Word: constructionistic
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...federal power he had deplored in opposition. He recalled that a decade earlier, in Washington's Cabinet, Jefferson had seemed like a man who knew he was destined to inherit an estate--in this case, the presidency--and didn't wish to deplete it. In fact, Jefferson, the strict constructionist, freely exercised the most sweeping powers as President. Nothing in the Constitution, for instance, permitted the Louisiana Purchase. Hamilton noted that with rueful mirth...
...don’t mean to make some sort of strict constructionist argument that we can’t violate the “framer’s intent” in updating copyright law or that somehow its fundamental purpose is sacred or inalterable. At the same time, we cannot tolerate the surreptitious enactment of additions to that code that alter it in powerful but inextensible ways just so the old business models of the creative industries are not put at risk. We must instead recognize that sharing and free access to information are fundamental features of the technological...
...setting up military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, the fight with Congress over releasing information about Dick Cheney's energy task force and ending the American Bar Association's role in rating potential judicial nominees. More important, they point out, he's not a legal activist but a strict constructionist--one of the sacred judicial tenets of conservatives. "He was ruling on the existing statute, not legislating," a conservative Washington lawyer says of the Texas abortion ruling. "We've complained about legislating from the bench for years. We can't now start doing it ourselves." On affirmative action, top White...
Loury’s “middle way” between ignoring and accounting for race is insightful and well-defended. He is critical of the constructionist argument for the absence of race-consciousness in policy debates. According to this view, differential treatment of individuals of different races, even if the results are positive, violates the American principle of individual autonomy (every person must be treated equally regardless of personal characteristics like race or gender). Loury contrasts the “good” of individual autonomy with the “good” of attempting...
...Philadelphia - where Gore has been told that a huge Democratic margin is vital to taking the state as a whole - Gore actually reminded a black congregation that way back when, "strict constructionist" meant Dred Scott and three-fifths of a person, and that of course he much preferred Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas. And that was after he reminded them that everyone has to choose between "good and evil...