"Our longstanding approach to the open carry debate has been to comply with local laws and statutes in the communities we serve," said Zack Hutson, a company spokesman.
The Council also examines subsidiary legislation and statutes in force on 9 January 1970.
Of the letter to the president, Ms. Schiffer said, "We think it misses that what we are doing is really interpreting two complicated and interrelated statutes in a way that protects both the environment and jobs".
So too with federal law: Prior to 1954, the Court had struck down just 77 federal statutes in a century-and-a-half of jurisprudence; in the 50-odd years since, it's overturned more than 80.
Quaint language and interesting historical associations are no justification for preserving obsolete statutes in a mummified state.
Judges are required to interpret statutes in a manner that gives "effect to the intent and will of Parliament".
In the nineteen-nineties, however, the Court — led by the conservative Justices Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas — began to challenge congressional statutes in an effort to limit the power of the federal government.
It begins: The Department of Corrections will carry out the punishment of death, as defined by and according to state statute, in a timely and efficient manner.
The appeals court engaged in "freelancing," Solicitor General Clement's brief said, by "usurping the agency's role of construing and filling in an ambiguous statute".
Then in 2010 the Spanish Constitutional Court unilaterally revoked and rewrote crucial sections of the statute in a process that the Catalan government believes was procedurally dubious.
The caption: "Don't mess with my statute," in a play on words, on the French statute and statue.
