Severable (sev-er-a-bul)
Severable is defined as: Capable of being severed or separated; separable into legally distinct rights or obligations, as a contract.
Synonyms: divisive, divisible, separable
What does Judge Roger Vinson think:
“Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void.”
Can you give some examples?
Example 1: When contracts are written, especially lengthy ones, there are many components to that contract. If a conflict occurs between the parties over or an outside person challenges one component of the agreement it puts the remainder of the contract in jeopardy. Attorneys often include a severability clause into the agreement stating that if one part of the agreement is deemed null/void then the rest of the contract shall remain. As an example:
My own personnel experience with public education was limited to a year in kindergarten at Horace Mann school. The building still stands today, but no education going on in there anymore unless you consider stabbings and shootings and in particular how to avoid them education. My parents enrolled me in a private educational system starting if first grade. Before you get all twisted the private education was Catholic Schools in which I spent the next twelve years. Going to Catholic grade school was certainly convenient as I could walk there and there certainly was discipline
really say, “Let them eat cake” when told that the peasants did not have bread? Did the peasants have their fill when they later said “off with her head?”
