BY FROMA HARROP “In the feudal system,” The Oxford English Dictionary says, a vassal is “one holding lands from a superior on conditions of homage and allegiance.” The system lives on in modern American politics, forsooth in changed form. No longer is it local lords providing military support to a king in return for grants […]
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