Word: constructionistic
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...their legal ability and ethical fitness. Last week, however, Bork's opponents in the Democrat-controlled Senate were moving toward a frank confrontation over ideology. Michigan Democrat Carl Levin is talking the language of senatorial prerogative when he says, "The President has a right to look for a strict constructionist; the Senate has a right to look for a fair constructionist...
...selecting a leading conservative jurist, the President hopes to shape the legal balance into the next century. -- Bork' s personal style and temperament are seemingly at odds with his strict constructionist philosophy. -- The seven Democratic presidential contenders fire mostly blanks in a Firing Line debate. -- A Texas boxcar turns into a grisly coffin...
...wonder whether the Attorney General has considered the kind of genie that can rise from the constructionist bottle. Strict adherence might have prevented his boss from making war in Grenada. Keeping the CIA's favorite secrets would be impossible. There could be no federal minimum wage. The Air Force could not be funded (the Constitution mentions only an Army and a Navy), and the FCC, if it existed at all, could not assign television channels...
...Connor does not recall her vote on the pro-life memorial (it was not officially recorded). She has solid, if legalistic, explanations for her other two votes. A strict constructionist, she does not believe that her family-planning measure could be interpreted to include abortion. The bond-issue rider, she believed, was not germane to the bill and O'Connor as Arizona senator therefore violated the state constitution...
...passport powers and strict standards for cotton dust and lead in factories) and to states (on televising trials and the double celling of prisoners). Moreover, the Justices tended to resist the temptation to write broad new rules. In short, the court has been just the sort of strict-constructionist, nonactivist body that Ronald Reagan likes...