Resolution resolved: The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance. Violations

curtail means stopping something

Cambridge 15 (Definition of curtail from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/american-english/curtail

Curtail verb [T] us /kərˈteɪl/

› to reduce or limit something, or to stop something before it is finished: He had to curtail his speech when time ran out.

CURTAIL DOES NOT MEAN ABOLISH OR ELIMINATE

Curtail does not include abolish

Goldberg 83 Steven Goldberg, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center;

Washington Law Review APRIL, 1983 58 Wash. L. Rev. 343 SYMPOSIUM ON ENERGY ISSUES IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST: UNCONSCIONABILITY IN A COMMERCIAL SETTING: THE ASSESSMENT OF RISK IN A CONTRACT TO BUILD NUCLEAR REACTORS. lexis

Indeed, thorough interpretation will require a court to examine the hell-or-high-water clause carefully in the context of the entire contract. The clause does not, for example, speak of "termination" of the projects even though that term is used elsewhere in the agreement. n11 Indeed, the clause, rather than speaking of "termination" or "cancellation," speaks only of "reduction or curtailment . . . in whole or in part." n12 These words might cover the ending of the projects, but it is worth noting that as basic a source as Black's Law Dictionary defines curtail as "to shorten, abridge, diminish, lessen, or reduce; and . . . has no such meaning as abolish." n13