Wilson further argued against calls for a charter of rights in Australia, saying that would "circumvent parliamentary sovereignty" and transform judges from being interpreters of law to arbiters over public policy.
The courts power ultimately rests entirely on the public's acceptance of their role to be our final interpreters of law.
First of all, the legitimacy of his position under the law the ancient fundamental law of succession made him the interpreter of the law and the fount of justice in the state, not a capricious autocrat.
The interior minister accused the constitutional court of "ignoring the law" – by which he meant that the court, the ultimate interpreter of the law, was ready to take decisions in defiance of the government's wishes, as it again did this week.
Mr. Bradbury defended the work of his office as the government's most authoritative interpreter of the law.
Instead of seeking an orthodox education, such as that offered at al-Azhar University in Cairo, and passing into the official hierarchy as a salaried judge or interpreter of Islamic law, he remained in the Sudan.
By ad 100 the term rabbi was in general use to denote a sage, i.e., an interpreter of Jewish law, and in early literature it appears in various forms.
In attempting to secure the court's position as the interpreter of the law and the Constitution (largely according to Federalist Party principles), Chief Justice Marshall discouraged the writing of seriatim (separate) opinions, delivered the opinion of the court in most major cases, and strove for unanimity among his colleagues.
The new legal guidance, issued in early May by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, the principal interpreter of the law for the executive branch, suggested that federal courts could set aside convictions by military tribunals that were based on coerced statements on the ground that they violated a defendant's right to due process.
One can take it a step further, the only reality of the interpreter of the law is language itself and hence a turn of a phrase has the power to alter our social reality and shape the social contract democratic people require in order to live in peace and harmony.
To sum-up, and with all due respect: an unrestrained, divisive, liberal interpreter of our laws who clearly delighted in antagonizing others has passed.
