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  • Despite his failure ever to meet Gladstone, Mr Bognador draws heavily on the Old Man's philosophy to argue that Tony Blair's recent transformation of the British constitution is more likely to strengthen the union than to break it apart.

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  • Did the voters of old Europe turn against the grand political design for the EU, as manifested in the now-rejected constitution, because they recoiled from being governed by a superstate out of Brussels?

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  • This is due partly to old court rulings excluding insurance from the definition of "interstate commerce, " which the U.S. Constitution explicitly states that Congress can regulate.

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