The biggest nationalist party in Northern Ireland, Sinn Féin, which won five seats in 2010, refuses to take the seats it wins in Westminster elections, on principle.
There can be no legitimacy in an election absent the principle of one person, one vote.
Phillip Hammond, the transport secretary who insisted during the election that universal principle surrounding child benefit must be protected, admitted the cabinet had agonised about the decision.
Margaret Thatcher, a grocer's daughter, stared down elites, union bosses, and communists to win three consecutive elections, establish conservative principles in Western Europe, and bring down the Iron Curtain," House Speaker John A. Boehner said in a statement.
What is needed now is not a narrow, technical ruling that puts speed ahead of justice and fails to recognize the centrality of sound elections to the principles imbedded in the federal Constitution.
Were Trump's nationalism anything more than self-serving theatrics, his associates would have rejected any suggestion of foreign assistance in the election on the principle that, hated or not, Hillary Clinton represented someone to whom they were bound by ties of citizenship.
But there is always something more relevant to elections than just principles and candidates.
He was replaced by Robert Bauer, a politically adept consummate Washington insider whose expertise is in campaign finance law -- in short, a man whose job is to win elections, not defend principles.
The choice and grouping of all samples were based on blind election and random principle.
Mr. Paul, a darling of the Tea Party movement, had been cruising to almost certain election on the lofty principles of smaller government and less spending.
