In short, the new parliament, instead of merely interpreting and enforcing the divine law known as sharia, would actually give law to the Muslims.
In the end, this anti-Marxist would-be philosopher may achieve what Marx himself wanted philosophers to do: change the world instead of merely interpreting it.
And as to that federal law about not changing the election rules after the election: Our view was that we weren't changing the rules, but merely interpreting them broadly.
He added, "In the current and rather remarkable state of affairs in New York City, there is an all-too-clear danger that the courts, instead of merely interpreting and defending federal rights, may cross the line and become, in effect, an agency that performs crucial local government functions".
A modest proposal, then: Let's invent a new term right here, today, for judges or judicial nominees on the right, who claim to be merely "interpreting" the Constitution, even when they are refusing to impose settled law; law they deem unsettled because it was invented by "liberal activist judges".
If the Florida court revises its ruling to make clear it was merely interpreting established election statutes and was not rewriting the laws after the election in possible violation of federal law, there is unlikely to be any federal issue that would warrant further review by the United States Supreme Court.
Lawyers for Vice President Al Gore Al Gore argue that the Florida Supreme Court did not rewrite the law, but merely interpreted and made sense of a mangled and contradictory set of Florida statutes.
This is another instance where the CAFC went far beyond merely interpreting the patent statute in order to benefit patentees and harm the public.
He merely interpreted it as prospective, holding that it "cannot affect that justice of the peace during his continuance in office; whatever effect it may have upon those justices who have been appointed to office since the passing of the act".
