THE SUPREME COURT struck down an unusually large number of statutes this term.
The clause was the legal basis for any number of statutes of enormous benefit to society.
Congress, Ms. Reno noted, has passed a number of statutes expanding the government's authority to prosecute terrorists "before they strike".
Mens rea need not be shown in a number of statutes regulating economic or other activities, commonly termed public-welfare offenses, carrying minor penalties.
"The court concludes that it lacks the power to invalidate the waiver provision merely because of the unlimited number of statutes that could potentially be encompassed," Judge Huvelle wrote.
However, with the abolition of slavery came a rise in the number of statutes banning certain kinds of marriage -- particularly interracial marriage.
The federal judiciary suffers from a chronic undersupply of judges and a ballooning number of statutes that have led to a growing docket of cases.
"In the Obama administration, we thought we would get assistance from federal agencies under a number of statutes, and did," says Scott Nelson, an attorney with Public Citizen, a group that represents plaintiffs in litigation related to arbitration clauses.
In any case, between 1532 and 1537, Henry instituted a number of statutes that dealt with the relationship between king and pope and hence the structure of the nascent Church of England.
The UK has passed a number of statutes that authorize the imposition of trade or economic sanctions, providing some inference that illegal behaviour outside the UK is viewed with condemnation.
A Labour source said: "This is not a little bit of statute, this is not a dab of statute, this is statute pure and simple".
