Word: argumentation
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: In another important separation of powers case, Supreme Court Justices heard arguments on the Constitutionality of the line-item veto. Long a Republican cause, a line-item veto finally passed Congress last year with President Clinton's support. But a federal judge struck down the measure earlier this year because in allowing the President to strike specific items from Congressional bills the measure places too much power in the Executive Branch. Lawyer Alan Morrison told justices Tuesday that a line-item veto would allow the President to distort Congress's intentions simply by picking and choosing what...
Campus activist and social studies concentrator Jedediah S. Purdy '97 said that his thesis on Michel de Montaigne "proposed that [Montaigne's] essays form a specifically literary style of moral argument that aims to reshape the reader's moral imagination...
...Albert, the upbeat NBC sportscaster known as the voice of the New York Knicks, has been indicted on charges of assault and sodomy. His accuser, a 41-year-old female friend from Vienna, Va., claims that Albert viciously bit her several times on the back during a Feb. 12 argument in his Ritz-Carlton hotel room in Washington, D.C. Albert then allegedly forced the woman to perform oral sex, according to the indictment. Albert was in town for a match between the Knicks and the Washington Bullets in nearby Landover, Md. In a statement, the sportscaster said the charges against...
...fact, the revisionist argument reminds me of a celebrated case that happened several years ago at Cambridge University in England. A student taking his exams called over a proctor and demanded that he be provided with "cakes and ale." When the perplexed instructor refused, the student produced a copy of the 400-year-old Latin Laws of Cambridge, which entitled students to cakes and ale during exams. The student was brought Pepsi and burgers, which were accepted as modern equivalents, but he was later fined five pounds for having neglected to wear his sword...
...worn a sword because the rationales for those laws no longer applied. In other words, along with the swordwearing statute is an understood rationale: Students must wear swords because swords are essential accouterments for a gentleman and are necessary for self-defense. Since the rationales no longer hold, the argument would go, the law need not be enforced. But that's just not the way it works. No matter their justifications, laws remain laws and rights remain rights until they are repealed or amended based on new sensibilities...