Points of Contention
As the subject of significant controversy, the idea of a Living Constitution is plagued by numerous conflicting contentions.
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Famous quotes containing the words points of, points and/or contention:
“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Type of the wise, who soar, but never roam
True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home!”
—William Wordsworth (17701850)
“It is my contention that civil disobedients are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.”
—Hannah Arendt (19061975)