigators, pliable judges, and so forth.
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It's hard to see eg a Russian oligarch depending on the rule of law to maintain his Russian property at any rate.
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Since the other thread is restricted, I'd note a thought that the risk of billionaires losing their wealth to arbitrary administrative action is low. All they must recall is they are only billionaires for life, which depends on keeping in with The Boss and retaining sufficient muscle.
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If you have a straight choice of the imperfect but good or the wholly-evil, and you sit it out demanding the perfect, you enable the evil. What happens is your fault because you thought your purity more important than reducing harm to others.
History remembers the KPD as cretins, and rightly so.
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One wonders is there naïvety here. A potential deportee in Guantanamo is practically less able to access legal advice. And we don't know (though can guess) under what conditions as to food & shelter Trump intends to hold the detainees.
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In 1942 the Government issued what could be described as a decree of attainder against an IRA man called George Plant, who shortly afterwards was executed by firing squad.
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The Constitution of 1937 contained the same fundamental rights as it does today (albeit then judicially little noticed), but also an express state of exception.
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(It has to be said as JJ Lee noted that the Irish political ethos was far more resilient, and Ireland compared very favourably with European counterparts in maintaining democracy.)
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The new State suffered perhaps 13 years of real political instability, followed by decades more of its apprehension. In 1931 this www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1931/act... radical in form (less in practice) Public Safety Act was inserted as an amendment to the 1922 Constitution.
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Brian Walsh once mocked the proposition that Westminster could enact that all blue-eyed babies be killed at birth. Naturally, a parliament that enacted a real-world equivalent would be so far depraved that a written instrument would be no restraint.
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That is to say, Dred Scott and Plassey are the rule, Miranda and Brown the exception.
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David Allen Green is broadly right. The humanity of legislation within a State largely depends on its political ethos. Where judges are given a veto on laws, politicians exercise whatever role they have in judicial appointments to appoint conservative ones.
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"Lady Day" is a late survivor of a feminine gentive in English without 's, the Feast of the Annunciation being Our Lady's Day.
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Some further obs. S. 34 of the Act of Oblivion excepting the regicides adverts to the executioners who "did appear upon the scaffold erected before Whitehall upon the thirtieth of January one thousand six hundred forty and eight". Citation of the Bill of Rights likewise hovers between 1688 and 1689.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a fascinating piece not least because, though its anti-Nazism is heartfelt, it is also full of cynical takes on the British Empire which seem generally overlooked. Pressburger would have been "on the other side" in WWI.
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The principle is probably much the same and is far from novel.
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There is an elementary classroom experiment 2KMnO⁴ + 5H²C²O⁴ + 3H²SO⁴ -> K²SO⁴ + MnSO⁴ + 10CO² + 8H²O. The reaction is instantaneous at 140⁰F. At room temperature, it takes an hour. Place even a primitive ultrasound speaker over the mixture & it takes 20 mins.
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Eg foilsigh, publish, is fo (under) plus solas (light) plus sagye- (seek) plus -tur mediopassive 3d sing so "light is sought/caused to be shone on".
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Seek also has a fascinating contribution to Irish through its PIE ancestor. The pattern of the second conjugation is originally a non-verbal root plus the root for "seek" plus a mediopassive/deponent ending.