Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ninth Amendment--which declared that the rights enumerated in the first eight amendments were not to be construed as the only legitimate ones. And many Constitutional commentators throughout the antebellum period continued to take for granted that the intent of the Constitution could be garnered only by examining the broad phrases in the preamble...
Judge Bork and his proponents in the Reagan Administration now pretend to look to history, only to destroy its promise. Although the Bill of Rights has in general performed admirably, the fact that it is neither entirely broad and general (like the preamble) nor entirely specific and detailed, subjects it to misuse by those such as Bork. Our only recourse now, almost 200 years after the Bill of Right's ratification, is to deny those who would misuse it the chance to sit on Dike's throne...
...magic touch, it seems to work just as well in print as on TV. In Fatherhood, Cosby sympathized with every dad who has ever been pestered by a child for money or got Soap on a Rope as a Father's Day present. Time Flies has the same broad appeal, with wry, wistful comments on every middle-aged trauma from the onset of love handles around the midsection to the embarrassment of searching for glasses that are sitting on top of one's head...
...What struck me most is that there was broad support from all areas of campus," said Nick Salvatore, an American history professor involved in the faculty movement. "A lot of faculty who may not have been politically active in the last 10 years feel it's worth writing letters" in support of the union, he said...
...Bork has corrected this flaw in his thinking, he has relaced it with a dogmatic faith in "the jurisprudence of Original Intent." This theory would bind America to the specific 18th Century values (allegedly) held by specific 18th Century gentleman. Lost in Bork's theoretical shuffle would be the broad guarantees the Framers actually bothered to write into the Constitution and the Bill of Rights...