Event Title

Foreword

Presenter Information

Warren E. Burger

Location

Duke Law School

Start Date

6-3-1987 8:45 AM

End Date

6-3-1987 9:15 AM

Description

Many statutes are genuinely ambiguous, either because of imprecise drafting or legislative compromise. Ambiguity does not, however, make the effort to respect the division of responsibility between the legislative and judicial branches any less important, for respect of that division is what the Constitution itself requires.

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Warren E. Burger, Foreword, 1987 Duke Law Journal 361-361 (1987)

Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol36/iss3/1

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Foreword

Duke Law School

Many statutes are genuinely ambiguous, either because of imprecise drafting or legislative compromise. Ambiguity does not, however, make the effort to respect the division of responsibility between the legislative and judicial branches any less important, for respect of that division is what the Constitution itself requires.