Sentences with phrase «against emancipation»

You may also have to endure your parents or guardians offering evidence against your emancipation.

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The «prevailing Christian view» until relitively recently, would have been against any notion of the rapture, the equality of women, the emancipation of slaves, and a host of other things that most Christians today look back on with some disgust being attached to their religion's history.
For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»
In agreement with most nonteleological expressions in the liberal political tradition, this theory affirms that rights articulate a universal or natural moral law; but, against the persisting weight of the modern natural law tradition, the universal right to general emancipation is not bound to the assertion that human rights are independent of any inclusive good.
The condom has become a symbol of freedom and - along with contraception - female emancipation, so those who question condom orthodoxy are accused of being against these causes.»
But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
He opposed Catholic emancipation, Lords reform and supporting war against Napoleon and the abolition of the slave trade.
Anyone who has read Marx would know this isn't possible and goes against Marxist theory as Marx pointed out «the emancipation of the working class, must be the work of the workers themselves» and the last words in the «Communist Manifesto» are @workers of the world unite» (source)
Slaves organized a revolt against white slaveholders, taking up arms to seize Orleans territory in a quest for their own emancipation, but also to end slavery.
Gore got himself into trouble with black activists last month when he compared the fight against global warming to the emancipation of black slaves.
You may also be required to serve your parents or guardians a copy of this complaint, enabling them to also attend court and argue against your request for emancipation.
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