I said I was sorry that he had been offended by the mash-up, but that I was offended by systematic attempts to suppress the minority vote in a democratic system predicated on one person-one vote, and that I would continue to challenge students in class to think about such things.
On the one hand it is a system predicated on and requiring case-based reasoning and judgement, to ensure that funding decisions are based upon individual patient circumstances [ 15].
To become a high-ranking government official one had to figure out how to succeed within a system predicated on a peculiar mixture of socialist and libertarian ideology, rampant institutionalised corruption and brutal thuggery.
This must be a carefully calibrated approach so will likely have to be a system predicated on the applicant's skills and qualifications; the need for those skills in the economy; and their economic context.
What was once a statutory system predicated on ensuring the best use of land has become, in Colenutt's and many other experts' eyes, solely about safeguarding the profits of those who want to develop that land.
Sansom does, though, give us a broad view of politics - Tudor housing to rival Rachman, Dickensian prisons, a sewage-glutted Thames, beggars in gutters, conspiracies at court and a political system predicated on birth not merit, intrigue not intelligence.
