Sentences with phrase «arbitrary power of the state»

That view attributes to the state a wildly exaggerated capacity to provide security — not only because of the all - too - apparent limitations of the competence of state officials to keep us safe but also because, as the arbitrary power of the state increases, the more the state itself becomes a source of insecurity.

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This latter norm prohibits the exercise of arbitrary power by state legislatures, and means that not every law that they enact is by that fact alone constitutional.

Based on observation of the behaviour of the government I'd say they've already made up their minds on that one: the Labour party is convinced that in order to stay in power it needs to be seen to be tough on crime, which usually translates into advocating random outbursts of arbitrary state power.

The dominated live in a state of constant fear that the master may, at any point, exercise their arbitrary power.

Thus while both anarchism and republicanism share a principled commitment to opposing arbitrary power, for the republican there are forms of states that will not exercise arbitrary power, while for anarchists state power is inherently arbitrary.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

The republican commitment to the view that people can be at liberty only when they are secure — and equally secure — from the exercise of arbitrary power, has significant implications for the «domestic» political economy of states.

Rather than concentrating on improving the current system and insuring the timely designations and re-authorizations of state certified MWBE companies and their entry into the universe of state contracting, the law increases the arbitrary power of the director of the program while complicating the reporting systems required of contractors.

The citizens of the Soviet Union were not more secure because of the immense arbitrary power of the Soviet state — they were less secure.

The Ghana Police Service must show fidelity to the state rather than the ruling government, and also, be professional in their conduct in order to protect life and property of all our citizens, instead of the arbitrary application of its powers.

To sustain a clean, reliable and affordable power supply, federal, regional and state regulators need to recognize that a market - driven diversity of attributes, not an arbitrary, government - mandated fuel mix, will lead to the lowest cost and most reliable power for consumers.

In the United States the magistrates are not elected by a particular class of citizens, but by the majority of the nation; as they are the immediate representatives of the passions of the multitude and are wholly dependent upon its pleasure, they excite neither hatred nor fear; hence, as I have already shown, very little care has been taken to limit their authority, and they are left in possession of a vast amount of arbitrary power.