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Example sentences for: common-law

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Once on the bench, these judicial politicians (emboldened by their anything-goes common-law attitudes) will set about encoding the popular will into law, to the detriment of unpopular minorities.
The massive cover book review praises Justice Antonin Scalia for changing the course of American jurisprudence from "common-law constitutionalism" to "originalism," then blasts him for betraying his own principles: Scalia has abandoned neutrality and now decides cases based on his own political views.
But even then common-law unions were valid.
(Maybe even a day or two sooner if Slate 's hearty software developers are willing to suspend their centuries-old common-law right to a three-hour lunch break, double helpings of Caesar salad and salmon hash, and 1.3 liters of a tolerable sauvignon blanc, followed by a nap of at least two hours' duration.
A few of these students befriend their senators, or find some other way to become federal judges; by that time, they have internalized what Scalia calls the "common-law attitude," and they become a dangerous lot.