Neither constitutional nor common law, for instance, recognizes a right to privacy in public or from a public vantage.
Of course, this illusion flies in the face of common sense, to say nothing of the constitutional duty to provide for the common defense.
So even though the Constitution favors religious practices over merely moral preferences, constitutional law and American common sense approve of defending shared lifestyle commitments and convictions.
We have a constitutional obligation to provide for the common defense of this nation.
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But something tells me that, nowadays, Constitutional interpretation is much less of a common-sense slam dunk for the average American than the simple conceptual problems stuffed into that trillion-dollar coin.
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Such surprises frequently compel the federal government to give urgent attention to its constitutional mandate to "provide for the common defense, " often at the expense of fiscal discipline and other priorities.
These are not partisan proposals but rather common sense ideas fully within our Constitutional structure.
Indeed, let's enshrine this new principle--that the government should purchase, not seize, land for the common good--in a constitutional amendment.
The Justice Committee also took evidence from former cabinet secretaries Lord Turnbull and Lord Butler, who said political parties should agree to a common set of principles setting out the constitutional conventions that would apply in the event of a hung parliament.
Facing urgent challenges unencumbered by old conventions, leaders of common stock and uncommon vision crafted a bold new constitutional framework.
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England at the time could in no sense be described as a democracy, but the idea of accountability was entrenched at all levels of society by centuries of the common law, creating the political conditions for a constitutional monarchy and a dynamic economy.
The experience of the British courts, being the fountainhead of the common-law tradition, shows that they have adapted well to the new constitutional paradigm.
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