“Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world.” WorldYearsIdeasLastsLawCostLimitsHighestCongressCardsNo IdeaReasonableLast YearReservesTransactionsFeesProcessingFederal ReserveAmerican BusinessDebitDebit Cards Author:Peter Welch
“Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.” IfsThinkingNeedsGivingMindStatesLawOrderJusticeWhiteUnitedUnited StatesMinesParticularMembersFairsTasksVoteCourtAssumingCongressVariousConclusionCodeReasonableAdoptedProvisionMethodology Author:Antonin Scalia
“We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.” IfsMayActionLawPerfectWrittenIdentityIgnorancePossessionAssumptionReasonableTreatment Book:The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture Source: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
“In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.” KnowsWorldWayMindHeartWholeCareLawDesireChoicesSoundChristSinWalksPleasureJudgmentProsperityDeterminedReasonableRighteousWalking With God Author:Joseph Alleine
“A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.” ReasonLawJudgingFineReasonable Author:Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke