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...majority opinion, the Supreme Court ruled that British-style legislative omnipotence cannot be permitted in a federal nation governed by a written constitution, where "it is the constitution which is supreme and sovereign." Not only does the Indian constitution provide "rigid separation of powers," ruled the court, but "there is no doubt that the constitution has entrusted the judicature in this country with the task of construing the provisions of the constitution and of safeguarding the fundamental rights of the citizens." To such rights, which include the right of free speech, the court found no exceptions "by reference...
...result: a versatile, sure-fire way to convert every conventionally rigid fabric in the world into stuff that stretched up and down, back and forth, to and fro, and never once ran out of breadth. Accordingly, a whole new galaxy of stretch fabric appeared, all developed around a spandex core, ranging from brocade to burlap, taffeta to twill. Not all of them cling to the skin, but the stretch qualities let them give when and where they have...
...Lowell's compassion has been tested. Great chunks of his life have been spent in misery and in mental asylums (an experience he has duly and dispassionately recorded in a poem). Now, for the first time, he has kind words for his father; for Jonathan Edwards, symbol of rigid Puritanism; even for that total tyrant, Caligula: ". . . yours the lawlessness/ Of something simple that has lost...
...entering Harvard with varying levels of preparedness and many are finding Gen Ed courses unchallenging. Part of the problem is that too many Gen Ed courses are simply listless additions to the catalogue. But another difficulty is that students can only place out of Gen Ed on very rigid terms: only those students with sophomore standing may be exempted from Gen Ed courses...
...enemy, Justice Frankfurter, who believed that "judicial restraint" required judges to defer to administrators and legislators as being more expert and closer to the public will. Unwise policies should be corrected at the ballot box, Frankfurter argued; it is neither democratic nor efficient for nine lifetime judges to issue rigid orders about matters best left to elected compromisers...