[Ads-l] free range; Irish Democracy (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED

Free range -- OED has 1912 for adj.

Topeka KS _Daily Commonwealth_ 17 Jun 1885 p 2 col 2 [newspapers.com]
"Free range cattle are fed nothing the year round, and it is strange that us grangers cannot make it, in any country where this is the case."

_Salina [KS] Daily Republican-Journal_ 2 Jul 1901 p. 2 col 1 [newspapers.com]
"The food the free range hen gets is just the thing for hot weather."

_Winnipeg Tribune_ 11 Jul 1902 p 7 col 3 [newspapers.com]
"Free range chickens get along very well on a feed morning and evening of grain of any kind ordinarily grown on the farm."

Irish Democracy -- not in OED

"Political scientists call this “Irish democracy,” the phenomenon by which the general members of a polity resist the mandates of their would-be rulers by simply refusing to comply with them."
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/428218/gun-control-laws-connecticut-california-new-prohibition-same-totalitarianism


_USA Today_ 24 Feb 2014 p a7 [proquest]
" This is more "Irish Democracy," passive resistance to government overreach."
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