Poetry is a word not normally associated with legislation. Most bills are Sahara-dry, stating that paragraph X of chapter Y of the New Jersey Statutes is being rewritten to say Z. Clauses and phrases are sometimes heaped upon each other in layers so thick you need a steam shovel to pull them apart and figure out what they mean.
I'm just a bill, yes, I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill. Well, it's a long, long journey to the capital city. It's a long, long wait while I'm sitting in committee. But I know I'll be a law someday ... At least I hope and pray that I will, but today I'm still just a bill. Okay. I'm fine now. Just had an ADHD moment. It's sort of like the moments I have when I see Morgan Freeman in a movie and remember that he got his start playing Easy Reader in the Children's Television Workshop show The Electric Company. Conjunction junction, what's your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses. Conjunction junction, how's that function? I got three favorite cars that get most of my job done. Conjunction junction, what's their function? I got "and," "but" and "or." They'l...
Legal documents can be difficult to read. It is not uncommon for dangling participles, incomplete clauses, passive voice, split verb phrases, misspelled words and/or poor grammar to appear in a contract, brief or court opinion.
Some people love to write. I see them enthusiastically gesticulating, volunteering to write this review, that expose. I envy them. They are anxious to get started, confident, eager to apply digits to alphabet, to group letters into words, words into clauses, into streaming phrases, sentences and paragraphs and ultimately to pen some distinct and unique view of the world. Me? I am intimidated by the blank page, unable to make a beginning, too afraid, cautious, aghast at the space. Staring at it a while, I want to wrest it to the ground, get physical with it, dominate it.
..., "striking from [it] those severable phrases and clauses that are invalid for lack of probable ...
... jurisdiction, the remaining portions, clauses, and phrases shall not be affected, but shall rema...
AS EXPERIENCED WRITERS know all too well, their world abounds with goblins, elves, imps and boogeymen of high and low degree. They creep into subordinate clauses. They feed upon the most innocent phrases. And alas, they wind up in print. Two or three years ago (the clipping isn't dated), The Denver Post covered an ugly murder. "Sources said police will try to show that Watkins was in the back seat of the car and fired four shots from a revolver that had pulled alongside Adams as she drove her BMW along Charlotte Street." The reporter did not say whether the revolver had an operator's license.
... may replace the italicized words and phrases in the clauses at ? 401.14 with those appropriate ...
... [S]triking from a warrant those severable phrases and clauses that are invalid for lack of pr...
... found in three other constitutional clauses: the Extradition, Grand Jury, and Impeachment Clau... argument" (185) whereby constitutional phrases are read in light of other instances of an identic...
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