jurisprudence
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As President Reagan and his lawyers began their campaign to reshape American jurisprudence, an important early clash involved the tax-exempt status of Bob Jones University.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Mr. Arkes is founder and a co-director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding and a professor emeritus of jurisprudence at Amherst College.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
I think in some ways, this botched execution is emblematic of how everybody understands now what happens in that room, but the jurisprudence and the technologies have occluded that for most of us.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
Whether it chooses to do so will reveal as much about our immigration politics as this opinion reveals about our jurisprudence.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
Such critics also pointed out that, thanks to the commercialization of Everest, the once hallowed peak has now even been dragged into the swamp of American jurisprudence.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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You Be the Judge: Jud, Jur, Jus
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Lincoln Inaugural Address (March 1861)
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