This Article argues that “necessary and proper” and “cruel and unusual” are best read as instances of hendiadys. Hendiadys is a figure of speech in which two terms, separated by a conjunction, have a single complex meaning.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
For You Scrabble Players: A New Obscure Word
From an upcoming paper by UCLA law professor Samuel Bray:
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