***T—Increase Create (Shell)*** Doesn’t Mean A. Negative Interpretation. is distinct from “Increase” “create”. WORDS AND PHRASES, 1960, 381. “Increased,” as used in that the stock and bonded West’s Ann.Cal. Const. art. 12, § 11, providing does not include or apply indebtedness of corporations shall not be increased without the consent of the person holding the larger amount of the stock, to the first creation To give it such meaning would be to inject into the provision the word “create.” of bonded indebtedness. B. Violation. The plan creates a new program, it increase an existing one. doesn’t C. Standards: 1) Fair Limits: Their interpretation allows them to create any exploration or development policy for any purpose—they should instead be required to defend existing policies and merely alter the size of them. 2) Precision: Increase is fundamentally different than create—making our interpretation more precise. D) Voting Issue: Fairness, Education, and Ground.
***T—Increase Doesn’t Mean Create (Shell)*** A. Negative Interpretation. “Increase” is distinct from “create”. WORDS AND PHRASES, 1960, 381. “Increased,” as used in West’s Ann.Cal. Const. art. 12, § 11, providing that the stock and bonded indebtedness of corporations shall not be increased without the consent of the person holding the larger amount of the stock, does not include or apply to the first creation of bonded indebtedness. To give it such meaning would be to inject into the provision the word “create.” B. Violation. The plan creates a new program, it doesn’t increase an existing one. C. Standards: 1) Fair Limits: Their interpretation allows them to create any exploration or development policy for any purpose—they should instead be required to defend existing policies and merely alter the size of them. 2) Precision: Increase is fundamentally different than create—making our interpretation more precise. D) Voting Issue: Fairness, Education, and Ground.
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