At 06:03 AM 3/12/96 -0500, Gary Howland wrote:

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Black Unicorn write:

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On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, jim bell wrote:

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Remember, one of the basic assumptions that any supporter of the Leahy bill could be making is that it will be interpreted INTELLIGENTLY by courts.

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Wrong. The assumption is that the rules of statuatory construction and a long history of weighing legislative history will be used in intrepreting the statute.

Surely one of the basic assumptions of the supporter of any bill is that it _will_ be interpreted intelligently? [Note - Jim is not saying this is the _only_ assumption].

Exactly!

It's hard to make bills foolproof, since fools are so ingenious ...

And hard-working, too!