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SCOTUS punted in constraining the very general right to keep and bear arms to simply self-defense purposes.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Clinton staff: “We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns.” Kagan wrote the Clinton ban on gun imports. 2010

SCOTUS punted in constraining the very general right to keep and bear arms to simply self-defense purposes.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Clinton staff: “We are taking the law and bending it as far as we can to capture a whole new class of guns.” Kagan wrote the Clinton ban on gun imports. 2010

Now, of course, the judges/justices can try to distinguish precedent, etc. but that doesn't eliminate the fact that stare decisis has some inherent value in constraining judicial decisionmaking.

Balkinization 2007

In this contest, the state acted as a sort of referee between Egypt's secular reformists and its religious conservatives whose objective was "street censorship," a practice that Mehrez defines as constraining and contaminating the cultural field "by imposing conservative religious values on the secular players."

Ty McCormick: Clash of Civilizations Re-Revisited Ty McCormick 2011

Living in a parliamentary system as I do, the idea of constraining political lives seems a little odd.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Make Obama’s Third Term Possible”: 2009

He aims only to disengage from the productions and the power a will to knowledge that may be identified as a constraining will, regardless of the status of the knowledge it discovers.

Foucault and the Hedgerow History of Sexuality 2006

I just won ` t be buying the next two books unless they follow those pesky "constraining" "adventure fiction" staples ...

Robot reviews: LoEG Century: 1910 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

Netshitenzhe said virtually all the commissions - the conference's debating forums - believed that monopoly capital did things, such as constraining higher rates of growth and social inclusion, that had to be dealt with.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

Look at the neighborhood of a distillery -- an influence goes forth from that spot which reaches miles around -- a kind of constraining influence, that brings in the poor, and wretched, and thirsty, and vicious.

Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society

He loses not a moment in 'constraining' His disciples to go away to the other side, as if in haste to remove the last hindrance to something that He had been longing to get to.

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke Alexander Maclaren 1868