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  • He exhorts decision makers in a legal system to make the fullest and most sensitive enquiries into the social implications of their potential decisions, and to manipulate legal rules and principles (which he refers to as miranda) in the inter - ests of maximizing values which serve human dignity on the national and international scene.

    CONCEPT OF LAW GRAHAM HUGHES 1968

  • He exhorts decision makers in a legal system to make the fullest and most sensitive enquiries into the social implications of their potential decisions, and to manipulate legal rules and principles (which he refers to as miranda) in the inter - ests of maximizing values which serve human dignity on the national and international scene.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

  • April 8th, 2010 at 6: 25 pm linzloo08 brought to you by I Want My Country Back, Inc.!! says: the poor troll says “I don’t need no stinkin miranda rights!”

    Think Progress » More Americans have a ‘favorable’ opinion of the IRS than of the Tea Party. 2010

  • Bachtrog also is completing assembly of the genome sequence for D. miranda, which is not among the 12 species of Drosophila currently targeted by the genome sequencing community.

    unknown title 2009

  • Bachtrog also is completing assembly of the genome sequence for D. miranda, which is not among the 12 species of Drosophila currently targeted by the genome sequencing community.

    Science Blog - Science news straight from the source 2009

  • Of course Obama would love it if we didn't read them the miranda rights because some judge would let his terrorist buddies go for civil rights violations.

    Holder says no need to read Miranda rights to bin Laden if captured 2010

  • Not unless you want to go against the law then individual rights or so called miranda rights must be read to all suspects.

    Rubio: Miranda rights could hamper terror investigations 2010

  • I thought the first miranda right is the right to be silent???

    Rubio: Miranda rights could hamper terror investigations 2010

  • Right after we read him his miranda rights and check to see how many tea party rallies he attended.

    Obama says 'justice will be done' in Times Square bombing 2010

  • If we are foolish enough to reelect Republicans, we will rapidly find ourselves embroied in another War, this time with Iran; Corporations will be in full control of our lives killing and poluting at will; more and more laws which restrict our rights at the whim of the Government; like the Patriot Act, revoking our citizenship on a "suspicion", denial of our miranda rights on "suspicion".

    Steele: Expect Republicans to raise questions about Kagan 2010

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