Word: straightjacketed
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...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...
...screenplay, adapted by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee from their play of the same name, sounds like a third-grade primer on Constitutional Law, replete with metaphors for an eight-year-old. "You can't turn the law into a straightjacket," feisty liberal Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau) tells arch-conservative bench-mate Ruth Loomis (Jill Clayburgh). "It must be a suit of clothes you can move around in." With this profound thought as a guideline, the movie dashes madly from issue to issue, like a tourist with an hour to spend on all of the national monuments...