I am grateful to Kimberley Burns, Devin Stauffer, Micah Watson, and above all the two anonymous BJHP reviewers, for their valuable feedback and criticisms. I would also like to thank the Catholic University of America's Institute for Human Ecology for a generous fellowship that allowed me to complete this paper. No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s). Notes 1 The regulation of politics means primarily the regulation of laws: 2 T, 3.