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They also have institutional costs because, to the extent that they subvert clear meaning that the legislature created, they usurp legislative authority and diminish the separation of powers, one of the bedrocks of our system of government.
Her aim was not to subvert the women's magazine but to give it a makeover, to translate feminism into something familiar to the middle class.
Hatch worries that Lee would use his new position to halt any spread of anti-affirmative-action legislation or seek to subvert California's abolition of such practices.
Do Eastwood's other movies really subvert the whole action genre?
' All of President Clinton's untruths, all of his lying under oath, if you will, about an extramarital relationship does not subvert the Constitution" (Schumer).