Publisher Egmont's decision to abridge AA Milne's stories for a new app has caused a backlash, including a derisory leader in the Times and a debate on the Today programme.
Yet the creators of the movie were forced to drop plans to distribute it via cable television for fear of stiff fines and long jail terms.The reason is that Congress has in fact passed a number of laws that abridge the freedom of certain groups to say certain things, in certain ways and at certain times about wait for it politicians.
This says that "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens".
The series is usually described as a chain of 12 links (nidanas, "causes"), though some texts abridge these to 10, 9, 5, or 3.
It forbids the states to abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, or to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
The modern historian of this war is in much the same position as the ancient: he cannot do much more than translate, abridge, or enlarge upon Thucydides.
The Constitution's 13th Amendment prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude; the 14th bars the application of any law that would abridge the "privileges and immunities" of U.S. citizens or deprive any person of "life, liberty, or property…without due process of law" or deny any person equal protection under the law; and the 15th guarantees the right of all U.S. citizens to vote.
Using the law to abridge freedom of speech is wrong, but retailers are not the government.
Al-Suyūṭī was a compiler of genius rather than an original writer, but it is precisely his ability to select and abridge that makes the books useful.
Mark reluctantly agrees to abridge our drifting experiment.
