20 August 2015
Before any new constitution is drafted it is imperative to compare all constitutions of the new Europe and impartially to conceive their essence and their difference. Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz,Constitutionen der europäischen Staaten seit den letzten 25 Jahren ( Leipzig 1825), I, vii.
20 August 2015
The Olympics struggled with the centrifugal forces of parochial patriotism. Olympia was not immune to political interference, but abuses have happened more often today. D.C. Kyle, Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Malden MA, 2007), p. 130.
20 August 2015
In many ways it is the success of the project which explains the eruption of the debate. Europe is a transformed continent and polity. The ends underlying the structural means of European constitutionalism have been neglected. J. Weiler, The Constitution of Europe (Cambridge 1999), p. 8.
20 August 2015
The rarity of visual media also helps to explain the importance of architectural sculpture, items that are out of fashion in modern society, where the need of images is catered by other images (R. Green in Greek and Roman Theatre (Cambridge 2007), p. 163.
20 August 2015
Our sea was from the dawn of its protohistory a witness to imbalances productive of change which would set the rhythm ot its entire life, north-south and east-west contrasts, leading eventually to conflicts (F. Braudel, The Mediterranean in the Ancient World (London 2001), p. 58).