Word: existing
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...combined result of those trends is to make a travesty of what used to be called plain common sense. To be sure, charlatanism and dishonesty exist, and their victims deserve the law's protection. Yes, bigotry is inexcusable, and those who suffer by it, as well as others, are right to oppose it, backed by the full weight of law. Certainly job discrimination on the basis of sex, age or disability is not only morally unconscionable but illegal...
...just because rights exist, this does not mean it is the role of judges to enforce them. The institution of judicial review -- the power of unelected judges to overrule the democratic branches of government -- is a funny business. Judges do not have that power in other major democracies, and it is not explicitly authorized in the U.S. Constitution. It emerges, rather, from the structure of our government. As Justice John Marshall first reasoned in Marbury vs. Madison (1803): faced with a conflict between a law and a constitutional provision, judges must honor the Constitution. All government officials should...
...nothing in the constitutional structure of the government gives the Supreme Court authority to overrule the other branches on the basis of unwritten natural law. Judicial review, a bold claim at first, is now so well established that we've come to feel that a right doesn't exist unless a judge can enforce it. But enforcing a right means interpreting it, and exclusive power to interpret a concept as vague as natural law should not be given to the unelected branch of government. The job of protecting our nonconstitutional rights belongs to those who most directly "deriv((e)) their...
...most important people at any magazine is the advertising sales director. It's not just that the director supervises selling the ad pages that help us to exist and prosper, but the good ones -- and TIME has been blessed with a string of them -- must have an instinctive feel for the editorial purpose of the magazine and for its role in the marketplace. That's why I'm so pleased to have Cleary Simpson join my publishing team. She knows this magazine inside and out, and she's an accomplished strategic thinker...
...expressed, and none approach the disdain felt by those who stayed for those who left. "We cared for ourselves and proved our loyalty," says Nadyah al-Mudhaf, an investment banker. "The 'runners' wined and dined and discoed, and now they are back to treating us like we didn't exist. We love our rulers for all they have done for us economically, but they don't trust us enough to let us have a meaningful say in the running of our nation...