Hamilton also recognized that if judges are to determine whether the government has exceeded the limits "assigned to [its] authority," they must "ascertain the meaning of the Constitution, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body".
To decide whether an individual's liberty ought to be protected, we must ascertain to which category the potential restriction of liberty belongs: offense, moralism, paternalism, and harm prevention.
Washington and Seoul must now ascertain whether the thaw is merely an opportunistic gambit by President Kim Il Jong to attract economic aid or a fundamental attempt to overcome the past.
That is to say, before testing whether a default rule promotes any particular interpretive value, we must first ascertain whether the Constitution either enjoins or permits the judiciary to recognize such a value as worthy of promotion.
In order to provide smoking cessation support to their patients in line with clinical practice guidelines, general practitioners must first ascertain whether their patients' use tobacco.
When a pre-existing surrogate, or one with durable power of attorney for health care, is not available, physicians must often ascertain whether a newly designated surrogate is suitable.
They must ascertain and act on their customers' needs and desires, not bank on the presumed longevity of their products.
We must ascertain his identity forthwith!" Holmes seemed jittery as he continued in this vein.
To determine the empirical possibility of a thing, according to Immanuel Kant (1724 1804), it must be ascertained whether the nature of the thing in question conforms to the conditions of actual experience.
