Sentences with phrase «original meaning of the law»

That this interpretation often did violence to the original meaning of the Law, that Jesus» own course of action on occasion was opposed to the Law, is a different matter, and is not inconsistent with his belief that he found in the Law the will of God.

Gorsuch observed that discovery of the original meaning of the law as enacted — and of the Constitution — is not an «ideological thing,» and that all judges and justices are originalists and literalists of a sort, employing and deferring to original textual meanings, whether of a statute or of the Constitution itself.

Not exact matches

Believing, however, that the positive law should be interpreted by judges according to the original meaning of the lawgiver does not make one a legal positivist!

As enough to leave no possibility of doubting the terrible meaning of this ancient law, it is reproduced in another passage — first, the original, absolute requirement, «All that openeth the womb is mine,» and, appended, the merciful codicil, «All the first - born of thy sons thou shalt redeem.»

There were other issues too: The way the accounts of Israel's monarchy contradicted one another, the way Jesus and Paul quoted Hebrew Scripture in ways that seemed to stretch the original meaning, the fact that women were considered property in Levitical Law, the way both science and archeology challenged the historicity of so many biblical texts, and the fact that it was nearly impossible for me to write a creative retelling of Resurrection Day because each of the gospel writers tell the story so differently, sometimes with contradictory details.

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The key shift was in the 1970s, when the Court veered away from strict interpretation of the original meaning of the Convention and adopted instead a policy of interpreting the Convention creatively and, through case law, extending its scope way beyond traditional ideas of political freedom into questions of economic and social policy.

McMahon says the governor is proposing to elevate the minimum wage to the level of the median wage in many parts of the state, something he believes was not the intention of the original law, meant to regulate entry level jobs.

McMahon says the governor is proposing to elevate the minimum wage to the level of the median wage in many parts of the state, something he believes was not the intention of the original law, meant to regulate entry - level jobs.

I draw on quantitative and qualitative data, including an original data set of all federal Title IX complaints filed with the Department of Education since 1994, lawsuits that transformed the meaning of Title IX, and in - depth case studies of the law's application at Yale University and the University of California - Berkeley.

They're concerned the formal requests for «flexibility» Indiana and ten other states sent to the U.S. Department of Education don't do enough to address the socioeconomic and racial achievement gaps the original NCLB law was meant to close.

Speaking of Symphony of The Night as mentioned earlier, it's also hidden away on the UMD along with the wrinkly original Rondo of Blood, the problem being that the means to get the two games is horrifically obscure, and even if you break gaming law and check a walkthrough, it's still going to be a tough feat for the less adept of players to achieve.

As a result, re-codification is most often done only as part of an overall omnibus reform of an area of law on the merits where the interest in being able to track prior interpretive caselaw and determine the original meaning of a statute enacted long ago is at its lowest.

This would seem ridiculous (although the law may see it differently), as I could potentially change (in actual meaning, rather than just rewriting the same logic but with different terms) every line of code and it would cease to have anything to do with the original author.

Selections in the current issue, for example, range from «Laugh Track,» in which Boston University School of Law associate professor Jay D. Wexler studies the relative senses of humor of the justices of the Supreme Court, to «The Original Meaning of the 21st Amendment,» which examines recent Supreme Court cases involving wine sales across state lines, to «A Lawyer in Baghdad,» in which Brett H. McGurk shares insights acquired during five months as associate general counsel to the Coalition Provisional Authority.

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One is that most law professors are very able at teaching the casuistic (in its original, not pejorative, meaning) process which is legal analysis (and many other types of logical analysis) which process, for whatever reason, the students» undergraduate professors weren't able to adequately explain.

Near one of the mansion's four fireplaces, the cross-eyed governor had served decaffeinated coffee in beautiful old buffalo - themed china and asked Walters his thoughts on abortion, the death penalty, and whether he believed adhering to the actual language of the law and the original meaning of the Constitution.

When Justice Abella blessed, as a priest would, the constitutional right to strike, she undermined the rule of law and the separation of powers by going well beyond the original meaning of the constitutional provision at issue.

Sanford Levinson, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said Justice Thomas's position claims few adherents in the legal community — Not even Justice Antonin Scalia, who like Justice Thomas argues that the Constitution should be applied according to the original meaning of its text when ratified.

In some circumstances, such as where a structure was technically created but not funded or used in any transaction or activity, the original relationship and the structure can be rescinded, which means that the structure is treated as though it never existed as a matter of law.