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TO ABRIDGE, practice. To make shorter in words, so as to retain the sense or
substance. In law it signifies particularly the making of a declaration or
count shorter, by taking or severing away some of the substance from it.
Brook, tit. Abridgment; Com. Dig. Abridgment; 1 Vin. Ab. 109.
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The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no
law" that abridges (limits) freedom of the press. Don Brown here abridges one chapter,
"He Was a Good Lion," using key sentences and adding just a
few links to create a swift-moving tale: as a small girl, Beryl
encounters a supposedly tame lion and is bitten before she's
rescued. Practically speaking: The law school professors and administrators
believe that the Solomon Amendment unconstitutionally abridges their
prerogative to prohibit representatives of the Pentagon's Judge
Advocate General's office--which restricts employment opportunities
for openly homosexual attorneys--from conducting job interviews on
campus. |
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