Talk:Judicial interpretation

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Why on earth does this redirect point to 'judicial activism'? The two words are not the same at all: activism is a form of judicial interpretation.

  • This page needs an article to go with it. The articles that it links to can form part of it. - Matthew238 00:27, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Removed cat

I removed [[Category:Supreme Court of the United States|J]]. While this relates to the Supreme Court, it is not exclusive to the Supreme Court.

I don't know enough about the subject matter to make a valid contribution but seems to me this article is solely about interpretation of the US constitution. if i wanted to know about judicial interpretation of the us constitution i would've searched for that instead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.243.251.30 (talk) 00:18, 8 January 2008 (UTC) Epolk 23:21, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Intentionalism?

I came here looking for somethign like Intentionalism. It was somethign about trying to interpret the intent of law. Mathiastck 14:43, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] circular definition

The article begins with this:

Judicial interpretation is a theory or mode of thought that explains how the judiciary should interpret the law,

This is circular! To understand the phrase "how the judiciary should interpret the law", one must FIRST know what "the judiciary...interpret[ing] the law" means. But that is just what the sentence purports to explain. Michael Hardy 04:34, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] verifiability of arguments

This article seemed to have a strict constructionalist bias, with more time spent on "pro" arguments for strict constructionalism and a noticeable lack of criticisms of that approach. The text for other approaches spends much less time in support and still finds time to criticize.

I tried to balance this text, but many of these arguments, while probably verifiable, had not actually been verified. Remember, from Wikipedia:No original research:

Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought. Articles should only contain verifiable content from reliable sources without further analysis. Content should not be synthesized to advance a position.

Kbmartin2 05:36, 2 June 2007 (UTC)