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latitudinous

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14) Men like Adams, who ratified the Constitution on the condition of an added Bill of Rights, did so because they believed that prohibiting any unduly latitudinous construction of federal power would protect state autonomy and thereby preserve individual liberty.
The former is small and specific; the latter is large and latitudinous.
142) From the perspective of the model of speech, it's as if a series of historical accidents had conspired to interpolate the English common-law method, with its latitudinous but covert tradition of judicial discretion, into the heart of American self-government, where judicial discretion ought to have been minimized.
 
 
 
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