Chapter 3: The Language of Law

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Justice Benjamin Cardozo
________ defined substantive due process as the "principles of or- dered liberty ..
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Fourteenth Amendment
The ________ (1868) applied the same principle to the states:"no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law ..
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English speaking lawyers
________ refer routinely to reasonable time, reasonable care, reasonable mistake, reasonable risk, reasonable doubt, and reasonable force.
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Immanuel Kant
________ wrote that liberty- or freedom- is the central value protected by the concept of Right and the rule of law.
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US Constitution
Though the ________ does not use the terms fair or fairness, the requirement of a fair trial has become a standard element of due process under the Four- teenth Amendment.
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Article
________ 6 of the European Convention of Human Rights provides that, in all cases,"Everyone is entitled to a fair and public hearing ..
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Constitutional law
________ is the body of principles that has evolved and continues to evolve from the written text.
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finite set of words
It is a(n) ________.
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This refinement of meaning and connotation is a remark
able feature of current English legal usage
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For example
No person should profit from his own wrong
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The Fourteenth Amendment (1868) applied the same principle to the states
"no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law."
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Justice Benjamin Cardozo defined substantive due process as the "principles of or
dered liberty."
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Though the U.S. Constitution does not use the terms fair or fairness, the requirement of a fair trial has become a standard element of due process under the Four
teenth Amendment
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justice
Victims demand ___________.
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fairness
Defendants want_____________.
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reasonableness
International negotiation in English will demand that lawyers start thinking in the idiom of ______________.
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The Constitution
___________________ is the set of authoritative rules and principles written down within the four corners of a specific document. It is a finite set of words.
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