On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
Sure, but it seems to me that, in most cases, the middle link of the chain
> has proven unnecessary. Governments modify their behavior in response to
> economic and technological development all the time; changes to accommodate
> popular pressure are, I think, much rarer. And most changes provoked by the
> latter than would not have inevitably occurred as results of the former.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."