Word: interpretations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruling on capital punishment, Brennan said, the court sometimes goes too far in trying to discern the intentions of the Constitution's 18th-century framers. He said the court should more actively interpret the law to bring about effects that benefit society...
Judges must use the original intent of the founding fathers as their guiding principle when they interpret the Constitution, the U.S. Solicitor General said on September 5 at a symposium in Langdell Hall entitled, "Constrasting Approaches to the interpretation of the United States Constitution...
...next stage in the process -- an attempt by American negotiators to explain to their Soviet counterparts what the letter means -- will be complicated by a similar dispute in Washington. State is trying to interpret the letter in a way that leaves the negotiators with more latitude, while Defense protests and obstructs every inch of the way. The Soviets, who have been complaining about not knowing whom to listen to in the cacophony coming out of Washington, will be all the more confused...
...officials refused to indicate how they will interpret the language, "damaging to the United States," when determining whether scholars can acknowledge agency sponsorship of their work. The possibility for broad interpretation of the clause makes it "difficult to see how far the ball has been advanced," Shattuck said...
...What you have learned in the doctoral experience is to become a generalist in understanding how things have changed. This generalist mentality and an understanding of what history can do allows us to interpret the events and history of a company," says Allen, who got his Ph.D. at Wisconsin. "In a nutshell, history is a way of thinking...