{'index': 11, 'text': ' Confucius\ntaught that marriage lies at the foundation of government.\n2 Li Chi: Book of Rites 266 (C. Chai & W. Chai eds., J.\nLegge transl. 1967). This wisdom was echoed centuries\nlater and half a world away by Cicero, who wrote, “The\nfirst bond of society is marriage; next, children; and then\nthe family.” See De Officiis 57 (W. Miller transl. 1913). (...) It is fair and necessary to say these references\nwere based on the understanding that marriage is a union\nbetween two persons of the opposite sex. (OBERGEFELL v. HODGES, Opinion of the Court, p. 4, https://glad-org-wpom.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obergefell-scotus-decision.pdf). For example, marriage was once viewed as an arrangement by the couple’s parents based on political, religious,\nand financial concerns; but by the time of the Nation’s\nfounding it was understood to be a voluntary contract\nbetween a man and a woman. See N. Cott, Public Vows: A\nHistory of Marriage and the Nation 9–17 (2000); S.\nCoontz, Marriage, A History 15–16 (2005)  (OBERGEFELL v. HODGES, Opinion of the Court, p. 6, https://glad-org-wpom.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obergefell-scotus-decision.pdf). Suggesting that marriage is a right “older than the\nBill of Rights,” Griswold described marriage this way:\n“Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse,\nhopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred. It is an association that promotes a way of\nlife, not causes; a harmony in living, not political\nfaiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose\nas any involved in our prior decisions. ” Id., at 486.\n\n'}
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Sentence: The legal meaning of “land” when Congress enacted the relevant statutes was “any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever.” Black's Law Dictionary 1019 (4th ed. 1968). The ordinary meaning of land was much the same. Webster's New International Dictionary 1388 (2d ed. 1949) (“The solid part of the surface of the earth, as distinguished from water”; “Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever ... and everything annexed to it, whether by nature ... or by man”).
Term: land

Sentence: And ordinarily “trafficking” means some sort of commercial dealing. See Black's Law Dictionary 1534 (8th ed.2004) (defining *54 to “traffic” as to “trade or deal in (goods, esp. illicit drugs or other contraband)”)
Term: traffic

Sentence: "But even petitioner concedes, with its preferred dictionary in hand, that the word “decision” can also mean *306 “something short of a statement of reasons explaining a determination.” 
Term: decision

Sentence: To show that the dealing in bills of exchange is banking, Mr. Vande Gruff cited Postlethwait's Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, titles Discount, Banking. 15 Johns. Rep. 390. Tomlin's Law Dictionary, title Bank.
Term: banking

Sentence: A non obstante provision thus was a useful way for legislatures to specify that they did not want courts distorting the new law to accommodate the old. ...G. Jacob, A New Law Dictionary (J. Morgan ed., 10th ed. 1782) (definition of “statute,” ¶ 6: “[W]hen there is a seeming variance between two statutes, and no clause of non obstante in the latter, such construction shall be made that both may stand”).
Term: statute

Sentence: "If, as the Director asserts, the term 'assessment,' by itself, signfified '[t]he entire plan or scheme fixed upon for charging or taxing, the TIA would not need the words 'levy' or 'collection,' the term 'assessment,' alone, would do all the necessary work." Hibbs v. Winn, 542 U.S. 88, 101, 124 S.Ct. 2276, 2286 (2004). 
Term: assessment

Sentence: In the majority opinion of the supreme court of Arkansas the definition of hawkers and peddlers, as understood at common law, was recognized,-as one who goes from house to house or place to place, carrying his merchandise with him, which he concurrently sells and delivers (2 Bouvier's Law Dict. 642),
Term: hawkers and peddlers

Sentence: After citing to numerous legal authorities and the law dictionary, "I omit further citations of authorities, which are numerous, to prove that, according to the settled usages and modes of proceeding existing under the common and statute law of England at the settlement of this country, information in capital cases was not consistent with the ‘law of the land’ or with due process of law.'" at 296
Term: information

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