Word: straightjacketed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rivlin is against a constitutional balanced budget amendment, an idea that has gained acceptance by many politicians. "You don't want to put government in a straightjacket," Rivlin says. "If you set a specific target, it's likely to be the wrong...
...blearily in morning classes, peering at a white expanse of notebook, the professor's voice floating invisibly above my bowed head. Immobile hours in front of black strings of print straightjacket my nerves. I walk out of the library dazed, moaning like a dead Boris Karloff, text-book scraps and computer paper fluttering from my mummified shell...
Andrew Kaufman '51, associate dean and Fairchild Professor of Law, also attacked original intent, although he said he could find no justification for judicial review. "There is no need to engage in a futile search for original intent or to straightjacket the Constitution in judicial, social, and philosophical theories," he said...
Andrew Kaufman '51, associate dean and Fairchild Professor of Law, also attacked original intent, although he said he could find no justification for judicial review. "There is no need to engage in a futile search for original intent or to straightjacket the Constitution in judicial, social, and philosophical theories," he said...
Andrew Kaufman '51, associate dean and Fairchild Professor of Law, also attacked original intent, although he said he could find no justification for judicial review. "There is no need to engage in a futile search for original intent or to straightjacket the Constitution in judicial, social, and philosophical theories," he said...