CHAPTER 3 It was late one February morning when Mr. Randolph had sent Camden into the sitting room to finish a reading assignment. Camden had read Plato and Montesquieu and several other works of political philosophy and legal theory, but the well-worn volume over which he was presently hunched surpassed them all in terms of its impenetrability. Despite resting perfectly well the night before, his eyelids began to sag and the words began to blur. If Mr. Randolph had asked him to recite the facts of the case he was reading at that moment, he would have been at an utter loss. It had something to do with property, he hazily recalled, but that was the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.
Defying Conventions (Part III)
Defying Conventions (Part III)
Defying Conventions (Part III)
CHAPTER 3 It was late one February morning when Mr. Randolph had sent Camden into the sitting room to finish a reading assignment. Camden had read Plato and Montesquieu and several other works of political philosophy and legal theory, but the well-worn volume over which he was presently hunched surpassed them all in terms of its impenetrability. Despite resting perfectly well the night before, his eyelids began to sag and the words began to blur. If Mr. Randolph had asked him to recite the facts of the case he was reading at that moment, he would have been at an utter loss. It had something to do with property, he hazily recalled, but that was the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.