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  4. From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
  5. Subject: Judicial Interpretation vs. Legislation
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan21.204805.3768@midway.uchicago.edu>
  7. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  8. Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
  9. Organization: University of Chicago
  10. References: <1993Jan18.030527.3766@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1993Jan18.151505.1167@eff.org> <1993Jan21.185438.19181@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
  11. Distribution: usa
  12. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:48:05 GMT
  13. Lines: 15
  14.  
  15. In article <1993Jan21.185438.19181@IRO.UMontreal.CA> simon@brome.iro.umontreal.ca (Daniel Simon) writes:
  16. >One would have hoped that these same judges and legal scholars, after
  17. >devoting such care and attention to the task of mapping out the
  18. >complex subdivisions of the free speech/restricted speech spectrum,
  19. >might also have made at least a token effort to draw a rough line
  20. >between judicial interpretation and judicial legislation.  
  21.  
  22. What makes you think they haven't?  Read Edward Levi's "An Introduction
  23. to Legal Reasoning," for example.
  24.  
  25. Or, better yet, Blackstone, who predates the Constitution.
  26. -- 
  27. ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
  28. standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
  29. the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
  30.