Although it may seem that every aspect of the cases has been thoroughly debated in the press, there has been little discussion of one vital element: the original source of constitutional doctrine on which affirmative action is based.
Indeed, the Supreme Court of that State seem at one time to have made a nearer approach to the doctrine on which this action must rest, than the courts of this State have ever done.
As Robert Fox has already argued on Cif, the interventionist doctrine on which Blair relied was "a mishmash of half-baked notions".
The basic doctrine on which his theory depends is that the whole is exactly the same as all of its parts taken together, from which it follows that whatever preserves the whole preserves the parts.
Israel's operation in Gaza is designed not only to stop Hamas's rockets but to shore up a doctrine on which Israel thinks its safety must still be based.At Camp David in 2000 Israel and the Palestinians discovered that even with goodwill it is hard to agree terms.
As his first principle, Bhartrihari rejects a doctrine on which the realism of Mimamsa and Nyaya had been built the view that there is a kind of perception that is nonconceptualized and that places persons in direct contract with things as they are.
Still, Falwell and his pastors seemed to have left behind some of the Know-Nothing attitudes of the Protestant countryside — their anti-Catholicism, at least, having been rendered down to the hone of doctrine on which Sunday-school students cut their theological teeth.
One is to embrace epiphenomenalism, a doctrine on which the mental, while caused by the physical, exerts no "downward" causal influence in return.
So understood, the relational equality ideal becomes a version of the sufficiency doctrine (on which, see section 6.1 of this entry).
The Supreme Court, while it has never ruled directly on this particular linkage of funding to a congressional condition, has had a series of rulings dealing with the doctrine on which Prof. Greenfield relied, but the results tend to fall all across a wide spectrum of allowing or disallowing the linkage.
