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Daily Archives: October 17, 2013
Reasons to be thankful there’s no separation of powers in the UK
Tomorrow morning, several hundred thousand employees of the US federal government will return to work. Aside from the politics of the moment, the federal government shutdown is in many respects the product of the US Constitution, and in particular the … Continue reading