| Pre-emptive war, toothless lawgivers, and corporate greed leave democracy in the hands of the people. |
| The reluctance of lawgivers to push conversion to the metric system is due mainly of these three objections by the fundamentalist lobby. |
| They accept Washington and Jefferson as slaveholders rather than as lawgivers of genius. |
| But there is no hint that the other great lawgivers sought even a formal ratification for their codes. |
| In international law, violators do sometimes turn out to be lawgivers. |
| It relieved humanity of the heavy load under which it was groaning and broke the fetters unjust rulers and ignorant lawgivers had put around its feet. |
