Archive for May, 2007

Laws and men

Posted in the larger world | Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 | 2 Comments »

In the government of this commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.

John Adams, Massachusetts Constitution (1780)

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Mob-FAT 2: Omit needless words

Posted in exampling, testing, MoBFAT | Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Earlier in the series:
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“Omit needless words” is number 13 of Strunk&White’s elementary rules for composing English. It’s a pretty good rule for composing tests, too, but not followed often enough. Let’s rewrite an example of the sort of test I often see.

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