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WCL 612 - Jun 2009


What's in a name?

Sometimes it will be a can of worms.. How did it happen that on word could become so twisted in the minds of the English public and perhaps the British, that its meaning has turned for them into almost the precise opposite to its real meaning? Something sinister may be at work! "Federal" has a clear definition in political theory and in historical terms it can be shown to correspond fairly well to the understanding...

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