December 2010
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The trend toward ever-higher official conduct norms was best discussed in the 1964 essay, “The Purity Potlach”, by Bayless Manning, the Dean of Stanford Law School:
To the extent that our politics partake of the nature of a Morality Play, they have inevitably required, an generated, a set of theatrical conventions as arbitrary, and as acceptable, as thonse of any dramatic form. The...