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The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
Edward Coke / Lord Chief Justice Of England And Wales
Jurisprudence
Law
Light
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Liberty finds no refuge in a jurisprudence of doubt.
Sandra Day O'connor / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Doubt
Jurisprudence
Liberty
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The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.
William Shakespeare / Poet
Innocence
Jurisprudence
Silence
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I'm not a scholar of Islamic history or jurisprudence or anything.
Keith Ellison / U.s. Representative
Islamic
Jurisprudence
Scholar
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There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
Benjamin N. Cardozo /
Jurisprudence
Literature
Fashions
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The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
Henry James Sumner Maine / Historian
Humans
Institutions
Jurisprudence
Longest
Roman
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The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.
Henry James Sumner Maine / Historian
Code
Jurisprudence
Begins
Celebrated
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Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
Baron De Montesquieu / Author
Character
Connections
Jurisprudence
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The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
Herbert Read / Poet
Analogies
Equity
Evidence
Jurisprudence
Principles
Analogy
Derived
Meaning Of
Principle
Roman
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Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
Ezra Stiles / Educator
Government
Equity
Institute
Jurisprudence
Justice
Law
Policy
Government Justice Law
Besides
Civil
Civil Government
Public
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Nothing but a necessity invincible by any other means can justify ... a prostitution of laws, which constitute the pillars of our whole system of jurisprudence.
Thomas Jefferson / 3Rd U.s. President
Jurisprudence
Law
Mean
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Sheikh Rahman had a doctorate in Islamic jurisprudence from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the Harvard of Islamic thought. He also had a long history of guiding terrorist groups.
Peter Bergen / Broadcaster
Groups
Harvard
Islamic
Jurisprudence
Terrorist
Doctorate
Guiding
Long History
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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
Herbert Read / Poet
Anarchism
Direct
Jurisprudence
Law
Literature
Relation
Basis
Claim
Roman
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Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.
Gerolamo Cardano / Mathematician
Art
Jurisprudence
Suffering
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Too many of us had to suffer at the hands of a judiciary so independent that it often acted independently of both the basic principles of jurisprudence and the very constitution it swore to uphold and protect.
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari / Political Figure
Basic Principles
Judiciary
Jurisprudence
Principles
Acted
Independently
Suffer
Swore
Uphold
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In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.
Aly Khan / Socialite
Legal
Doctrine
Islam
Jurisprudence
Liberty
Principles
Above
Basic
Basis
Centuries
Developed
Fundamental
Schools
Systems
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Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
Jean Piaget / Psychologist
Admirable
Code
Games
Instance
Jurisprudence
Social Institutions
Rules
Complex
Complex System
Constitute
Extremely
Marbles
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Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.
Joseph Sobran / Journalist
Games
Jurisprudence
Mean
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We have a system of jurisprudence. You are innocent until proven guilty. You have a right to counsel. And you have a right to hospitalization if you are ill. That is our system. And it's what makes this country special and what makes this country great.
Andrew Cuomo / Governor Of New York
Guilty
Ill
Innocent
Jurisprudence
Proven
Special
Counsel
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For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.
G. Willow Wilson / Writer
Arab World
Doctrine
Islam
Jurisprudence
Prevailing
Accorded
Arab
Cultural
Encouraged
Fed
Inhabitants
Norms
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I consider myself an ordinary Muslim who is constantly working to put himself in the framework established by the Koran and the tradition of the Prophet Mohammed. I study the works of experts of jurisprudence, Koranic commentary, hadith commentary, and Sufism.
Fethullah Gulen / Preacher
Commentary
Experts
Framework
Jurisprudence
Prophet
Established
Mohammed
Muslim
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."
Edmund Burke / Statesman
Jurisprudence
Law
Party
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By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid civilian casualties, and end combat operations as soon as possible. These are provisions recognized by almost all authorities on international jurisprudence.
Bhikkhu Bodhi / Author
Jurisprudence
Party
Trying
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Although environmental groups sometimes raise issues in the confirmation process, environmental protection is not central to the fear-mongering of the liberal interest groups that oppose conservative judges. But the threat to basic environmental protections from conservative jurisprudence is broad-based and severe.
Benjamin Wittes /
Environmental
Confirmation
Environmental Protection
Jurisprudence
Protection
Severe
Judges
Liberal
Oppose
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It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals, or by another State.
Roger B. Taney /
Civilized
Civilized Nations
Consent
Jurisprudence
Nations
Permission
Sovereign
Established
Courts
Defendant
Individuals
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Sued
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