[lentulusgracchus]

One defininition of perpetual I like is 'until terminated'.

That works for me.

One of the first things the social lice always try to do is to use weasel-wording and crisis management to turn perpetual consents into threshold consent, to take the People out of the play.

That's why lice love Supreme Court cases -- every case is a chance to create a threshold event.

With enough Supreme Court cases, you've created a thoroughly sanctioned and insulated government, and governmental class (or termite nest), possessing numbers of deemed threshold permissions with which to work its will on its hosts.

[WhiskeyPapa]

One defininition of perpetual I like is 'until terminated'.

That works for me.

But not for Robert E. Lee.

He indicated that the Union was perpetual unless changed by the whole people acting in convention.

And it wouldn't work for George Washington either. He indicated that the Constitution couldn't be changed without a genuine expression of the will of the whole people.

Walt

[Non-Sequitur]

Main Entry: per·pet·u·al
Pronunciation: p&r-'pe-ch&-w&l, -ch&l; -'pech-w&l
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English perpetuel, from Middle French, from Latin perpetuus uninterrupted, from per- through + petere to go to -- more at FEATHER
Date: 14th century

1 a : continuing forever : EVERLASTING b (1) : valid for all time (2) : holding (as an office) for life or for an unlimited time

Where do they get their definitions?