Paraphrases

 This isn't a paraphrase, it's an article from a periodical called The Nineteenth Century, which is online at archive.org , but the volume is so thick that it's hard for Tennyson fans to navigate to this article. Sir James Knowles was a writer himself, his best known book is about King Arthur. He was a personal friend of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and he wrote this just after Tennyson died. ----------------------------------- pg 164  from the periodical The Nineteenth Century , Jan. 1893.  Aspects of Tennyson by James Knowles II (A Personal Reminiscence)  If in the following pages I can contribute a few touches to the portrait of Lord Tennyson which his contemporaries alone can paint, my object in writing them will be accomplished. Of Tennyson the Poet his Poems will remain a 'monument more lasting than brass' to the remotest future. But of the man himself 'in his habit as he lived' the likeness can only be portrayed by those who knew him personally, and only ...

  Federalist No. 81 - The Judicial Branch will have limited power, and won't eliminate trial by jury       paraphrased into modern English by Alexander Hamilton, June 1788 To: the people of New York, Let's get back to how judicial authority is divided up among the different courts, and how the different courts relate to each other.  The Constitution says, 'The judicial [ legal ] part of the United States will be settled in one supreme court, and as many inferior courts [ lesser courts that serve under the Supreme Court ] as Congress might add from time to time.' I doubt anyone will disagree that there should be one ultimate court making final decisions. We've explained the reasons for setting it up this way elsewhere, and the reasons are too obvious to need repeating here. The only question is whether the judicial system should be its own distinct branch of government, or whether it should be included as part of the legislative branch. The criticism made he...