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Dworkin wishes to replace the moral teleology of law with obeisance to cultural prejudices, informing us that unjust acts may be countenanced when popular ideology asserts them to be "personal" and hence putatively free of legal restraint.
"We have said 'yes' to many things which would be countenanced in no other democracy," he said--to "power-sharing with former terrorists" and to "a system of allocating ministries in the proposed Executive which would lead to an over-representation of nationalists."
Sphinxes and centaurs and other countenanced but handless creatures not only do not exist, they could not exist.
"To backpedal in any way would result in more demands from all sides for more renegotiation, put the deal as a whole in jeopardy, and must not be countenanced," it said.
He has never countenanced a campaign plan; and in the absence of one, even air power has been misapplied.