Sentences with phrase «drafter ever»

The episode coincides with the countdown to the June 2015 expiry of section 215 of the Patriot Act that allows carte blanche access to phone records and operates according to the US government's own «secret interpretation» of its terms, something apparently far more permissive than its drafters ever envisioned.

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The drafters of the voting system for its election tried to ensure that no party would ever have an overall majority, though it was assumed that unionist parties would be dominant.

Other conservatives think that the establishment clause should only prevent the government from preferring one denomination of Christianity over another denomination, even though the drafters of the constitution and courts ever since then have made clear that this was not the intent of the establishment clause.