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...highest court, where he would leave behind a record in which liberals and conservatives could both find encouraging signs. He was a strong supporter of environmental and consumer protections. But in criminal cases he tended to favor the prosecution. And in a 1986 dissent he adopted the "strict constructionist" argument that a court's job was to determine how constitutional language was understood by the framers who proposed it. When it came time for Souter's name to go before the U.S. Senate, the first part of Bush's gamble paid off - there was no bruising confirmation fight...
...Romney campaign's decision to try and reframe the religion debate in the Republican Party was shrewd. And the candidate left no buzzword untouched, name-checking nativities in public squares, strict constructionist judges, and the phrase "Under God." All are much ballyhooed causes of religious conservatives, especially during the December season when charges of a "War on Christmas" fill cable airwaves, and they build on the foundation set by the series of "Justice Sunday" events that the Family Research Council and others have put on over the past three years...
...says Andre Marrou, who was Paul's running mate when he ran as a Libertarian in 1988. "I saw him referred to in print as semi-eccentric. He's maybe 10% eccentric. It's his ideas that are eccentric. But it's basic Americanism." Paul is such a strict constructionist that he autographs pocket Constitutions more often than Tommy Lee signs breasts...
...There's a pretty fair argument to be made that Justice Powell should in fact have ignored Molly's advice and refused to find an abortion right in the Constitution - and it's not just the strict constructionist view that a judge's personal beliefs should not dictate one's reading of the law. Thanks at least in part to Molly, Powell believed women had the right to control their bodies. But he also believed that state legislatures were steadily embracing that view. As Jeffries explained, Powell and his brethren might have preserved abortion while preventing the divisive rancor that...
...line is organic in style and the colors are very bold, he said. Many styles stem from the Russian constructionist style of the architecture in New York...