However, no merely formal safeguards can be effective against the power lust of persons who conspire to depotentise the very provisions intended to restrain just such persons as themselves.

If a controversy breaks out among scholars about the dating of the Great Vowel Shift, or among Klingonists about the correct translation of 'loaves and fishes', the effect on most people's lives is negligible.

where man hath a great living laid together and where he is scanted

Parenting is hard enough without having judgy-pants people interfering.