‘High’ indicates something that surpasses everything else: high command, high treason, high society, High Court… In language that is now obsolete, the higher chamber of a bicameral parliament is made up of persons of distinction, then representatives of infranational entities, whilst the lower chamber represents the people and is set in place by universal suffrage. Primary law of the European Union does not use the adjective ‘high’, with just two exceptions.
The High Authority was...