Posted by Eugene Volokh: "The Government Has Collapsed" can have very different meanings. The goal of many emerging parliamentary democracies, I think, is for citizens to be able to say "The government has collapsed. Now, which movie do you want to go see tomorrow?," rather than "The government has collapsed; what street are the tanks coming down?" (or even "The government has collapsed; those 100,000 protesters on the main square did a great job").
I much hope that [1]the Estonian government's collapse is of the (say) modern Western European variety. (Thanks to [2]InstaPundit for the pointer.) References 1. http://www.publiuspundit.com/?p=719 2. http://instapundit.com/ _______________________________________________ Volokh mailing list [email protected] http://highsorcery.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volokh
