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Yes, the judge engages in extended discourses on constitutional history and theory, quotes the Federalist papers and even mentions the events that led up to the original Tea Party.

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His discourses are popular with those surrounding him.

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Three long-lived understandings (historical discourses) have been reconstructed.

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He did not bring books to class, never a sign of the textbook or a sheaf of notes, and his shambling discourses made us feel that we were becoming what he saw before him, an amorphous entity.

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