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Meese made a name for himself as a tough law-and-order prosecutor in San Diego. If implemented, though, his theory would undermine the rule of law and subvert social order across the land. It would allow citizens, officials and judges nationwide to ignore past High Court rulings and interpret the Constitution as they...
...Republicans, holding on to the majority could help protect the Reagan Revolution from paralysis for another two years, giving the party momentum as it heads into the '88 sweepstakes. Democrats would interpret a Republican defeat in the Senate as a sign of the public's dissatisfaction with Reagan's policies. An intransigent Democratic majority could thwart the Administration's legislative agenda, turning the President into a genuine lame duck and perhaps stealing some of the thunder from the Republicans in the contest to succeed Reagan...
...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...
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...