If there is one fact of life, it is that professors, editors, and grammar police like to complain about everything that has to do with grammar including proper and clear usage of the lexicographical systematization of appellations, correct use of punctuation; proper use of pluralizations, and many conventions of writing, such as smoothness of transition and style; and some (especially the picky ones) also complain about sports, politics, and how others eat their waffles (you know who you are!) but one thing that they all complain about is the run-on sentence—and we here at The Rambler couldn’t agree more that the run-on sentence is an abomination to all good grammar but before we get into that run-on sentences have to be defined for those who somehow don’t know what they are and if you don’t know you probably failed that grammar class freshman year unless you are in the current freshman class; who didn’t have to suffer through that class but anyway, a run-on sentence is a type of sentence (shocking, we know) in which two or more independent clauses are joined together with either improper punctuation or no punctuation at all and now we hope you understand why experts are so critical of this type of sentence which is very detrimental to good writing and can make the writing done by even very good and clear experienced writers very concerningly confusing and this is undesirable and we at The Rambler would never accept or tolerate a prospective writer that submitted something that has confusing content let alone run-on sentences and we asked Jim Run-on, the inventor of the run-on sentence, about what he thought of his creation he said “When I made this here invention I ‘spected it to be one o’ them quiet ‘uns but like ever’thing else I got carried away just like that time I tole the wife I’d only go fishin’ for an hour but then some o’ my buddies done showed up and we got distracted and they was gettin’ some good—” he was then dragged away by his wife who was profusely apologizing that he was doing it again and to just ignore him and that it was alright but anyway run on sentences are also almost as bad as articles that conclude with a new argument.
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” - Thomas Paine This attitude toward government as being anywhere between a necessary evil to an intolerable one comes from a reflection on how the American revolution was fought not for government, but for liberty from a tyrannical rule, with the establishment of the American republic being only a means to that end. This understanding of government as a means to liberty is foundational to the United States, yet is a philosophy fading with time. I will not go as far as to say that the Founding Fathers disliked the idea of government in general, but they had a comprehensive understanding of the imperfection of all human governing systems. Although the concepts of law, hierarchy, and authority are divine, government is a human institution, which means it is imperfect. No matter how many protections and precautions one takes when founding such an establishment, there will always be...
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