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Just as the latter had frowned upon timidity and withdrawal from public service while lauding the virile virtues of the warrior, so did the leadership of the Roman Christian Church discourage the holy passivism of the original Christian martyrs and call for a holy activism which, in the crusading era, reached fever-pitched proportions.— God, Money, & the Crusades
In 1994, in an error of judicial passivism, the Massachusetts supreme court rules that the parade is not an exercise of First Amendment rights and that compelling the parade organizers to comply with state law banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation did not raise any significant First Amendment issue.— Bench Memos
Yet activism is better than passivism, which means rolling over and letting bullies hurt me.— THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS
Given that the vast majority of law concerns these two areas, the real crisis in constitutional law is not judicial "activism" but judicial passivism.— Opinion Source: Delivering summaries of editorial and op-ed pieces from major papers by email.
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