However, the combined effects of the changes in these five dimensions has been to restrict rather than promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, in apparent violation of the constitutional justification for copyright law.

The court ruled that the girl's threat to kill herself if the pregnancy continued was adequate constitutional justification for permitting her to go for the abortion, which reportedly took place last week.

After the referendum, Kilpatrick and now Byrd, too, began pressing for an even stronger legislative response, based on the constitutional justification of interposition.

Speaking outside Parliament Hall, Mr Welsh said there was historical and constitutional justification for its recall.

But several liberal and libertarian groups are urging the Supreme Court to strike down these regulations, arguing that technological changes have made the original constitutional justification for these regulations obsolete.

Defenders of these closing laws reply that they have perfectly constitutional secular justifications.

I simply cannot find a constitutional justification for the A.T.F.," he said, "and besides, they are a bunch of thugs who exist to violate my rights.

The Kremlin never attempted a constitutional justification.

A bit over a week ago, President Bush and his men promised to provide the legal, constitutional and moral justifications for the sort of warrantless spying on Americans that has been illegal for nearly 30 years.

Unlike courts, Congress directly reflects public attitudes and beliefs, enabling Congress better to understand where, and to what extent, refusals to accommodate a disability amount to behavior that is callous or unreasonable to the point of lacking constitutional justification.