trammels

The Supreme Court has not confronted questions about whether the law’s wording or application trammels First Amendment rights.

But there remain some bureaucratic trammels that the owners, to their dismay, must face the old-fashioned way.

Thomas Jefferson viewed the Old World as a redundant Ruritania where brave souls were weighed down by the ‘monkish trammels of priests and kings.’

We cannot wonder that he speedily emancipated himself from the trammels of recognized judicial procedure which, in preventing him from committing injustice, would have rendered his labors futile.

Philosophy was freed from the trammels of false systems, and speculated securely and deeply on the divine and human nature.