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Where the old Newt was a compelling meanie, the new one offers anodyne platitudes and empty uplift.
For the benefit of the uninitiated let me say that lawyers, deluded or not, overwhelmingly believe that with the exception of constitutions and of statutes enacted by legislatures (and rules under them), precedent is what the law is made of in the United States; that the law existed before written language in the tradition of “customs that runneth not to the contrary’ and continues to thrive in the printed decisions; that the statutes themselves remain unsettled until rounded out by precedent; that precedents may become so venerable as to become platitudes but may also be as fresh as the undried ink on today's appellate court decision; and that when a lawyer searches for as recent a decision as he can find, in a jurisdiction as near as possible, on facts as close to his client's case as possible, never overruled or modified, and pronouncing the law as clearly as possible, he is doing what he should be doing and might well be guilty of malpractice for failing to do so.
. The tapes overflow with Polonius platitudes: "Be true to yourself"; "People don't care what you know till they know that you care."
So let me turn from the ridiculous to the sublimely horrible, and from Britain to a place where they can only dream of a politics of contented, recycled platitudes: Russia.
Since I believe that "normal" Western politics is the politics of platitudes (and looking at Russia, perhaps we should not knock that), I am going to pick up my theme of our democratic, domestic rhetoric and come back to your turf, that of history, in a reverse manner.
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