Knowing your Left from your Right


	Knowing your Left from your Right

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3-10-2007 5:37 PM

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How did "left" and "right" come to represent the ends of the
political spectrum that they do? --Lisa Martinovic, Lafeyette,
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The Oxford English Dictionary explains it this way: "This use
originated in the French National Assembly of 1789, in which the
nobles as a body took the position of honour on the President's
right, and the Third Estate sat on his left. The significance of
these positions, which was at first merely ceremonial, soon became
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