Finally, it should also be noted that the very existence of a bicameral legislature is itself another defence of the status quo. - Tom Flanagan

But if politics is an art, it is not like sculpture or painting, where one side acts and the other is passive material. It is more like drama without a script, or dance without choreography - in other words, improvisation. Either player may surprise us again with a new move.

The foot, the pound, and the pint are all close to the size of many things used in daily life. In contrast, the metre, the kilogram, and the litre are all rather large, and the centimetre, the gram, and the millilitre rather small, for many practical uses.

Like all of mathematics, game theory is a tautology whose conclusions are true because they are contained in the premises.