Meanings
- not comparableThat can be overruled.
That leaves, to distinguish the rock-solid, unamendable disposition of Roe from the readily overrulable Bowers, only the third factor.
2003, Lawrence v. Texas (U.S. Supreme Court No. 02-102), Justice Scalia dissenting2 more examples
On this level of generality we reason about rights not in a doctrinally fixed but in a prima facie way, that is, as qualifiable or overridable, though not (and this is a crucial point) as directly overrulable rights.
1984, Samuel J. Stoljar, An Analysis of Rights, London: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 48, →ISBNAny groupist or selfish aggression or competitiveness and so on humans naturally tend to feel is only a tendency or a latent potential, not an inevitability. Emotions here are overrulable or redirectable.
2016, Kym Farrand, Morally and Otherwise Right Lives, Education and Upbringing, Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 175, →ISBN
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