Word: implicit
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...claim such a right. “The Ames Curfew is an undue burden on the right of free movement and therefore violates the Equal Protection clause,” said Bryce Callahan, who made oral arguments for the petitioners. “The right of free movement is implicit in the concept of liberty.” Adam Harber, the leading oralist of the respondents, disagreed that free movement constituted a constitutional right. “The petitioners have asked for a new substantive due process right, the right to free movement,” Harber said. The judges...
...platform on which "macho" Spain elected Zapatero in March of last year included pulling the troops out of Iraq and legalizing homosexual marriage. He's done both, and the latter move has outraged the PP. Backed by the bishops, it has rushed to the Constitutional Court, insisting it's implicit in the relevant section that marriage must be to a member of the opposite sex. While the court mulls, local mayors continue to wed over-the-moon gays and lesbians, and no one can guess what will become of these legal unions should they be ruled unconstitutional. Can you "unmarry...
...some extent, we place the burden of configuring lists on the people who are creating the list, with the implicit understanding that we will help people with whatever they need help with,” said Gline, who is also a Crimson columnist...
...even as I congratulated Anne on having such a clear idea of what she wanted from her future—I was still quite undecided myself—I couldn’t help but feel a little uncomfortable with her reasoning. After all, implicit in the choice she had made was a belief in the necessity of choosing. As one Yale undergraduate interviewed in The New York Times put it flatly, “You can’t be the best career woman and the best mother at the same time. You always have to choose one over...
...Regulations for Undergraduate Organizations at Harvard College include as their first criterion, “A constitution and by-laws whose membership clause shall not discriminate on the basis of…sex.” Nonetheless, Harvard allows these single-sex menaces to exist freely on its campus, implicitly recognizing them as legitimate student organizations. While it may not do so publicly, College administrators recognize, for shame, that there has long been implicit cooperation between University Hall and these groups. Deans of the College have hosted euphemistically titled “Jams,” and scores of staff...