Sentences with phrase «against the constitution of»

According to this indestructible hope the Spirit of the Church will always provide sufficiently for a faithful people as his body and thus prevent a revolution against the constitution of the Church that would destroy her.

Kaduna State chapter of the party described Sheriff's reinstatement by the appellate court as an act of impunity, which was against the constitution of the party.

Kekemeke, who had complained to the South - West zonal office of the party over the matter, however, said he was never removed as the chairman, maintaining that the action of the SEC against him was against the constitution of the party.

They are mandated to jail, detain and deny bail to any perceived enemy of the regime even when this means going against the Constitution of Nigeria.

A neo-Communist insurrection against the Constitution of the United States.

Not exact matches

A nationwide assortment of state cybersecurity regulations «raises the issue of whether such regulations violate the U.S. Constitution's «dormant» Commerce Clause, which restricts states» ability to discriminate against or unduly burden interstate commerce,» write Matthew A. Schwartz and Corey Omer for the Clearing House, a banking and payments trade group.

Half a million people took to the streets of Romania against the Romanian government's plans to tinker with the constitution.

By selling the bonds to Monaco, investors were trying to get around the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which says, «The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.»

They said the new version still discriminates against Muslims in violation of the U.S. Constitution.

Many provinces have intervened in the case against Comeau, while a team of lawyers with an interest in the constitutional issues offered to represent him for free, and the Canadian Constitution Foundation volunteered its assistance.

Irish women will mark the day with a strike in protest against the eighth amendment of the Irish Constitution, which bans abortion.

OC Weekly's R. Scott Moxley characterizes the more extensive program shown in the new filings as an effort «to sidestep the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against warrantless invasions of private property.»

Trump asks judge to dismiss emoluments lawsuit against him: «President Donald Trump has asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of violating the Constitution's Emoluments Clause related to private payments from other governments.

Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles - based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

When someone calls that Imam one of the most evil people on the planet, when someone says he wants to build his center to train terrorists, when someone calls for amending the constitution to exclude Islam, when someone says our founding fathers wanted this to be a Christian nation and that they didn't want Muslims included, when Muslims are afraid to go out because they will be attacked, when Christian pastors are preaching against Muslims (as opposed to the belief in Islam), THAT is hatred.

But there are plenty of ways of identifying those abuses without misinterpreting the Constitution and further weakening its barriers against an all - encompassing government.

And the court has given states broad immunity from being sued in any court for money damages — for example, for infringing a patent or discriminating against older or disabled state employees — even though the Constitution limits this immunity only to suits in federal court by a citizen of a different state.

Oh boy, care to explain how you think one small ruling is going to impact the Constitution when so much has already gone against the hype of your belief system?

On the basis of the First Amendment, as well as the general principles of the Constitution, he opposed public payment for chaplains in Congress and the military, spoke out against national proclamations of days of prayer (though as president he did «recommend» them) and while president vetoed congressional efforts to incorporate churches in the District of Columbia (fullest statement, V: 103 - 105) At the same time, Madison frequently opined that it was appropriate for private citizens to support chaplains and various kinds of semiorganized public religion through voluntary contributions (V: 104,105)

This untoward result - interpreting a Constitution intended to guarantee religious liberty as requiring affirmative discrimination against people of faith - would seem to be the necessary result of a doctrine of separation that invalidates government action that lacks a «secular purpose» or has the effect of «advanc [ing]... religion» (Lemon v. Kurtzman [1970]-RRB-.

The Chief Justice, in dissent, complained about the majority's «entirely gratuitous» aspersions against supporters of traditional marriage: «It is one thing for the majority to conclude that the Constitution protects a right to same - sex marriage; it is something else to portray everyone who does not share the majority's «better informed understanding» as bigoted.»

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.

After antifederalist riots at Carlisle, Franklin returned to the scene with a satire against the rioters, comparing them to the ancient Jews who rejected a constitution handed down by God and «recorded in the most faithful of all Histories, the Holy Bible.»

By republican structure, of course, I mean the separation of powers and the elaborate checks and balances that the founders of our country wrote into the Constitution as the main bulwarks against dictatorship and tyranny, which they greatly feared.

But it is important to add that when the framers of the Constitution envisioned the rough - and - tumble world of public argument, they almost certainly imagined heated disagreements against a background of broadly shared values; certainly that was the model offered by John Locke.

The reason of Jefferson and Paine and of what Henry May calls the Moderate Enlightenment that informed the Constitution did not rebel against the providential order, but at most rejected the received ways of understanding that order» tradition, authority, revelation, scripture» in favor of trusting in fresh human intellect.

Shepard goes to great lengths to show the negative consequences of ordering human societies in ways that work against our genetic constitution.

The declaration highlighted that, despite the Russian Constitution guaranteeing every citizen the right to freedom of religion or belief, Russian authorities «continue to foster an atmosphere of intolerance, discrimination and persecution against religious minorities throughout the entire Federation».

The miracle of the Apostolic Constitution is that for a later generation, that hope is no longer «against hope».

The U.S. Constitution gives the president the power «to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment,» and at least several of the Founding Fathers thought that such a power was important to the usual and normal order of government....

This was against the spirit of the Constitution.

The events of the past 12 eras have renewed in us the conviction that we loose great dangers when our devotion to our Revolution, for the Declaration and the Constitution, lie dormant; or, equally great dangers when this devotion becomes unchained passion, a tempestuous agent to cloud our judgment when incautiously directed against distant nations.

In his famous interview, Danielou warned against such arguments, saying that «with the pretext of reacting against formalism» there has arisen a «false conception of freedom that brings with it the devaluing of the constitutions and rules and exalts spontaneity and improvisation» and an «erroneous conception of the changing of man and of the Church.»

«14 Can we not see in those words the sentiments of an old republican, aware of the compromises contained in the new Constitution but hoping almost against hope that the republican virtue of the people would offset them, at least for a time?

The right concludes, finally, that groups and localities must defend themselves militarily against an alien, hostile state which is seeking to uproot the Constitution in favor of «one - world government.»

Having said all that, the Muslims do have the right to create a center at a place of their own choosing, regardless of the noises made by Newt and others promoters of stupidity in America, long as they are not promoting laws that are not only against the constitution but against the dignity of what we know as humans, we can not legalize any killing fields.

Against that, the displaced people claim the right to life (Art 21 of the Constitution)... One of the aims of the struggle is to protect the material base for creative life - centred life - sustaining activities.

Although the power of Congress to forbid slavery in federal territories was well - established, Sandford argued that slaves were private property of the sort protected by the Constitution against deprivation without due process of law, and that therefore Congress lacked any constitutional authority to ban slavery in the territories.

On the question of natural law, the accusation against Judge Thomas is that be resists those who would lay a moral foundation for the Constitution other than the foundation laid by those who wrote and ratified the Constitution.

Catholic citizens have every reason — including the truth of the matter — to argue that our Constitution is much more democratic that our Court now says it is, just as they have every reason to argue that our Framers never meant «liberty» to be used as a wrecking ball deployed against our indispensable relational «intermediary» institutions — beginning with the family and the church.

In answer to the objection against the lack of religious test for an officeholder under the new Constitution, Isaac Backus, outstanding Baptist minister, gave a stirring speech.

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.

Business for Sterling mobilised vast numbers of businesspeople against the single currency, neutralising the Government's economic case for the euro, and Vote 2004, which gradually evolved into Open Europe, ultimately led the charge against the EU Constitution.

The President's oath of office is irrelevant to amending the Constitution for two reasons: first, the President has no part in amending it, and second, amending is part of the Constitution itself, so there's nothing to «defend» against.

The powers of Congress to require military service for the common defense are broad and far - reaching, for while the Constitution protects against invasions of individual rights, it is not a suicide pact.

Oh well if I have the right to chose as a member of the electorate I will vote against the EU Constitution / Lisbon Treaty.

It's quite an ironic detail that the party that spear led the crusade against calling the Treaty of Nice a constitutional treaty uses the word Constitution to govern its own house.

For instance, if all political parties, including the APC which was then in opposition, could hold their primaries in the state, why would the PDP that was in control of the State Government come down to Abuja for its primaries against the provisions of the Electoral Act and the PDP constitution?

This was at a time when the appointing authorities were not privy to the alleged acts of misconduct or wrongdoings brought against him and 21 Circuit Court Judges and Magistrates who have been referred to the Chief Justice to be dealt with in accordance with Article 151 of the 1992 Constitution by tigereyepi for alleged stated misbehaviour.

Specifically, Omo - Agege's bill had stated that the immunity granted to the president, governors and their deputies in section 308 (1) of the constitution would no longer apply to criminal proceedings arising from allegations of financial crimes against them.