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This regularized the relationship between the Church and the Italian state, which had remained unsettled during the years since the Risorgimento.
And insofar as much of our everyday lives depends on knowing that certain rules count and others don't--like laws banning cursing out loud, or spitting in public, or oral sex--Rudy Giuliani is making everyone feel very unsettled.
' " Apparently unsettled by this effective one-two punch, McCain responded with a rambling compendium of his most familiar lines on the subject of campaign finance reform culminating in his repetition of his not very funny joke from last night about how Bush should get a better picture of McCain for the attack ads running in New Hampshire (which aren't in fact connected to the Bush campaign).
During this unsettled period many people moved to the south; the Yangzi (Yangtze) valley developed into the leading center of Chinese culture.
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.
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