But it is said that the laws of the Union are to be the
SUPREME LAW of the land.
It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the
supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves.
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the
supreme Court;
The form of government is the ordering and regulating of the city, and all the offices in it, particularly those wherein the
supreme power is lodged; and this power is always possessed by the administration; but the administration itself is that particular form of government which is established in any state: thus in a democracy the
supreme power is lodged in the whole people; on the contrary, in an oligarchy it is in the hands of a few.
What of the mode of service in which etiquette was replaced by order; stiff formality by personal, unrestrained comfort; the happiness and contentment of the guest became the
supreme law of all who obeyed the host?
Their
supreme chief donned a fur coat and, having seated himself in a sleigh, galloped on alone, abandoning his companions.
Some have felt that these blundering lives are due to the inconvenient indefiniteness with which the
Supreme Power has fashioned the natures of women: if there were one level of feminine incompetence as strict as the ability to count three and no more, the social lot of women might be treated with scientific certitude.
Tolstoy is, of course, the first of them in this
supreme grace.
But after making six books about the adventures of those interesting but queer people who live in the Land of Oz, the Historian learned with sorrow that by an edict of the
Supreme Ruler, Ozma of Oz, her country would thereafter be rendered invisible to all who lived outside its borders and that all communication with Oz would, in the future, be cut off.
One day, about a week before one of these feasts, he met the
Supreme Gobbler, who said:
As the
supreme perfection and universality of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" cast into oblivion whatever pre-Homeric poets had essayed, so these same qualities exercised a paralysing influence over the successors of Homer.
He says there are no absolute values "good" and "evil"; these are mere means adopted by all in order to acquire power to maintain their place in the world, or to become
supreme.
