Word: upholding
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Most important, the judges are bound to uphold the Constitution. But that is not an immutable piece of parchment that judges can apply to laws like litmus paper. It is rather a set of principles that have proved enduring partly because they are flexible. When the original Constitution was written in Hamilton's day, the U.S. was mostly a nation of small farmers who would have fallen on their pitchforks at the thought of today's complicated modern society, or of the broad role that Government plays in running it. By giving the Constitution new meaning, the judiciary...
Church-state unanimity runs deeper than doctrine. The liberal Johannesburg Sunday Times this year published a major expose on the Broederbond, the secret clan of 12,000 leading Afrikaners sworn to uphold apartheid and considered to be more powerful than Parliament. The Sunday Times reported that 750 Afrikaner ministers, fully 40% of the clergy, were Broederbond members...
...next spring. Although we have strongly disagreed with his political views for as long as he has been around, this is not a matter of politics. Nixon represents everything that is morally corrupt about America; to allow him the national attention a Harvard appearance would create serves only to uphold those values...
Then Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal ticked off a list of drastic measures that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board will take to uphold the greenback. The key moves: 1) raising the federal discount rate by a full point to a record 9.5%, the sharpest jump in 45 years; 2) reducing by $3 billion the funds that U.S. banks have available to lend; 3) amassing $30 billion in foreign currencies, nearly all borrowed, to support dollar prices on foreign exchanges; 4) greatly increasing U.S. sales of gold...
Tribe serves as special counsel for the city of Boston, and represented Boston Mayor Kevin H. White in a court suit to uphold White's spending an estimated $1 million in city funds to campaign for the ballot question...