To see such killers as representatives of a religion, and to reduce a complex picture to their preferred caricature, would be to reward their crimes just as circumscribing the principle of free speech would be to bow to their medieval fantasies.
Lockeans say the Constitution, properly construed and enforced by the judiciary, circumscribes the majoritarian principle by protecting all rights that are crucial to individual sovereignty.
Margins can be either circumscribed or not circumscribed.
[Excerpts, Page A16.] She added that "we necessarily reject the government's assertion that separation of powers principles mandate a heavily circumscribed role for the courts in such circumstances".
But traditionally, liberal conceptions of justice have viewed democratic mechanisms of collective choice as essential but highly circumscribed by the constitutional provisions that principles of justice support.
Although the new rules could be applied only in carefully circumscribed situations, they stepped back from a principle dating back to the Nuremberg War Crimes trials, when American judges wrote an international code of medical ethics.
Here is a short preview of our findings: we can prove, in a well circumscribed formal setting, that the Pareto combination preserves Bellman's principle of optimality (Theorem 3.3).
This approach was deemed to be in keeping with the principle that "the broad language of the anti-fraud provisions" should not be "circumscribed by fine distinctions and rigid classifications," such as those that prevailed under the common law.
What has heretofore been a carefully circumscribed exception to the prohibition against searches without warrants has now been inflated into a comprehensive principle of freedom from all the requirements of the Fourth Amendment.
Rawls initially stated his problem in terms of rational decision theory, according to which any rational agent, circumscribed by various factors in an idealized choosing situation or original position, would choose his two favored principles of justice.
The intimacy is circumscribed.
