4.4 Construction Ut Res Magis Valeat Quam Pereat

"It is better that a thing be of some effect than be destroyed": the construction that keeps the provision alive — the validity-preserving reading (the provision read to operate, not to fail). The canon's uses: the seemingly-conflicting provisions' reconciliation; the constitutional provisions' survival reading (the U5.1.2 face); the conditions (the words can bear the saving sense — the canon serves the text, never rewrites it).