The Founding Fathers possessed no settled doctrine to decide such controversies, so they proceeded with common sense.

Different jurists or legal analysts may order values in different hierarchies, which leads them to decide particular controversies differently.

Judicial power - the power to decide cases and controversies - is vested in the Supreme Court and inferior courts established by Congress.

Specifically, it is not the role of the GMC to decide medical controversies.

Locke saw civil society as people who have "a common established law and judicature to appeal to, with authority to decide controversies between them."

For where there is no judicature on earth to decide controversies amongst men, God in heaven is judge.

Although the courts are yet another equal branch of Government, they have long been recognized as having the authority to interpret the law and decide controversies involving the other branches.

Workers organize and assign members to the home meetings, appoint elders, and decide controversies among members.

With "Active Liberty," Stephen Breyer has offered a theory of democratic pragmatism that is very likely to play a powerful role in deciding such controversies.

The Court decides cases and controversies," he said - "some the way I like, some I don't.