Tag Archives: Wilfred U Codrington III

Movements are afoot

For a while now I’ve been picking up on movements that have advanced from inchoate mutterings to full voice plans and plots. I’m liking this a lot. Aside from the already written vital legislation which got stopped, i.e., postponed, by … Continue reading

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It has happened before

While our immediate world seems to have been turned upside down in the space of a couple of nauseating weeks, I am reading a book about the Constitution. Yes, this is one of those “I’m reading a book” posts. Can’t … Continue reading

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Elbridge Gerry and me

Since the Gerry gentleman’s dates (1744-1814) precede mine, he never knew me. But I know him, and for more than his most prominent connection, the portmanteau term “gerrymander.” Elbridge Gerry, as I’m learning from reading The People’s Constitution, by John F. … Continue reading

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