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...safety net and ensuring fair competition becomes more important, not less. Voters don’t have to take Ted Kennedy’s word for this. As the godfather of laissez-faire, Adam Smith, once wrote, “It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, cloathed and lodged...
Rough, religious Americans of the 17th Century had a handful of homemade rules of etiquette that were ambitious ("Cloath your selves with the Silk of Piety, the Satin of Sanctity, the Purple of Modesty . . .") and sometimes blunt ("Fish and visitors stink in three days"). By the 18th Century, they had learned to plagiarize the French and English rule-books, after carefully tossing out all that smacked of aristocratic cynicism...
Momentos of the ascension of James II include elaborate rules for ladies's wear, and descriptions of the fireworks celebrating the occasion. The Duke of Norfolk, in charge of the ceremonies in 1685, ordered the women to wear "petticoats" of "cloath of silver," and to allow their "surcoats to open before, that the petticoats may show." Two weeks before the event he ordered that no person attending the coronation, either as a guest of spectator "do appear in Mourning Habit for that...
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