The Only Use of
strict construction
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- But Atticus had once told us that in Judge Taylor's court any lawyer who was a strict constructionist on evidence usually wound up receiving strict instructions from the bench.
p. 214.9strict constructionist = a philosophy of judicial interpretation that restricts judges in their inferences
Definition:
a philosophy of judicial interpretation that restricts judges in their inferences so that (in Robert Bork's words) we do not move from a "rule of law to a rule of judges"