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In its best-known just-so story, the demiurge of modern decline was Woodrow Wilson, who in his pre-Presidential days, when he was a political scientist, argued that the Constitution wasn't engraved national scripture but a flexible living document open to interpretation and amendment as American democracy evolved.
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In 1982 the Rules Commission rewrote the laws to incorporate the interpretations and amendments.
JTW and QYL contributed to data interpretation and manuscript amendment.
The Act's provisions have been colored by numerous judicial interpretations and Congressional amendments.
As late U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-Texas) said during impeachment hearings against President Nixon in 1974, it took a "process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision" for her to feel included in "We the People".
We believe that "A well regulated Militia....security of a free state" is crucial to the interpretation and implementation of the amendment and can't be ignored and trampled on by those who believe in an unfettered right to have guns.
The Telegraph story appeared well before last April's high court decision in the Cunneen case, which recast the definition of corrupt conduct under the Icac Act, so any "escape" from corruption findings had nothing to do with the changed legal interpretation and the subsequent legislative amendments.
I looked at the scholarship on the amendment's interpretation and ended up puzzled at the assurance with which advocates presented the evidence and their conclusions.
Even less deference is due silence in the wake of unsuccessful attempts to eliminate an offending interpretation by amendment.
The courageous reporting of the Post and the New York Times – coupled with the favourable Supreme Court rulings on publication of the Pentagon Papers – were landmarks for the interpretation of First Amendment rights and the freedom of the press.
If he thinks that's the correct interpretation of the amendment, then our only recourse is to pass another amendment overriding it (not going to happen).
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