Brightwell Bros.
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Ah interesting, I knew it was a phrase that got used a lot in relation to the American constitution and state rights but I hadn't realized it had an earlier coinage! You'd think the red shirts would know this?!Yes but Alexis De Tocqueville first used it, in a study of American democracy published in 1835.
Not only do you have to be an expert on subjects such law, accounting, geopolitics and history to be a City fan these days, you also have to be a philosopher.
Descartes said "I think, therefore I am". He might have amended that these days to "I can't think, therefore I am a red-shirt fan".