Sentences with phrase «constitution guarantees protection»

Not exact matches

The most explicit statement of these limitations is in the Constitution's first ten amendments — the Bill of Rights — which guarantee freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition, the right to bear arms, protection against the obligatory quartering of soldiers, security from unwarranted search and seizure, the right to a grand jury, protection against double jeopardy and self - incrimination, the right of due process, just compensation for private property taken for public use, and speedy public trial by jury without excessive fines or bail.

«We support the protection of all Americans including the right to the free exercise of religion, as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.»

In its complaint, the state of Hawaii also said the executive order discriminates against Muslims and violates the equal protection and due process guarantees of the U.S. Constitution.

Both sides will benefit, Democrats would get Downstate (which in my humble opinion should be called the Commonwealth of New Amsterdam after the most progressive city in Europe and in reference to the city's history), a guaranteed two seats in the US Senate (+1 because Gillibrand did well Upstate in the last election, so 3 seats for the Democrats), guaranteed control of the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches, and the once in a lifetime opportunity to write a state constitution to their own liking (firearms rights applies only to military and police, right to choose for women, protections for LGBT New Yorkers, etc)

The petitioners have a strong likelihood of success in establishing that the removal of the petitioner and others similarly situated violates their rights to Due Process and Equal Protection guaranteed by the United States Constitution;

Governor Cuomo announced that he is proposing to guarantee a woman's right to choose in New York by adding the protections established by the 1973 Roe v. Wade federal decision into the state constitution.

Reed is also less troublesome to Lindseth to the extent that the court's decision was based on students» equal protection rights under the state constitution rather than on the guarantee of an adequate education.

Most of the cases relying on these rights have been about school funding, with the claim that unequal funding violates provisions in state constitutions that guarantee a right to an adequate education or provisions that promise equal protection.

The basic claim in this lawsuit is that California's handling of teacher tenure, dismissal, and the like are resulting in grossly ineffective teachers being placed in classrooms; that these teachers are disproportionately affecting low - income and minority students; and that this violates the California Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.

Despite the United States Constitution's guarantee of equal protection and due process, the State of Connecticut has created a public education system in which zip code and luck of the draw determine whether students have a shot at a quality public education.

The judge ruled that the tenure and other job protection laws for teachers violate the state constitution's guarantee that children receive «basic equality of educational opportunity.»

In essence, Judge Treu ruled that a quality education is guaranteed for all students in the state — which relies on effective teachers — and that anything less undermines the quality and violates the equal protection clause in the state constitution.

Instead of appealing to protections in the U.S. Constitution, plaintiffs have turned to state constitutions, most of which do include language that guarantees children the right to an education.

There isn't one specific provision in the California constitution that's violated, exactly: Rather, the court identifies three «pertinent» clauses in the constitution: a guarantee of equal protection under the law, a provision ordering the legislature to encourage «intellectual [and] scientific improvement,» and a requirement that the legislature «provide for a system of common schools.»

After Emancipation and the Civil War, the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the U.S. Constitution further guaranteed freedom, protection and civil rights to all African Americans — but not for long.

I am quite aware, sir, that history says the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery in the United States of America in 1865, and that ensuing amendments extended to former slaves the precious rights and protections our nation guarantees to all its citizens regardless of color.

The Government of Catalonia has announced that it will challenge the constitutionality of the Ley, on the basis that it is contrary to Article 24 of the Spanish Constitution, which guarantees effective judicial protection.

The lawsuit alleged that SSA's conduct violated the Social Security Act and the equal protection and due process guarantees of the U.S. Constitution.

Should this loophole (lack of a guarantee of adequate protection and defence of Her Majesty's Letters Patent) in our Constitution and its Charter be examined?

ANN does note that the Peruvian Constitution guarantees religious liberty, but the legislation appears to have included more specific protections, particularly for students.

However, there are certain protections that the Constitution guarantees individuals against unlawful searches.

Thus, it is important to know what protections the constitution guarantees you.

A state court is has the power to enforce greater protections to a person claiming rights, relying on the state's constitution, than those guaranteed under the federal constitution.

Although China's constitution formally guarantees freedom of expression and publication, as well as the protection of human rights, legal and administrative regulations ensure that the Chinese Communist Party will be supported in its attempt at strict supervision of all forms of media.

Your home, property, and person have protections guaranteed to you by the United States and Florida Constitutions.

plans to ensure the rights and protections guaranteed by the federal and state constitutions to criminal defendants, petitioners, and civil litigants are preserved;

Although Article III of the Constitution entrenches some protections for judges — the tenure and salary guarantees that were already protected in Great Britain by the Act of Settlement 1701 — prof. Groves shows that much of the architecture of judicial independence that observers of the American judiciary take for granted has no obvious foundation in the constitutional text.

Conceding that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to peremptory challenges and that Swain did state that their use ultimately is subject to the strictures of equal protection, the State argues that the privilege of unfettered exercise of the challenge is of vital importance to the criminal justice system.

The court ruled that the ban on gay adoption violated the Florida Constitution's guarantee of equal protection because it irrationally singled out for differential treatment gay parents and their would - be adoptive children.

That, in recognition that existing protections against racial discrimination have been overridden in relation to Indigenous peoples, the Commonwealth Government begin a constitutional process for the removal of section 25 of the Constitution and its replacement with a clause guaranteeing equality before the law and non-discrimination.

Since June 2015, marriage equality has been legal in every state across the U.S.. That's because a Supreme Court ruling determined that marriage is a guaranteed right that is protected under the U.S. Constitution and the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment.

After their case was consolidated with those of 28 other marriage equality plaintiffs from four states, the Court ruled 5 - 4 on June 26, 2015, that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same - sex couples under the due process and equal protection clauses in the Constitution.