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There__ a reason you probably haven__ heard much about this aspect of the heartland. This kind of blight can__ be easily blamed on the usual suspects like government or counterculture or high-hat urban policy. The villain that did this to my home state wasn__ the Supreme Court or Lyndon Johnson, showering dollars on the poor or putting criminals back on the street. The culprit is the conservatives_ beloved free-market capitalism, a system that, at its most unrestrained, has little use for smalltown merchants or the agricultural system that supported the small towns in the first place....

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Thomas Frank

What's the Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

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The kingdom of Aragon possessed an official known as the Justicia, for whom no exact equivalent is to be found in any country of western Europe. An Aragonese noble appointed by the Crown, the Justicia was appointed to see that the laws of the land were not infringed by royal or baronial officials, and that the subject was protected against any exercise of arbitrary power. The office of Justicia by no means worked perfectly, and by the late fifteenth century it was coming to be regarded as virtually hereditary in the family of Lanuza, which had close ties with the Crown; but none the less, the...

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J.H. Elliott

Imperial Spain: 1469-1716