Its appeal lies instead in its value as a "platform" upon which programmers can build their edifices of code.
As a by-product, and in the interstices between the sub-codes of this vast legislative edifice, Bentham's writings ranged across ethics, ontology, logic, political economy, judicial administration, poor law, prison reform, international law, education, religious beliefs and institutions, democratic theory, government, and administration.
The system works when you enter the edifice and scan a QR code.
The private heart of his palace concealed, like a genetic code, the principle that had given shape to the edifice and informed the state.
Given these realities, fairness and progressivity are necessarily less important to liberalism over the long run than simple dollar figures, and the American left actually has a long-run incentive to make the federal tax code less progressive, because only a broader base can keep the liberal edifice solvent in the long run.
They include places or people, events or edifices — whether Charlemagne or the Sacré-Coeur Basilica or the Civil Code or the sidewalk cafe — that over the centuries have become the objects of vexing, vying and often violent interpretations.
Its flagship edifice on Pall Mall used to be a club and still has that genteel air, although some of the dress code rules have relaxed.
Today Corcoran's edifice is the Renwick Gallery.
But the whole edifice now looks rickety.
