We are barely in the foothills of the 2015 general election battle, yet we are showing signs of exhaustion with the peaks still to come. The country seems to be suffering a severe dose of political palate fatigue, instead of the inspiration that the prospect of exercising a democratic choice should kindle.Yet amid the gloom there have since Christmas been three points of light provided by 2015 as the bringer of constitutional and political anniversaries – Magna Carta (1215); the summoning of what history has decided was the first English Parliament (1265); and the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Sir Winston Churchill (1965).At risk of wild oversimplification, they remind us of the importance of curbing over-mightiness through developing (albeit slowly and with many a setback) a