Mr Tsipras has been bashing Germany for failing to honour past war reparations obligations in full.
Senior politicians are facing immense pressure to honour past commitments to referendums.
His win owes less to his record than to voters' wishes to see him honour past promises.
Jefferson favoured a pro-French version of neutrality, arguing that the Franco-American treaty of 1778 obliged the United States to honour past French support during the war for independence, and that the French Revolution embodied the "spirit of '76" on European soil.
All of these countries share a single mission: to see to it that rich countries honour past commitments, and to offer alternatives to their proposals in future.Sleeping giants awakenEven the most prodigious grumblings and stallings of Brazil, India, Mexico and their cohorts may soon be put to shame.
And so the macabre climate dance continues: the developed world still wants to take on some kind of targets, while the poorer nations point out that richer countries have failed to honour past pledges, both on emission cuts and to hand over money to help them.
Some seem to admire indiscriminately whatever has been long preserved, without considering that time has sometimes co-operated with chance; all perhaps are more willing to honour past than present excellence; and the mind contemplates genius through the shades of age, as the eye surveys the sun through artificial opacity.
Committee members – honouring the past glories of Whittingdale chairmanship – bang on about public servants and transparency.
Because the longer we keep protecting the haves over the have-nots and honouring the past while destroying the future, the worse this debt crisis will get.
The Welsh experience is also one that gives a lot of time to honouring the past, the present and the future.
Madeline McCloud travelled through the night from central Florida to join those flocking to Selma, saying she was both honouring the past and teaching young people about the importance of protecting civil rights.
