comity
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Comity — courtesy, from the Latin comitas, as Cato the Younger might have said — is the last thing filibusters are meant to promote.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2021
Comity only goes so far, and words have not always matched actions.
From Washington Times • Apr. 1, 2019
“Divisiveness sells. Comity doesn’t sell,” Mr. Baker said.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2018
Comity reigns in part because Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hammer out common positions before every meeting in the Situation Room.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2017
The Fourteenth Amendment is treated along with such miscellaneous topics as "Direct Taxation," "Copyrights," "Insular Cases," "Interstate Comity," and "Labor Legislation."
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing comity
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
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