Product Liability: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Consumer of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, September 12 and 19, 1991, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992 - 234 páginas |
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Página 52 - It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
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Página 197 - It is established that a law fails to meet the requirements of the Due Process Clause if it is so vague and standardless that it leaves the public uncertain as to the conduct it prohibits or leaves judges and jurors free to decide, without any legally fixed standards, what is prohibited and what is not in each particular case.
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Página 170 - Is it necessary for your liberty that you should abandon those great rights by the adoption of this system ? Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty ? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings — give us that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else...
Página 53 - ... from state to state, all without recourse to Congress on most matters. Diversity and pluralism are, in short, the suppositions (one may say 'the very essence') of federalism. They are its nature, not its aberration, ie, not a condition which, when it appears, enables Congress to take over the field." Van Alstyne, "Federalism, Congress, the States and the Tenth Amendment: Adrift in the Cellophane Sea,
Página 172 - That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.
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Página 63 - The views and conclusions expressed here, of course, are my own and should not be interpreted as representing those of the Rand Corp.
Página 227 - CFR § 183.29 (1984). These representatives are typically employees of aircraft manufacturers who possess detailed knowledge of an aircraft's design based upon their day-today involvement in its development. See generally Improving Aircraft Safety pp.