Since the end of the Lochner era, the prevailing constitutional narrative has taught that the Constitution generally should leave economic policy decisions to the legislative and executive branches.
The prevailing conceptions of constitutions ordinarily characterize them as rigid and long-enduring, if not permanent, documents.
Of course, today the prevailing interpretations of the Constitution for Republicans and their conservative masters is that corporations are people, with as much "freedom" of speech as their untold millions can buy.
In the present instance under the authority of the Constitution and laws prevailing in North Dakota the people, the Legislature, and the highest court of the state have declared the purpose for which these several acts were passed to be of a public nature, and within the taxing authority of the state.
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But the draft of a constitution for the Habsburg monarchy ran counter to ideas prevailing among the advisers of the new Austrian emperor, Francis Joseph (ruled 1848 1916).
Whatever the Constitution, whatever the law and whatever the logic, the prevailing view around Congress is that this kind of dispute would be dealt with in purely partisan terms -- the Republicans backing Mr. Bush and the Democrats Mr. Gore.
"I do believe that it's important that we uphold the provisions of our State Constitution that say that when we're spending tax money, people are paid prevailing wage," she said.
This Essay challenges that prevailing wisdom on both descriptive and normative grounds by providing the first systematic examination of temporary constitutions, exploring their benefits as well as their costs, and providing prescriptions for their optimal use.
I hold that every American citizen has a right to form an opinion of the constitution, and to propagate that opinion, and to use all honorable means to make his opinion the prevailing one.
