One conception of the law involves the rigorous application of neutral principles.
In such a situation, it is hardly surprising that ideologues seek to pass off their ideologies as neutral principles rather than coming right out and declaring them.
For Fish, there are only political positions themselves, whose proponents jockey for supremacy using whatever advantage they can muster - including strategic appeals to neutral principle.
Scholars allied with the movement believe that the law is not founded on independent, neutral principles of justice.
What the Federalists stand for, they say, is the exaltation of neutral legal principles.
Here in as naked a form as one might like (or not like) is the logic of neutral principle.
I think he's very principled, I think he would apply, for lack of a better term, neutral principles in coming to conclusions he comes to.
For him, the goal wasn't to articulate neutral principles but to reach correct results.
Kino also yields kinoin, a crystalline neutral principle.
Although we lost members in the short run, in the long run it emphasized our devotion to neutral principles.