Sentences with phrase «american citizens the right»

The crown legislative achievement of Obama's first term was a proposed large scale overhaul granting all American citizens the right to health care.

Generally, the Second Amendment, so the argument goes, guarantees American citizens the right to bear arms, aka carry firearms.

Not exact matches

«I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.»

Sessions himself has said a «properly exercised» Civil Rights Division «provides tremendous benefit to American citizens» but should not be used as «a sword to assert inappropriate claims that have the effect of promoting political agendas.»

The move also drew condemnation from the League of United Latin American Citizens, the nation's oldest Hispanic civil rights organization.

But Sharif, an American citizen with Bangladeshi roots, was right about one thing: bribes were standard practice in Bangladesh.

She continued: «They just up and announced that I was prohibited from speaking anyway... I feel like the Constitution is important and that taxpayer - supported universities should not be using public funds to violate American citizens» Constitutional rights.»

Some American companies offer a Canadian data storage option in response to market demand and governments should continue to have freedom to protect citizens» information and privacy rights as they see fit, Gogolek says in the submission, part of federal consultations on the NAFTA renegotiation.

Maybe when Christians stop toting themselves as the moral authority on EVERYTHING and keep their noses out of peoples personal lives AND stop trying to keep taxpaying American citizens from having rights (ie gays)... maybe then they will come into less ridicule.

American rights do not extend to citizens of other lands you have your own «rights» in canada which denies its citizens a lot of what we have.

The Supreme Court decided that money = speach and that corporations have the same rights as American citizens!

No, they don't want to have holidays or say the pledge of allegiance but they have no problem citing 1st Amendment rights in going door to door pushing their religion down people's throats or getting out of their responsibilties as American citizens by showing respect to the flag.

It also prevents a majority from easily taking away the rights of minorities for it's third primary function of protecting individual liberties of American citizens, whether they belong to a majority or a minority we are to be equal under the law.

However, are not the people (or at least most of them) putting together this center & mosque also Americans, or immigrants wishing to become citizens, and therefore covered by the same right of freedom of religion that you and I enjoy?

In his foreword to Venkatesh's book, Wilson speaks of the rights denied to American citizens to «basic economic welfare and security.»

Let's focus on what is really important; stopping tax paying American citizens from having rights that don't affect us.»

Right - wing Christians, en masse, don't believe or accept that our President is a Christian and an American citizen.

Are atheists not American citizens with a right to express their views publicly?

I guess what I'm getting at is that freedom of speech is a protected right of American citizens and so this guy has a right to say whatever he wants but please don't try and dress it up in some pretty bow and claim that it isn't an attack or an attempt to prove Christians wrong.

But the American principle of expansion remained political; the intention was almost always that new territory be incorporated into the nation and that its inhabitants take on the rights and duties of American citizens.

The series leaves it to the viewer to decide whether «the religious right» is a frightening invasion of the aliens or an instance of citizens seeking redress of just grievances and, along the way, rejuvenating the American democratic experiment.

In 1947 a group of American blacks led by W. E. B. Du Bois, under the auspices of the NAACP, had appealed to the UN to redress «the denial of human rights to minorities in the case of citizens of Negro descent in the United States of America.»

This man can characterize «the fight to uphold traditional marriage» however he wants to — but at the end of the day he is fighting to deny basic rights to american citizens.

There are 260 million americans and a bill of rights and many millions of gun owners who have nothing to do with mass shooting yet you want to make the difference by banning something that affects 3 million plus law abiding citizens... to stop.008 % of murders???

This country was founded on freedom of religion and individual rights... i personally don't give a hoot... what denomination a individual is as long as he or she is a good honest caring American citizen... I remember JFK, everyone said no one would vote for a Catholic..

only americans is the average citizen has the right to bear arms.

Standing up for the rights of every single American citizen is his job.

No one here probably knows about it, but AA formed and existed in the time when atheists were seen as exceptionally evil without the rights of other human beings or American citizens.

Then he turned to more individualistic terms to define fairness as «a bargain in American life»: «When you work hard and pay your taxes; when you're a good parent and citizen; when you obey the law and play by the rules you have a right to expect certain things in exchange, as a part of the bargain.

They might ask for the restoration of some civil rights taken away from American citizens through the Patriot Act.

right cause muslims are the new african americans cause they have not been allowed to build any mosque and do not have the same rights as every other us citizen.

Any American who doesn't think ISLAM and America are at odds with our values should only look and see what Most Muslim countries look like, Iran, Pakistan, Saudia Arabia, no freedom at all, women all second class citizens, sharia law, women stoned, gays killed got just being gay, all other religious mininorties are oppressed and could be killed at any time, and deny all rights.

There is nothing American about showing your citizens that you are armed and ready to squash their right to protest.

Additional testimony also in support came from the American Civil Liberties Union - New Hampshire, Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin King, The New Hampshire Citizens Alliance, the New Hampshire Breastfeeding Rights Coalition, the New Hampshire Departments of Labor and Public Health, the NHBTF, the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center and New Hampshire Voices for Health.

As American citizens we have the «right to know» what we are paying for.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, in a federal district court in Washington, D.C., the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a brief requesting that a federal judge not dismiss a case of litigation against senior CIA and military officials for the 2011 targeted killing of Anwar al - Awlaki (a suspected al - Qaeda leader) and his 16 - year - old son, both U.S. citizens.

This referendum is an attempt to chip away at our right, as American citizens, to keep and bear arms.

(CNN) Puerto Ricans who voted for US statehood in a non-binding referendum Sunday are «claiming our equal rights as American citizens,» Puerto Rico's governor says.

Katko said the bill is flawed because the no - fly list has mistakenly included law - abiding citizens over the years, and the ban would violate the due process rights of Americans.

If corporations are made up of people... and international corporations are made up of people from different countries... then how do international corporations have the right to free speech in America, considering that their employees aren't all American citizens?

Under the Constitution's construction, the right to keep and bear arms is universal to all American citizens and is, therefore, transferable from state to state.

American Citizens have the right to determine the destiny of towns, villages, cities, states and the country,» Long said.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, she voted against the repealing of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» legislation, opposed legislation that would grant equal tax treatment for employer - provided health coverage for domestic partners, opposed legislation to grant same - sex partners of U.S. citizens and permanent residents the same immigration benefits of married couples and opposed legislation to permit state Medicaid programs to cover low - income, HIV - positive Americans before they develop AIDS.

Franken focused the substance of his opening remarks on the impact of the courts on Americans» lives - and told the packed hearing room that he sees challenges to the rights of Americans as citizens and voters.

The well armed, trained and fearless American citizen determines their own freedom, with no need of permission by you now or ever, so long as they affirm their rights as a freedom loving people, through their willingness to defend and preserve it, as valorously did the Minute Men at Lexington and Boston.

Nigeria does not have to handle the Fulani herdsmen the way gun violence is being handled in America, where after a demented gunman kills over 50 people and kills himself, the matter is allowed to rest; nothing happens in terms of gun control because the American citizen has a right to carry guns.

Polls show a vast majority of Americans want to know what's in their food and how it is grown — the right enjoyed by the citizens of 64 other nations.

Oprah Winfrey, Common, Martin Sheen, and Cuba Gooding Jr. also play supporting roles, with Winfrey making the biggest impression as a Annie Lee Cooper, a woman fighting tooth and nail for her right to vote as an American citizen (she was also a producer on the film).

From the Standing Rock protests to the battle for Oak Flat, this docuseries from Viceland expertly investigates the ongoing environmental rights struggles still facing many Native American and indigenous citizens.

This worksheet links with a Web site that identifies legal documents that ensure the rights of American citizens.