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[edit] Leges is plural
Leges is the nominative (and vocative) plural of lex (see: http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Latin/Grammar/Latin-Declension_3rd.html). Being a motto, the use was probably intended to be vocative. Furthmore the plural use makes sense, at the time DX was founded a law degree was an LL.B.: legum baccalaris (i.e. Bachalor of Laws) The morgawr 15:34, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
I guess you are correect. I should have known better since I am somewhat familiar with Latin grammar. However, the term leges has been interpreted as just "law" by the fraternity in recent years.--Shada501 21:47, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
As a note of interest, it has been pointed out to me that leges could be used to mean THE Law i.e. the totality of individual laws. My latin isn't good enough to know if that's valid usage, so I suggest we keep it as laws until we can be sure The morgawr 17:39, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Preamble introduced on 4/27
Do we really need the preamble in its own section? It is already listed in the first paragraph. Perhaps backing out the second preamble, and blockquoting the first one would be better... or backing out the first one. It just seems... jammed in there. --Gookey |T|C| 27 April 2006
[edit] Better Coat of Arms?
Does anyone have a picture of the coat of Arms, one that doesn't have so much gray in it? The version in http://www.deltachi.org/quarterly/summer_fall_03/summer_fall_03.pdf.pdf has a buff border.
[edit] The Coke Quote
On the Sir Edward Coke page, the quote is written as "The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law." Does anyone know which is more correct?
>The quote you listed is what Coke seems to have actually said. Legal historians, however, tend to use the phrasing from the article without quotations to stress the content of the idea (it was fairly radical at the time) The morgawr 15:23, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Chapters Order
May I ask what kind of order the list of chapters is currently in? If they are in any kind of order I would recommend noting that on the page, otherwise I would recommend maybe listing them in order of when they were founded.
[edit] Chapters
The University of Michigan chapter is not on the chapters list. If I recall correctly, it was one of the very first expansions.
[edit] Famous Alumni
Out of curiosity -- how did Robert Todd Lincoln and William Jennings Bryan become Delta Chi? They were both long out of college (and famous) by 1890 when DX was founded. Benjamin Harrison had already been President by that time, and was also in Phi Delta Theta, but the article on him explains why he counts. What's the story on these other two? Honoraries or something like that? --SuperNova |T|C| 08:54, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
I would say that Robert Todd Lincoln and William Jennings Bryan could have been initiated as alumni. Also, until 1922, Delta Chi was a professional fraternity, and members could therefore be in different undergraduate groups. --Gookey |T|C| 11 March 2006
