Sentences with phrase «american legislative bodies»

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Ayesha Khan, legal director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which represents Galloway and Stephens in the lawsuit, said in a statement that «legislative bodies should focus on serving the community and stay out of the business of promoting religion.»

The American democratic procedures that have shaped the practice of Presbyterian polity were developed for ongoing legislative and judicial bodies, not for a one - week - and - done meeting of persons unfamiliar with both the matters at hand and each other.

That clause has a long history of interpretation that I shall not review here, but it certainly does not mean and has never meant the American state has no interest in or concern for religion, or churches either, for that matter, and it certainly does not me and politics have nothing to do with each other.8 To the extent the «wall of separation» image leads to those conclusions it distorts the entire history of the American understanding of religion and leads to such absurd conclusions as that religious congregations should have no tax exemption and legislative bodies should not be opened with prayer.

Larry Seabrook of the Bronx used to brag (dubiously) about being the first African - American to be elected to three different legislative bodies, though when you consider that the three districts he represented were all similarly - sized subsets of the same group of impoverished neighborhoods, his accomplishment becomes slightly less impressive than, say, Obama's.

The position is also responsible for managing environment, health and safety outreach programs, developing and updating literature and coordinating research projects as well as carrying out these projects in cooperation with the Center for Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) members, American Chemistry Council (ACC) staff and member groups, key downstream customer organizations and their members, regulatory and legislative bodies, and the polyurethane customer community to help bring awareness to users of MDI, TDI and polyols used in manufacturing polyurethane.

On August 6, 2012, the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates approved Resolution 100, urging «all state, territorial, and local legislative bodies and governmental agencies -LSB-...] to repeal breed discriminatory or breed specific provisions.»

«RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges all state, territorial, and local legislative bodies and governmental agencies to adopt comprehensive breed - neutral dangerous dog / reckless owner laws that ensure due process protections for owners, encourage responsible pet ownership and focus on the behavior of both dog owners and dogs, and to repeal any breed discriminatory or breed specific provisions.»

«Resolved, that the American Bar Association urges all state, territorial and local legislative bodies and government agencies to adopt comprehensive breed - neutral dangerous dog / reckless owner laws that ensure due process protections for owners, encourage responsible pet ownership and focus on the behavior of both dog owners and dogs, and to repeal any breed discriminatory or breed specific provisions.

No, we're not talking about the right - wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) efforts to push radically conservative corporative legislation through state legislative bodies (such as ALEC re climate change) but AlLegislative Exchange Council (ALEC) efforts to push radically conservative corporative legislation through state legislative bodies (such as ALEC re climate change) but Allegislative bodies (such as ALEC re climate change) but Alec Baldwin.

of the American Association of Law Librarians» Principles and Standards for Legal Research Competency provides that students should be able to «[i] dentif [y] appropriate resources to locate the legislative, regulatory, and judicial law produced by... government bodies.»

The American Association for Long - Term Care Insurance does not lobby legislative bodies.