The proposed principle builds on two premises about constitutional economic justice.
That notion runs contrary to our fundamental premises about the law.
In part, Kotkin argues, he acted on "deep Marxist premises" about the need to extirpate capitalist class relations.
But it is worth thinking about just what premises about terrorism and fundamentalism lie behind these arguments.
The Broockman-Skovron paper suggests that politicians left, right and center have been making decisions on the basis of mistaken premises about their voters.
They are grounded on premises about how things are supposed to be, as Mr Santorum says, and that's not up for debate.
The study is based on questionable empirical premises about punitive damages, questionable understanding of applicable legal rules, and questionable statistical methodology.
The United States failed because the strategy devised by the White House was predicated on false premises about the domino theory and Asian communism.
"U.S. Promotes Free Elections, Only to See Allies Lose" (Memo From Dubai, Aug. 10), starting from the wrong premises about Lebanon's parliamentary by-elections, draws the wrong lessons.
And this is probably what Charles Murray was talking about when he wrote that "many of our opinions about policy are grounded on premises about the nature of human life and human society that are beyond the reach of data".
One of my basic premises about leadership is that people actually divide along this binary decision process of whether you're going to lead from fear or lead from love.
