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• “The sovereign people had a right to do whatever they wanted with the proposed plan of government, and “no man, reasoning upon revolution principles, can possibly controvert this right.””

  Simon & Schuster: Ratification

• “Now there would be a simple way to controvert this point, at least to the extent of showing that the argument that constitutional free expression guarantees were applicable to civil suits was accepted only by some and not by others: Provide some evidence of cases or commentators saying that civil liability was, by virtue of being civil liability, beyond the scope of constitutional protections.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » The Deep Roots of Constitutional Constraints on Speech-Based Civil Liability

• “Rule 3.1 of the Rules of Professional Conduct states, “A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis for doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of existing law.””

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Satire in the “Questions Presented” Section of Appellate Briefs

• “ABA Model Rule 3.1, for which most states have a mandatory analogous rule, says, “A lawyer shall not bring or defend a proceeding, or assert or controvert an issue therein, unless there is a basis in law and fact for doing so that is not frivolous, which includes a good faith argument for an extension, modification or reversal of existing law.””

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ethics Question:

• “If you controvert anything that most Palin supports say, they just start screaming loudly.”

  Yes, She Can? ON Sarah Palin and 2012 - Dan_McLaughlin’s blog - RedState

• “Their policy is simply to controvert anything and everything the Churches teach and stand it on its head.”

  Buddhism and Sex by M. O'C. Walshe

• “If there be in it any statements or assumptions of facts which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them.”

  Simon & Schuster: Black and White

• “The mere fact that something is controverted, no matter how bad the reasons why, makes into a "controversial" issue something that, objectively speaking, there is no good reason to controvert.”

  Archive 2006-04-01

• “Nor do we controvert that ID should continue to be studied, debated, and discussed.”

  No more coffee for Mr Witt - The Panda's Thumb

• “Says Richard A. Sauber (lawyer for Time's Matthew Cooper), explaining the relationship between the new revelations (that Scooter Libby took part in authorized disclosures to controvert war critic Joe Wilson) and Libby's defense to perjury (that he forgot who said what about Wilson's wife Valerie Plame).”

  Archive 2006-04-01

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