In America, it is understood that juries usually weigh the evidence and testimony to determine questions of fact, while judges usually rule on questions of law, although the dissenting justices in the Supreme Court case Sparf et al.

Although not as represented as the British in finance or industry, the Irish have been actively involved in Quebec politics, a fact alluded to by the two prime ministers, five premiers, many Members of the National Assembly of Quebec and court justices with Irish roots.

Finding support in this position from two other justices ( William J. Brennan and William O. Douglas ), Goldberg published an opinion dissenting from the Court's denial of certiorari in a case, Rudolph v. Alabama, involving the imposition of the death penalty for rape, in which Goldberg cited the fact that only five nations responding to a UN survey indicated that they allowed imposition of the death penalty for rape, including the U. S., and that 33 states in the U. S. had outlawed the practice.

The application of the Court's decisions in these cases is not inconsistent with the fact that the other two justices in the Hamdi majority, as well as two of the dissenting justices ( Scalia and Stevens ) were even more restrictive in their willingness to concede any of the detention powers requested by the government for Guantanamo detainees in the Hamdi case.

In fact, the cited work above ( while quite useful on the origin and growth of the footnote ) does not claim that the law clerk was the author, and implies the opposite through letters between the justices.

In fact, words are imprecise, leading justices to impose their own prejudices to determine the meaning of a statute.

Chief Justice Mason, and justices Deane, Dawson and McHugh held that this conclusion was sufficiently based on the fact that the geographical location in which the relevant acts were alleged to have been done was physically external to Australia.

The fact that the Americans who upheld the sovereignty of their states did this in order to keep many of their people more securely in slavery -- the antithesis of individual liberty -- made the conflict grimmer, and the greater.

The fact that juries do not often have to give a reason for their verdict is also criticized, since opponents argue it is unfair for a person to be deprived of life, liberty or property without being told why it is being done so.

in order that they might increase the number of their warriors, Lombards confer liberty upon many whom they deliver from the yoke of bondage, and that the freedom of these may be regarded as established, they confirm it in their accustomed way by an arrow, uttering certain words of their country in confirmation of the fact.

On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

According to the historian Robin Blackburn, the words " the hireling and slave " allude to the fact that the British attackers had many ex-slaves in their ranks, who had been promised liberty and demanded to be placed in the battle line " where they might expect to meet their former masters ".

Honneth criticises the liberal state because it assumes that principles of individual liberty and private property are ahistorical and abstract, when, in fact, they evolved from a specific social discourse on human activity.

Such an invitation is in fact an order: government members are not at liberty to refuse.

In fact, given the liberty of Latin word order, " of Troy " might be taken to modify " arms " or " the man ", but it is not the custom to interpret the word that way.

* " to educate Islamic religious and community leaders in economics and in the fact that liberty is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for the achievement of a good society "

The Soke had its own magistrates, who were appointed by the Lord Paramount, acting under a commission of oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery, as well as under the ordinary commission, and the magistrates for the liberty retained the power of hanging a criminal in cases of murder, which in fact they exercised so late as the year 1812.

But the communist revolution does not end with the negation of individual liberty and equality (" collectivism "), but with the " negation of the negation ": " individual property " in the capitalist regime is in fact the " expropriation of the immediate producers.

Hughes ( Ct ): "... the fact that liberty of press may be abused does not make any less necessary the immunity of the press from prior restraint ... a more serious evil would result if officials could determine which stories can be published ..."

He writes, " Neither Qaradawi ’ s popularity nor his rhetoric should distract from the fact that Egyptian revolution ’ s grievances were based on a desire for political liberty and economic opportunity.

A peace was concluded in 1823 and on 17 July of that year John Rodolphus Kent of the Naval cutter Mermaid from New South Wales, while in the Harbour, took ' the liberty of naming it ( as it has not hitherto been named ) " Port Oxley ", in honour of the Surveyor General of the Colony ' in fact John Oxley ( 1783 / 85 ?- 1828 ).

Writing in 1989, Michael White differentiated between TFA's brand of libertarianism and that of civil liberties campaigners, arguing that: " The unavoidable fact is that TFA represents that ancient tradition of English concepts of freedom, easily traceable to Magna Carta, which see liberty in terms of freedoms from restraints and obligations, not civil rights and duties enunciated by Jefferson in the rebellious American colonies, by Tom Paine and the revolutionaries of 1789 ".

*" It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

In terms of Rome, Voltaire criticizes the fact that Britain has entered wars on account of religion ( whereas Rome did not ), but he praises Britain for serving liberty rather than tyranny ( as in Rome ).

Washington goes on to acknowledge the fact that parties are sometimes beneficial in promoting liberty in monarchies, but argues that political parties must be restrained in a popularly elected government because of their tendency to distract the government from their duties, create unfounded jealousies among groups and regions, raise false alarms amongst the people, promote riots and insurrection, and provide foreign nations and interests access to the government where they can impose their will upon the country.

" The fact that section 7 excludes a right contained in its sister laws is taken as significant, and thus rights to property are not even read into the rights to liberty and security of the person.

The liberty to ' make as many copies as you want ' is in fact also provided by all copyleft licences.

In addition, he states that the small size does not put the public liberty in danger because of the checks and balances relationship the House of Representatives has with the state legislatures, as well as the fact every member is voted in by the people every two years.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

That unused room was large enough for -- well, say an elephant could get into it and, as a matter of fact, an elephant did.

His accomplishments, and the fact that he was resident, did much to offset the unkind words travelers used to describe Little Rock after a visit there.

But his rancor did not cease, and presently, on March 13, when he preached a sermon on the text, `` And Ben-hadad Was Drunk '', he told his congregation how disappointed he was in Mr. Lewis, how he regretted having had him in his house, and how he should have been warned by the fact that the novelist was drunk all the time that he was working on the book.

He did mention in his column the fact that he had received many letters about this and he himself did not understand the networks and the independent local stations' not doing this -- but nothing happened.

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

The fact that the Aerospace Industries Association members whose lists were used did not comprise all firms engaged in defense programs.

Let us suppose that the animal did not in fact fall into the trap and did not suffer at all, but that we mistakenly believe it did, and say as before that its suffering was an evil thing.

On the other side of the ledger is the fact that he did see his niece and the woman with whom she was staying.

In fact, he did not think about Jerry Burton at all until he entered his living room and closed the door behind him.

`` In fact our whole defensive unit did a good job ''.

Representing as it did the efforts of only unauthorized individuals of the Roman and Anglican Churches, and urging a communion of prayer unacceptable to Rome, this association produced little fruit, and, in fact, was condemned by the Holy Office in 1864.

Not until long after the war -- 1950, in fact -- did they get a hint of the reason.

Kant is not generally considered to be a modern anthropologist, however, as he never left his region of Germany nor did he study any cultures besides his own, and in fact, describes the need for anthropology as a corollary field to his own primary field of philosophy.

However, this did not explain similarities between different atoms, as expressed by the periodic table, such as the fact that helium ( 2 electrons ), neon ( 10 electrons ), and argon ( 18 electrons ) exhibit similar chemical behavior.

In fact, there is no evidence of the deposed Sultan being allowed to make such foreign travels, nor did Voltaire ( or Gürsel ) assert that it had any actual historical foundation.

When Tennessee seceded, though the vote did not win a majority in East Tennessee, Johnson was forced to flee from the state with armed security ; he was in fact the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in Congress.

In fact, modern historians use AUC much more frequently than the Romans themselves did.

If he himself philosopher did not exist, he would not be there to ask questions about the nature of reality ... on the other hand, this fundamental fact, which we call existence, soon proves a rather barren topic for philosophic speculation ...

In spite of its name, and the fact that its founder was an architect, the Bauhaus did not have an architecture department during the first years of its existence.

He did not grasp the cosmological implications of this fact, and indeed at the time it was highly controversial whether or not these nebulae were " island universes " outside our Milky Way.