The “restorationist” constitutional narratives and interpretive theories promoted by Republican politicians and lawyers, [this] Essay suggests, serve to legitimate the party’s use of constitutional hardball.

VVe keep company vvith Harlots and polluted perſons: vve are kind to all Gods Enemies, and love that vvhich he hates: […] And therefore God is inquiſitive; he looks for that vvhich he fain vvould never finde; God ſets ſpies upon us; he looks upon us himſelf through the Curtains of a cloud; and he ſends Angels to eſpie us in all our vvayes, […]

[Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. Is the devil in him, was his first exclamation, to go to disturb the brute?

He was ex-job, Beavis. Detective sergeant out of County, Banbury, retired in ‘59.