Word: upholding
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...vote on account of their already established ideological preferences. On the Republican side of the aisle, principled partisans who aren't also wealthy tend to derive their conservatism from religious fundamentalism. Like characters in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, these social conservatives revel in Bush's pledge to uphold "traditional values" by legislative fiat. Their ideology of government-mandated morality includes, among other things, rights for the unborn but not for all the born...
...such corrupt practices reach into other states. While senators argued that errors in judgement are not good enough reasons to force someone to resign, a judge, especially a Supreme Court justice, should be held to a higher standard. Members of the judicial branch of government are entrusted to uphold the rights and principles of the people, and because of this, they are accountable on a far more philosophical level than the average American...
...possibility that Dick Cheney's retirement package seems a tad overgenerous for a CEO who, by some reckonings, may have weakened the company. If you criticize welfare mothers for irresponsibility and laziness and immorality, on the other hand, you are not waging class warfare; you are simply trying to uphold the American virtues of thrift and ambition...
...which Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg '74 sought to defend, attempted to ban the horrific procedure in which the baby's brain is extracted from its skull after the baby's limbs are torn from its body. Bush has promised that, if elected, he will appoint justices who would uphold a state's ability to pass such...
...Bush court would uphold what our founding fathers wanted--a country in which the rights of the individual were upheld, and one where states and local governments had jurisdiction over their people. A Bush court would protect the rights of individuals. Bush's appointees would uphold a strict interpretation of the Constitution, not excepting certain freedoms, such as religion, while upholding others, such as privacy, as has been typical of Clinton appointees. Bush would be a president who maintains that the people know what is best for the people and that no one needs a government dictating every facet...