The phrase "abstract provisions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal, academic, or formal contexts to refer to general or theoretical rules or clauses that are not tied to specific instances.
Example: "The contract includes several abstract provisions that outline the general principles governing the agreement."
Alternatives: "general clauses" or "theoretical stipulations".
If formulated differently, their abstract provisions could subject the inequalities and indignities of late capitalism to withering attack.
There is no reason to deny that original understandings of a constitution's abstract provisions can also be highly relevant to later interpretations.
"[This law] will make life for non-traditional sexual orientation just simply hell and there will [be] no protection because at the moment the only protection is the law, and this law has very abstract provisions".
And, finally, modern constitutions tend to include very abstract, moral provisions limiting the powers of government bodies in significant ways.
On this view, constitutional interpretation must accommodate itself to previous attempts to interpret and apply the abstract rights provisions expressed in the constitution's text.
This is not to deny that deep controversy can also arise over the meaning and import of less abstract constitutional provisions.
Such "faint-hearted originalism" (Scalia 1989) may reduce, in the end, to a form of living constitutionalism.[19] Indeed, as we shall see in the next section, the role of judicial interpretations of abstract constitutional provisions is central to that prominent form of living constitutionalism which views constitutional interpretation as a form of common-law reasoning.
In our conceptual design of software-defined IoT cloud systems, such gateways abstract resource provisioning and governance through well-defined APIs and they can be composed at different levels, creating virtual runtime topologies for IoT cloud applications.
And importantly for the living constitutionalist who does not wish to surrender to the charge that she counsels infidelity to the constitution, these changes can occur without the constitution having changed, as would be true were a process of formal amendment successfully invoked and an abstract, rights provision removed from the constitution.
For example, this originalist might say that the presumption in favor of retrieval can be defeated when there is a discernible and profound sea change in popular views on some important issue of political morality implicated by an abstract constitutional provision.
Despite the importance of such debates, and unless the context indicates otherwise, our focus in discussing constitutional interpretation will be exclusively on abstract civil rights provisions.
