The role of a judge is to interpret the law.
Those changes have made a difference in the way we've interpreted the law.
Over the years, courts have interpreted common law in many cases.
Instead, he instructed, they were only to interpret the law.
But some Federal judges have said that their job is to interpret the law, not create it.
At that point, both sides were interpreting the law differently.
Are judges to interpret the law according to the letter, and not the spirit?
If they interpret the law, will their conclusions differ from those of men?
Courts have taken the Convention into account in interpreting the common law.
Nevertheless, the court felt bound to interpret the law as it was in 1780.