There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.