It was a principled decision: but trouble flows as principles collide.
Brown's "mathematic" series used addition and multiplication as principles.
The knowledge, summarized as principles of scientific forecasting, is freely available at forecastingprinciples.com.
One of the ground rules the committee worked under was that any proposals would emerge as principles rather than rules.
The fears about "walled gardens" sometimes reflect concerns that are as much about business models as principles.
As principles go, they are generous to a fault, and that is the source of their strength.
Does it constrain government actors as stringently as principles of the written Constitution do, or less so?
This case raised extremely important legal issues, including the interpretation of a federal statute as well as principles of administrative law and, of course, states' rights.
This is important, because rules are not the same as principles, and from an ethical point of view, principles matter more.
Perhaps Kouchner has been telling himself what Vautrin tells Rastignac: "There are no such things as principles, there are only events".
According to this shared assumption, the way to find the real or the true Constitution is to identify the core values that the document and the precedents stand for, and to use these as principles to interpret the Constitution correctly.
