Word: sovereign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mores in this Republic require that the 48 sovereign states at periodic intervals should produce a species of humans which the press heroically calls Standard Bearers. After one and one-third centuries of experiment the states have decided that only governors and senators qualify for such a title. The other representatives, judges, comptrollers, etc., important though they may be in the discharge of Democracy's functions, are merely part of the ticket and make the ballot look like part of the telephone directory. The Standard Bearers have no flags to wave, but their party gives them a "plat- form...
...adoption of polygamy will drop grave political questions into the hands of the League. First, the influence of Salt Lake City will be greatly increased possessing as it does the only Handbook of Rules on the subject. Secondly, a preponderance of power can easily be obtained by any single sovereign hold enough, whenever occasion demands, to make the matrimonial venture. The above problems are, however, trivial compared with the various domestic difficulties that will unquestionably arise. For it is, indeed, doubtful if any prince now living possesses those queer qualities of genius of Brigham Young...
...such a strike would be interpreted not only as an affront to the Imperial House but as a defamation of the gods from whom the Mikado is descended. Hence, in disputes between capital and labor, the Emperor has gradually been drawn into the position-undesirable for a modern sovereign-of standing always with the full purse against the empty. Now, by liquidating its holdings, the Imperial House will resume the high impartiality expected of sovereigns...
...asked to believe that public opinion rules the Unitd States. It is the ultimate sovereign, the supreme law of the land. This is proposition number three in our fundamentalist decalogue. Government by public opinion is a phrase that slips easily from the tongue and has been so often repeated that most people believe it to be true. Yet public opinion, when you try to define it, proves to be a very elusive thing. What passes on public opinion, in perhaps the majority of cases, is simply the outcome of propegrade and counter-propaganda working the upon the traditions, prejudices, aversions...
...What sovereign, who usually creases his trousers down the side, creased them down the front last week...