... law, all inculcate the dominant culture, while trumpetingtiny differences, so that judges and academics flatter themselves on theiroriginality, by elevating trivial tinkering at the margins of ... self-consciously“republican” battles for liberty, beginning with Cicero and Cato in Rome, and leading through the Swiss and Italian republics to the Netherlands, theEnglish Commonwealth and finally to the American ... and social change Including Jefferson Davis in this list of innovators illustrates the limits ofsocial change, and of history as a model for innovation. Davis looked to theslave mines of Athens...