basic principle
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It is a basic principle of constitutional law that a government cannot bind its future self.
From Slate • May 26, 2026
The Student Group Claim argues this basic principle of consumer law overrides any clauses in university contracts which seek to absolve the institution from responsibility for disruption.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
“It starts with a very basic principle: Do you, as the boss, want to leave the job?”
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2026
Evolutionary biology explains this contrast through a basic principle: energy is limited, and species must divide it between reproduction and maintaining their bodies.
From Science Daily • Jan. 16, 2026
He would thus have been familiar with the basic principle that objects appear smaller as they recede into the distance, a principle analysed by Euclid, and familiar in the Middle Ages.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
