11.   Now it is the very polarisation of the two communities that appears to be driving the political process.

12.   President Bill Clinton paid a two-day visit to Northern Ireland with little expectation of achieving a breakthrough in the beleaguered political process.

13.   Rather, many different groups become active in the political process on a narrow range of issues relevant to their interests.

14.   Steps seen as draconian or unfair threaten to wreck the political process before it begins.

15.   That is that this is a case where the legal process and the political process have become entangled...

16.   The political process ensures that laws that unduly burden the States will not be promulgated.

17.   The political process has become coarsened.