The easily-duped masses should not, he said, be permitted to decide matters too complicated for them to assess.
The overriding question of principle, however, is whether machines should be permitted to decide whether human beings live or die.
Mr. Swiger said fracking could be done safely and cleanly, and he said local regulators should be permitted to decide whether to permit the technique in their communities.
The officials might still be permitted to decide, after interviewing him, that Elian lacked the necessary maturity to speak for himself.
Her heroine may be feral, psychotic or just a bit wild, but it is the reader who is permitted to decide.
President Bush has said that he should be permitted to decide on the proper mix of federal employees and private contractors at airport screening checkpoints.
But critics say that countries should be permitted to decide if they will accept a risk, however small, noting, for example, that unpasteurized milk is legal in France but not in Britain.
Harvey Kurzweil, a lawyer for Travelers, said, "This vindicates Travelers' position that a jury should be permitted to decide whether this was a single coordinated terrorist attack constituting one occurrence under the Travelers policy".
"By deciding that judges are not constitutionally permitted to decide whether defendants are eligible for the death penalty, the Supreme Court altered the fundamental principles applicable to capital murder trials," he wrote for the majority.In this section A change of heart Would you like your class war shaken or stirred, sir?
States and localities were permitted to decide for themselves whether vocational education should be provided in separate schools or within existing public schools, but they tended to the latter as a growing consensus emerged on the ideal of a comprehensive high school offering differentiated instruction to all students under the same roof.
