Cranmer had been a Cambridge scholar (he had held a lectureship in Biblical studies) and a diplomat, before being plucked by Henry VIII to be archbishop, and he almost certainly did not imagine that he was writing one of the great, abiding works of English literature, what the historian Diarmaid MacCulloch calls "one of a handful of texts to have decided the future of a world language".
I heard different renditions of these core anarchist views from law abiding working people repeated over and over again as they attempted to explain how they live, work and love.
Omar Sy plays Samba, an illegal in Paris who is picked up by the immigration authorities and faces deportation, despite 10 years of blameless law-abiding work as a kitchen porter.
Most have been law-abiding, working members of the community.
This abiding silence about work isn't just a sidelines phenomenon.
Law-abiding individuals who work with large amounts of cash accommodate the requirement without any problems.
Finally, if we want low-income men to be marriageable, employable and law-abiding, we should work to reduce incarceration rates.
Nevertheless, it was symptomatic of Hamilton's abiding frustration at working alongside the most potent authority figure in all of American history.
"The overwhelming majority of American Airlines employees at our J.F.K. terminal and throughout our system are honest, law-abiding individuals who work hard every day to take care of our customers," the airline said.
A characteristic "Nativity of the Virgin" by Pietro Lorenzetti is rightly included in the exhibition to illustrate the abiding power these works exerted over later local artists, as is a lovely "Madonna and Child" (from Pisa) by Gentile da Fabriano.
We are coming here as law-abiding people to work," said Sameh, who parks cars near a shopping mall in suburban Maryland and was the 50th in line at the crowded immigration office this week.
