# Statutory term analysis

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'''Statutory term analysis''' is a method of analyzing a statutory term in a [law](/source/law) to ensure that it is [Congress](/source/United_States_Congress), not a [judge](/source/judge), who has the power to make laws under Article I, section 8, clause 18 of the U.S. Constitution (the [Necessary and Proper Clause](/source/Necessary_and_Proper_Clause)).  The '''Statutory Term Analysis (STA) method''' includes using only the text of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20030406080226/http://www.gpoaccess.gov/crecord/index.html United States Congressional Record] as [evidence](/source/evidence) of the legal meaning of a term in a [federal statute](/source/federal_law) and provides new detailed [federal rules of evidence](/source/federal_rules_of_evidence) to a [judge](/source/judge) on how the [judge (or judges)](/source/judge) is to consider the timing, weight, and order of analysis of that [evidence](/source/evidence) in the [court-issued opinion](/source/judicial_opinion).{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

Category:Law of the United States
Category:Statutory law
Category:Legal interpretation

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