Sentences with phrase «american liberty»

A fair and impartial justice system is the foundation of American liberty.

The tea party and the hard right have made it easy to dismiss their side of the national debate about American liberty.

This was to allow for the experiment in American liberty to flourish: Safeguarding American exceptionalism at home was the ultimate goal.

He provides an abundance of statistics in essays on capitalism and public policy (though some would benefit from updated numbers), and he undertakes a more abstract form of analysis in contemplating Europe's decline and the roots of American liberty.

But, when members of the government start shutting down businesses because the proprietors don't toe the politically correct line, I think that is an obvious transgression of American liberty.

Because freedom from slavery and oppression were dominant themes in the Old Testament, the legacy of Israel and Judah nourished American liberty.

Of course, for Protestants, the fate of the United States and the fate of American Protestantism have been deeply intertwined from the very beginning, so adherence to the civic project must stem not simply from confidence that American liberty was generally hospitable to the flourishing of Christianity but from a deep, if inchoate, conviction that the American experiment itself was the political outworking of a Protestant sense of «nature and nature's God.»

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

The distressing threats to religious liberty in recent years have therefore been both an extension of and a break with the principles of American liberty, because those principles are themselves not perfectly coherent.

Black History Month is certainly an appropriate time to reflect upon this «great cloud of witnesses» who surround us — the spirits of all those who constitute the pantheon of American liberty and equality.

that is a new place and that is going to be a bad place for American liberty, and I think, at that point, it's effectively game over for the United States of America.

Here are some more fragments from my current prospectus for my five conceptions of American liberty book, the basics of which are sketched in the post below.

In place of traditional American liberty based on the principles of limited government, Obamacarians are erecting a bureaucratic state, complete with centralized control, cronyism, ideological impositions, benefits to favored constituencies, ever increasing dependencies, spiced with an anti religion agenda that would force religious non profits and charities to choose between their service missions and following the precepts of their faith (through the Free Birth Control / Sterilization / Abortifacient Rule for now, more later).

I'm currently laying the groundwork for a book on American liberty, in which I argue there are five fundamental conceptions of it, one of which is the «economic individualist» liberty....

He refers to the ban as «inconsistent with traditional American liberties.»

Not exact matches

«Our stance in support of the liberties of peaceful, personal expression afforded to all Americans will remains strong and we will continue to encourage our players to respectfully use their earned platform to inspire positive change in our nation and throughout society.»

It cost a lot of money, it was an excuse to violate the civil liberties of a lot of Americans, and it challenges the notice that people get to make their private choices.

«This really puts at risk both the security and liberty of the American people,» said Senator Ron Wyden, D - Oregon.

Although Paul's filibuster was technically against Brennan's nomination, his remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.

But just as Green insinuated, the Trump administration has enacted, or has hinted at enacting, policies that rankle Americans of all political stripes, precisely because they could be used to encroach upon personal liberties.

It should not be difficult for companies to extend EU practices and policies elsewhere because they already have systems in place, said Nicole Ozer, director of technology and civil liberties at the American Civil Liberties Union of California.

Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Ms. Lasdon served as Deputy Director of Research for People for the American Way Foundation, where she published research on civil rights and civil liberties issues.

Featured The Satoshi Revolution: A Revolution of Rising Expectations.Section 2: The Moral Imperative of PrivacyChapter 6: Privacy is a Prerequisite of Human Rights Privacy is the Virtue that Sparked the American Revolution, Chapter 6, Segment 2 A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.

I have a peculiar framework for thinking about the American idea of liberty, which I first developed for a class, but which I'm now hoping to develop into a book.

It's equally foolish to accept it at face value and underestimate the great achievements of liberty and law that we as Americans rightly take pride in and must work to protect.

CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.

This congress and Administration have violated that definition and Oath to protect the liberties and freedoms of the American people.

So alongside my rock songbook, I'm inaugurating here a new series about the American idea of liberty.

Metaxas explains that the US is not bound by ethnic identity or geography, but by a radical idea based on liberty and freedom for all, and that Americans must reconnect with this idea or risk losing the foundation of what made the US exceptional in the first place.

«Does the American Conservative Union really think the liberties and values they seek to preserve can be maintained when they partner with individuals and organizations that are undermining the understanding that our liberties come from God?

The U.S. must more robustly lead a coalition that includes our natural allies on these issues, including Latin American and sub-Saharan African nations, in identifying and sanctioning gross religious liberty abusers worldwide.

Everyone's screaming about individual rights and liberties — this ruling supports the individual american in their choices to use or not use contraception!!

Mr. Martin writes:»... being American means embracing the ideals of the Founding Fathers, which include pluralism, rule of law, and civil liberties.»

If Americans come to believe, after being influenced by the likes of Epstein, Bernstein, Barnett, Mayer, etc., and it looks like you also, that liberty of contract is a natural right, then I say, let them pass a new amendment enforcing it (and note, I'm for easier amendment in general).

That is the key thing for us, but I'll add that they are right to suspect that economic individualism was (and is) a real creed for not a few Americans, even though that actual creed went beyond what its purported official spokespersons put forth (I think usually sincerely) in the name of natural rights and constitutional liberty.

I've been gratified by the encouraging response given my initial American Liberty posts, in which I outline my theory of the five American conceptions of liberty.

One reason that Americans must work to protect life, religious liberty, and marriage is that other Americans are hard at work undermining these values.

The natural rights principles are central and primary, but they do not capture the broader vision of liberty Americans had from the beginning, let alone the dialogic conflict between various conceptions of liberty that developed over time.

The «Robber Barons» were no robbers and their greed was exaggerated, natural right - grounded classic liberals rejected Social Darwinism, and men like Justice Peckham who «discovered» and defended the liberty of contract were good men attuned to what might plausibly be derived from a natural development of American jurisprudence.

At Public Discourse today, I explain what led the Left to rebuke the authentically American understanding of religious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act:

To other Bloomington residents, the sexual preference amendment signaled a victory for human justice and civil liberties in keeping with the spirit of American democracy.

During that period and down to today, conservatives and neoconservatives challenged Americans to bear great burdens to «assure the survival and the success of liberty,» as Kennedy had put it in his inaugural address, while many liberals who claimed the Kennedy mantle promoted various forms of neo-isolationism.

We should not forget that part of the Sixties that called the American people to live nobly in the defense and promotion of liberty, rightly understood.

At Public Discourse today, I explain what led the Left to rebuke the authentically American understanding of religious liberty after the 1993 passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act: Understanding why religious liberty became politically controversial requires more than just identifying....

Our atheocracy has rejected what Chesterton called the dogmatic basis of American identity and liberties.

Thus while FBI's COINTELPRO prying violated the civil liberties of Americans unjustly suspected of subversion, the CIA was conspiring to overthrow governments abroad, fix their elections, and assassinate their leaders.

«The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people,» said Rubio, a Florida Republican.

The Romney / Ryan ticket has courted this group, saying the Obama White House has attacked religious liberty and American values.

George Will argues that American politics is divided between conservatives, «who take their bearings from the individual's right to a capacious, indeed indefinite, realm of freedom» and progressives «whose fundamental value is the right of the majority to have its way in making rules about which specified liberties shall be respected.»

It's not that the various new births of liberty have been chosen by Americans.