Rita found the procedures here simultaneously alien and familiar. The history and politics of this time line had diverged from her own almost three centuries ago: some of the forms and language of the Commission sounded like congressional procedure, but other things kept her on edge. The Commonwealth had purged their legal code of Latin jargon while the United States still clung to it. And the Declaration of Democracy that everybody recited was straightforward, couched in modern language. “We create this nation anew on the basis of equality and fraternity, to collectively exercise our liberty
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