in an important way, splits off into a special category agency efforts to expend resources on economic entitlements through aggressive statutory interpretation from other sorts of ambitious or "
latitudinarian" agency actions.
(15.) I owe this interpretation of Mandeville as an Arminian or, in the English context, a
Latitudinarian to Arne C.
In Chapter 7 the authors give examples of the Seminary Professor at Maynooth grappling with pedantic matters of Canon Law in the Irish Ecclesiastical Review, but equally of his more
latitudinarian approach to the practicalities of episcopal discipline.
The correct inquiry, however, is the one suggested by James Madison that runs between the
latitudinarian rational basis test favored by Hamilton and the strict necessity standard favored by Jefferson.
The pursuit of perfection is usually foredoomed, but the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, which has a
latitudinarian understanding of ethical behavior, has a perfectly awful idea.
New alignments formed, composed of the various approaches that had failed to achieve a stable hegemony: "strict construction"-composed of historical, textual and structural elements--vied with a congeries of allegedly more
latitudinarian forms--doctrinal, prudential, and ethical methods of interpretation--that its opponents ingenuously decried as "judicial activism." But this simplifying, contrapuntal division made the problem posed by Legal Realism harder, because there was no legal reason to prefer one set of approaches to another beyond the claim that each made that it alone was lawful, on its terms.
Roderick Chisholm, Ernest Sosa, and Michael McKinsey have defended "
latitudinarian," "descriptivist," or what this paper calls "liberal" answers to that question.
Else you will secure unity of form at the loss of unity of doctrine, or unity of doctrine at the loss of unity of form; you will have to choose between a comprehension of opinions and a resolution into parties, between
latitudinarian and sectarian error."
He observes that it is not so much infected yet by the
latitudinarian ethics, liberal guilt complex, aversion to conversion, and capitulation to social forces that plague mainline Protestantism.