When the British say they are "fair and just," the query immediately to mind is whether we are merely hearing repetitive defend rhetoric or are being enlightened by some self-assurance that the British not only believe what they say but can also evidence this self-assurance that they claim. Intellectually, the self-assurance boasts two separate qualities; fair and just notwithstanding the universal consensual assumption that the two represent the same value (yet are expressed in tautology). Fairness - from which fair emerged as both an adjective and a verb - is an inherent quality of the...