Sentences with phrase «against arbitrary power»
That same phrase, «the doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind,» is found in both the Maryland and Tennessee Constitutions.
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It implies the rejection of civil rights for blacks, votes for women, the abolition of slavery, the abolition of property requirements for voting; it implies the rejection of the whole historical march against arbitrary difference and power.
Our will to transcend nature through projects of mastery mounts a rebellion against the natural constraints of the organic human body, harnessing the power of technological innovations to render it the instrument of our arbitrary will.
This includes reconnecting with an English socialism that grew out of the struggles for land and for the ownership of one's own labour against the forces of the market and of arbitrary power.
It is this struggle that we are fighting today against arbitrary state power, and we invite scholars from all over the world to join us.
The case presented an opportunity for the Court, as the Advocate General had put it, «to balance the functional benefits and independence of agencies against the possibility of them becoming «uncontrollable centres of arbitrary power»» (para 19).