Sentence examples for jurisprudence not from inspiring English sources

"The bulk of my nominees, twenty years ago or even ten years ago, would have been considered very much centrists, well within the mainstream of American jurisprudence, not particularly fire-breathing or ideologically driven," Obama said.

"It is one of the surest indexes of a mature and developed jurisprudence not to make a fortress out of the dictionary," Judge Hand wrote in a 1945 decision, "but to remember that statutes always have some purpose or object to accomplish, whose sympathetic and imaginative discovery is the surest guide to their meaning".

Smith's fat volumes on jurisprudence are not the work of man who believes public policy to be pointless, or that government rules are not necessary for prosperity.

There is increasing pressure on the city's Family Court to speed up, but judges and lawyers concede that the very character of American jurisprudence -- not to mention badly overburdened courts -- makes it virtually impossible for cases to move at a pace that suits a child's psychological need for swift resolution.

"Islamic jurisprudence has not spent the past 1,400 years opposed to change; it has been defined by it".

There are now so many threads to our national-security jurisprudence, and not enough discussion about how they might be knotted up.

Historical jurisprudence opposed not only attempts at codification but also those rationalist thinkers who sought to derive legal theories from general and universal principles without respect to the characteristics and customs of a particular people.

The debate over the role of international law in American jurisprudence is not all that new, but it has been a point of disagreement among current justices on the Supreme Court.

Although a new jurisprudence has not emerged with any distinctness, it is clear that some Congressional conclusions about obviously substantial, cumulative effects on commerce are being assigned lesser values than the once-stable doctrine would assign them.

Is Justice Scalia saying (a third question posed by blogger Wayne Besen) that "American jurisprudence has not evolved in two centuries?" No, he is identifying the jurisprudential goal, which is to figure out what the Constitution means.

While the question of what conception of law it is most desirable that people adopt is surely a significant one, it is important to note that the prescriptive view of methodology in jurisprudence is not genuinely in competition with either the conceptual analysis view or the reductionist approach.