- Understand social forces, struggle for power between king and church, and whatever.
- Legislatures aren’t all the same—deal with it.
- If presidential = independence, and parliamentary = expediency + efficiency, when must the train leave Boston if they are to meet in Chicago?
- Alliances get cobbled together to get things done in legislatures and control them and something.
- Authoritarian regimes use legislatures to make themselves credible.
- Always wear clean underwear, just in case you get hit by a bus and are hauled off to the hospital.