I do know that some MPs give authority to another MP to put their name on such a motion. But I can't think of any member who would do so in this instance. I will look into the matter. That's the best I can do and I will continue watching Big Brother in my spare time.

We wanted to have a ruling on the ultimate authority to set those standards. What if they (the tribe) decide to change their mind tomorrow?

His authority has disappeared virtually to vanishing point. He is in office but not in power.

Many of these questions are extremely controversial, from abortion to gay rights, to the authority of the federal government over the states, and so on and so forth.

...But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative—the purpose of fiction is not to replace life anymore than it is meant to support some political movement or ideology. All fiction reinscribes the problematic past in terms of the present, and, if it is significant at all, reckons with it instead of simply making it palatable or pretty. What aesthetic is adequate to the Holocaust, or to the recent tragedy in Haiti? Narrative is not exculpatory—it is in fact about culpability, about recognizing human suffering and responsibility, and so examining what is true in us and about us. If we’re to say anything important, we require an art less facile, and editors willing to seek it.

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest