In addition, the US Supreme Court held that when the Florida court rooted its arguments in state law, it must have accepted what the legislature intended.There are two problems with this.
The visual vocabulary of courts - rooted in Babylonian, Egyptian, Classical, and Renaissance iconography - provides a transnational symbol of government, and courts have become obligatory facets of good governance.
Whereas the American system is based on the democratic idea that citizens even criminal ones can make decisions about their own fate, the British courts are rooted in royal traditions of clemency.
Legal experts say much of the consternation here over what many consider rough treatment in the news media and the courts is rooted in a general unfamiliarity with an American justice system that differs profoundly — in procedure, tone and philosophy — from the French model.
If you want to start a new court, detach rooted pieces in the spring.
Israel says its legal argument, which appears in at least two cases pending before the country's highest court, is rooted in security concerns that have grown since the January 2006 election of Hamas to run the Palestinian Authority.
Harvard law professor Michael Klarman, who has written two histories of the high court, said the fact that the fight over the health-care law is playing out according to the standard Republican vs. Democrat script — the same script as the 2000 election fight — has eroded the idea that the GOP-appointed court is rooted in restraint and precedent-based impartiality.
It may be small comfort to read a court decision rooted in the desire to prevent another Newtown-style massacre from happening at a time when the President of the United States is eager to listen to a figure from beyond the lunatic fringe like Alex Jones, who claims that the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, never happened at all.
The court is rooted in mid-19th-century reforms meant to protect federal contractors from an increasingly powerful federal government.
Since seizing power, General Musharraf has railed against the corruption that became a hallmark under both former prime ministers, and he has set up special courts to root out corrupt government and banking officials, who have ruined the country's finances.
Second-order regulation leans heavily on the courts to root out those bad rules.
