Sentences with phrase «state encroachment»

In that regard we have been very successful and are seeing increasing success in preventing State encroachment into the doors of the churches or using that power and threat of violence (which is inherent in all State actions) from mandating you act according to their religious beliefs.

The Establishment Clause is the «teeth» that protects your individual religious freedom provided under the Free Exercise clause from State encroachment.

As with all really serious state encroachments into the private lives of citizens, the powers are buried deep in a legislative document and smoothed out with all sorts of euphemisms.

Not exact matches

New York will remain steadfast in pushing back against federal encroachment efforts like the [Office of the Controller of the Currency's] proposal to impose a one - size - fits - all national bank charter that increases risk and seeks to usurp state sovereignty.»

Thus the principal «political» task of the gentleman will be find ways of resisting the encroachments of the state into the family (while at the same time appreciating and encouraging its protections of our liberties), and for that he may need unsavory allies.

@SeanNJ, I would think the meetings would primarily be about educating the public on the separation of church and state and opposing religious encroachment on the public / government arena, e.g. creationism / ID in the science classroom, ten commandments displays in government buildings, school sanctioned prayer or religious activities.

This brings us face to face with a further change in society over recent years, namely the encroachment of the state upon religious freedom.

Although not without its idealist elements, the analytic starting point of this form of internationalism was a realist assessment of the mid-twentieth-century situation: Totalitarianism was a mortal peril to free societies and resisting its aggressive encroachments required the United States to take the lead in defense of the West, since Europe had unmanned itself in the two mid-century world wars.

The amendment was intended to safeguard the right of individuals to exercise freedom of conscience in religious matters against encroachment by the federal government, and to ensure that such concerns would remain under the control of the several states.

City planning should make ample provision for parks and trees, and federal and state parks and forests should be steadfastly maintained against all encroachments by commercial and utilitarian interests.

By the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomy.

Beecher spoke for a vast majority of the American Protestants when he said that these groups «constitute a sort of disciplined moral militia, prepared to act upon every emergency, and repel every encroachment upon the liberties and morals of the State.

We are doing everything possible to stop clashes between herdsmen and farmers over land encroachment during grazing, cattle rustling or other crimes in the state,» he said.

He plans to distinguish his campaign by focusing on his plan to combat the federal government's encroachments on state sovereignty.

And they say their concerns about potential pollution, overreliance on fracked gas and encroachment of historic sites and endangered species» habitats have been ignored by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agenState Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agenstate and federal agencies.

But legislators, already sour on Cuomo after a failed special session and aborted pay raise, as well as the rollout of his State of the State message and budget presentation, see the move as an unnecessary encroachment.

They say their concerns about potential pollution, overreliance on fracked gas and encroachment of historic sites and endangered species» habitats have been ignored by Governor Andrew Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation and other state and federal agencies.

General Orders No. 9 (Unrated) Cinematic portrait of the State of Georgia shot by first - time director Robert Persons who laments the escalating encroachment of urbanization on the South's natural habitats.

She contended that, coupled with a lack of funding for rural districts, the requirements amount to an encroachment on the state's local - control...

Most discouraging, Governor Scott Walker effectively has cast his lot with some Republican legislators who equate «accountability» with waves of regulatory encroachment on private schools in the state's parent choice programs.

Individual members of the GOP have to feel the hypocrisy of supporting state takeover in education while running on platforms against government encroachment in health care and taxes.

The former governor said the legal effort was about fighting the encroachment of the federal government on states» rights.

What the public missed Since attending a rally on Feb. 16 at Wekiwa Springs State Park, which was organized to emphasize the harmful effects of human encroachment in the area, I have felt compelled to express the impact the rally should have in eliminating some of the deteriorating conditions of the springs, rivers and aquifer.

Mike Cooper, city of Enid military liaison and chairman of Oklahoma Strategic Military Planning Commission, told the News & Eagle in October the state was at risk of losing its three Air Force bases if military airspace wasn't protected from encroachment.

Article 112 further states that: «Citizens are entitled to information on the state of the natural environment and on the effects of any encroachment on nature that is planned or carried out.»

It states that there is growing evidence that climate change significantly exacerbates other major human - induced pressures such as encroachment, deforestation, forest degradation, land - use change, pollution and overexploitation of wildlife resources.

Press release states: ``... approximately 90 % of USHCN stations were compromised by encroachment of urbanity in the form of heat sinks and sources...»

However, if the latter more expansive interpretation is followed, than this could represent the encroachment upon and disconnection of the predicative condition of Member State nationality for the acquisition and retention of EU citizenship.

The ICJ also stated that the best remedy for this inappropriate encroachment on the independence and integrity of the judiciary was to publically withdraw the public criticism of McLachlin, or offer an apology for doing so in the first place.

This interpretation by AERO also suggests that even if there was a federal rule authorizing drone flights below 500 feet, such regulation might very well be invalid as this would represent an encroachment on state - based property rights.

In 2012, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Jon Matonis argued in his Forbes article that «bitcoin prevents monetary tyranny» being a «powerful instrument» that challenges centralised monetary authority and the state's encroachment on privacy.

Although the job of finding out if the house is subject to any easements or encroachments etc are the lawyers responsibility., that is not to say that if such things come to the attention of the listing Realtor that they should not be stated in the listing.