Don't forget the Roosevelts.

Or in the musical sphere, the Bachs - sometimes there actually is something there over and above the name.

I think that Bush has probably out the kibosh on the chances of any more of the Bush Dynasty making it to the White House for a long long time. But on the other side they seem to be lining up Chelsea Clinton for the future.

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Amendments - I'd have thought that it shouldn't be that hard to achieve a similar effect by limiting the range of amendments which can be attached to a bill in such a way as to exclude those kind. That is the normal way of dealing with this in most parliamentary systems, I believe.

Do it your way John, and it'd be quite possible for people to find they had voted for a bill meaning one thing, and then find that amendments had completely distorted it to mean something else which they were wholly opposed to.