This latter property is what enables investigators to calculate a margin of error.. To be precise, the laws of probability make it possible for us to calculate intervals of the form estimate +/- margin of error.
Congress can't reverse a US Supreme Court ruling, but they can rewrite an overturned law or can initiate a new constitutional amendment (must be ratified by 75 â¦ % of the states) to override the decision. They usually choose to rewrite the law, because it is extremely difficult to amend the Constitution.
overturn. 1  The act or process of overturning: the court's overturn of a ruling. 2  The state of having been overturned. 3  The periodic mixing or circulation of water in a lake or sea as a result of changing temperature of its layers.