By his own account, the only serious intervention he made in the House of Commons was to table a tiny legislative amendment that would have revolutionised the western world - if it had been passed.
But his leadership, like so much else about England's powerful cricket, in which their fielding has been unexpectedly splendid, has resonated with calmness and a willingness to stick to the plan while making tiny, telling amendments to it.
There were many entries in the tiny-hands category, as in "Keep Your Tiny Hands Off Our First Amendment".
As one tiny piece of the sweeping Educational Amendments of 1972, Title IX was proposed by a determined group of women who thought it was wrong that schools could discriminate against girls and women just because they were female.
She also went after that old conservative villain Hollywood, saying, "They use these delicate, tiny, very talented celebrity starlets" for "their anti-Second Amendment causes".
The person behind the sex amendment was the seventy-nine-year-old leader of a tiny fringe organization called the National Woman's Party.
When the 1st Amendment was enacted, we were a nation of Protestants, with small Catholic and tiny Jewish minorities.
The tiny West African nation of Benin (on behalf of the UN's African Group) proposed an amendment to strike sexual minorities from the resolution.
The Democratic Green party, the main opposition group in Rwanda – which is tiny and has no seats in parliament – had its attempt to block the constitutional amendments rejected in the courts.
The Second Amendment does not say, "Shooting sports, being a desirable form of recreation to a tiny percentage of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear semiautomatic assault rifles, shall not be infringed".
