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12) Many originalists shun these ideas of natural justice because they seem akin to the historical velleities of today's "activist" judges, even though the Living Constitution has nothing to do with such timeless notions and the original Constitution had very much to do with them, and its makers and defenders said so copiously and carefully.
Thinking about originalism by Kesler, Charles R. / Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
What a curious pair they make: Wordsworth flinty, decisive, imperturbable, forging steadily ahead; Coleridge a creature of panics, dawdlings, and velleities, always "veering about from one hope to another," as Lamb put it.
"A jelly minus its mould" by Downing, Ben / New Criterion
 
 
 
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