And the House is a "majority rules" institution, so if Speaker Pelosi and her partisans want to ipse dixit their way to impeachment articles, no one can stop them.
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"Ipsa Dixit"—the title is Latin for "She herself said," and alludes to "ipse dixit," the legal term for a claim without proof—is an awesomely wide-ranging intellectual journey whose myriad subtleties register only with repeated viewings.
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What we have are partisan theatrics, proceeding under the ipse dixit of Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team Tillis says impeachment is 'a waste of resources' MORE (D-Calif.).
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"Then the rule comes out and says reporting to the Commission is not required, in an ipse dixit unreasoned opinion, one line, basically, and then we have two circuits that actually gave deference to that interpretation," Gorsuch said to Somers' counsel, Daniel Geyser.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero coined the phrase ipse dixit, which translates from the Latin as, "he said it himself" Ipse dixit (Latin for "he said it himself") is an assertion without proof; or a dogmatic expression of opinion.Whitney, William Dwight. (1906). "Ipse dixit", The Century dictionary and cyclopedia, pp. 379–380; Westbrook, Robert B. "John Dewey and American Democracy", p. 359.
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In the late 18th century, Jeremy Bentham adapted the term ipse dixit into the word ipse-dixitism.Bentham, Jeremy. (1834). Deontology; or, The science of morality, Vol. 1, p.
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I want to say that, in the first place, I have made > no charge of any sort upon my ipse dixit. I have only arrayed the evidence > tending to prove it, and presented it to the understanding of others, saying > what I think it proves, but giving you the means of judging whether it > proves it or not. This is precisely what I have done. I have not placed it > upon my ipse dixit at all.
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1974), Circuit Judge Wilkey considered that the Secretary of Transportation's "statement of the reasons for his conclusion that the requirements are practicable is not so inherently plausible that the court can accept it on the agency's mere ipse dixit". In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court recognized the problem of "opinion evidence which is connected to existing data only by the ipse dixit of an expert".Filan, citing General Electric Co. v. Joiner, 522 U.S. 136, 137; 118 S.Ct. 512; 139 L.Ed.2d 508 (1997).
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Likewise, the Texas Supreme Court has held "a claim will not stand or fall on the mere ipse dixit of a credentialed witness"."Burrow v. Arce," 997 S.W.2d 229, 235 (Tex. 1999). In 1858, Abraham Lincoln said in his speech at Freeport, Illinois, at the second joint debate with Douglas: > I pass one or two points I have because my time will very soon expire, but I > must be allowed to say that Judge Douglas recurs again, as he did upon one > or two other occasions, to the enormity of Lincoln,—an insignificant > individual like Lincoln,— upon his ipse dixit charging a conspiracy upon a > large number of members of Congress, the Supreme Court, and two Presidents, > to nationalize slavery.
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Gibson, 88 Above him is inscribed a quote from Psalm 33 reading "Ipse dixit, et facta sunt: ipse mandāvit, et creāta sunt"—For he spake and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.Dempsey, Charles. "Sicut in utrem aquas maris: Jerome Bosch's Prolegomenon to the Garden of Earthly Delights". MLN. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 119:1, January 2004. S247-S270.
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323; excerpt, "ipsedixitism ... comes down to us from an antique and high authority, —-it is the principle recognised (so Cicero informs us) by the disciples of Pythagoras. Ipse {he, the master, Pythagoras), ipse dixit, — he has said it; the master has said that it is so; therefore, say the disciples of the illustrious sage, therefore so it is." Bentham coined the term to apply to all non-utilitarian political arguments.Bentham, Jeremy. (1838).
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Judge Silver agreed with the Plaintiffs that the matching funds provision could not stand under Davis, although she referred to the result as "illogical" and referred to the holding in Davis as "an ipse dixit unsupported by the slightest veneer of reasoning to hide the obvious judicial fiat by which it is reached."Beard Rau, Alia and Mary Jo Pitzl.“Federal judge strikes down Ariz. Matching funds”, The Arizona Republic, January 21, 2010.
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From this, Hahnemann came to believe that all effective drugs produce symptoms in healthy individuals similar to those of the diseases that they treat, in accord with the "law of similars" that had been proposed by ancient physicians. This led to the name "homeopathy", which comes from the hómoios, "-like" and páthos, "suffering". The law of similars doctrine is called similia similibus curentur, or "like cures like". Hahnemann's law of similars is an ipse dixit that does not derive from the scientific method.
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L. Rev. 23 (1985). Although several sections of the Restatement contained new rules which sometimes contradicted existing law, courts citing these sections have predominantly adopted the Restatement's view, citing them as a court would cite statute or code.Gregory E. Maggs, Ipse Dixit: The Restatement (Second) of Contracts and the Modern Development of Contract Law, 66 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 508 (1998). Far more common, however, is the practice of citing the Restatement to clarify generally accepted doctrine in every major area of contract and commercial law.
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However, The Atlantic cited no references and no sources for their ipse dixit. It bore the name of its first editor, James Dunwoody Brownson DeBow (J. D. B. DeBow, 1820–1867) who wrote much in the early issues; however, there were various writers over the years (see below: Contributors). R. G. Barnwell and Edwin Q. Bell, of Charleston, appeared as editors in March 1867, after DeBow's death, A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery, 1873, Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail; p.
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Where the privilege breaches the provisions of the Constitution, the aggrieved party is entitled to seek redress from the courts, to which is entrusted the task of ensuring the supremacy of the Constitution. The certificate issued by the Speaker in terms of section 5 of the Powers and Privileges of Parliament ActAct 91 of 1963 had the effect of undermining the independence of the courts and interfering with their functioning. Section 5, therefore, was unconstitutional to the extent that it purported to place parliamentary privilege beyond judicial scrutiny, and thus beyond the supreme Constitution, on the mere ipse dixit of the Speaker. Nor, the court found, does Parliament have the power to act mala fide.
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The exercise of power conferred on the Assembly by section 57(1)(a) remains subject to the Constitution and subject to constitutional review by the Courts. Therefore, the court found, the contention that the mere issue of a certificate obliged the Court to stay proceedings, which should thereupon be deemed to be finalised, was untenable. To the extent that section 5 of the Powers and Privileges of Parliament Act purported to place issues of Parliamentary privilege beyond judicial scrutiny and thus beyond the supremacy of the Constitution on the mere ipse dixit of the Speaker, it was undoubtedly unconstitutional.456B--D. The court held section 5 of the Powers and Privileges of Parliament Act to be inconsistent with section 1(c) of the Constitution and the rule of law as founding values of the South African legal order.
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