Sentences with phrase «by the founding fathers in»

In a 5 to 4 decision those justices ruled that the Second Amendment gives Americans the right to own guns for personal self - defense, despite the amendment's opening language - «A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,» - which pretty clearly says that gun ownership was specifically preserved by the founding fathers in the interest of the common defense against a tyrannical government (remember, this was the issue on their minds back then).
The bill uses the power given to each state by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution to change how they award their electoral votes for president.

Not exact matches

A trim long - distance runner and father of three, Marcus Gillam comes by his building ways honestly: his father, Keith, founded Vanbots, which was a construction powerhouse in the Greater Toronto Area from the 1970s to the late 2000s.
Today, Jeff is the CEO of building maintenance company City Wide in Kansas City, Kan., founded by his father, while brothers Rick and Brad run their own businesses.
Had the founding fathers been joined by the founding mothers, perhaps they might have enshrined this human right in the charter — as lots of other nations have done — but it's important to acknowledge that, in the U.S. Constitution, no such explicit right is specified.
He wrapped up an hour later by citing John A. Macdonald, the Conservative founding father of Confederation, who once foresaw a nation «great in thought, great in action, great in hope and great in position.»
Founded by president Jean Bourassa's father 60 years ago, the company started as a three - man shop in Saint - Jean - sur - Richelieu, Que.
«They want access — up, down, sideways — and they want it immediately,» says Smith, who joined the company, founded by his father, in 1982 after a short stint in law.
It started as a chain of drive - in theaters, founded by Sumner Redstone's father Michael in 1936, a company that the younger Redstone took control of in 1987 after finishing law school.
In 1978, Blankfein graduated from Harvard Law School and took a job as an associate at Donovan, Leisure, a small «old - line» law firm founded in 1929, by William J. «Wild Bill» Donovan, who later formed the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was known as the father of the CIIn 1978, Blankfein graduated from Harvard Law School and took a job as an associate at Donovan, Leisure, a small «old - line» law firm founded in 1929, by William J. «Wild Bill» Donovan, who later formed the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was known as the father of the CIin 1929, by William J. «Wild Bill» Donovan, who later formed the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and was known as the father of the CIA.
Roberts said Comcast had been built through bold investments since it was founded by his father in 1963.
After all, Wallace had been founded 51 years earlier by Watts's father - in - law.
Kullman's business, founded by his father, Sam, in 1927, is the oldest diner manufacturer around.
Over the past five years, she has taken far - right National Front party — which was founded by her father — from a marginalised voice to one of the most important forces in French politics.
McCain Produce, which was founded by the McCain brothers» father, carries out seed production at the Foreston Elite Seed Potato Farm in New Brunswick's Saint John River Valley - one of the best areas in the world to grow seed potatoes.
The evening was sponsored in part by Founding Fathers Brewery, which donates half of all profits to Veteran, servicemember and military family initiatives.
The father and son were found by rescue services in the French resort of Chamonix on Sunday, 17th March.
Believe in One God and there is no partner with him, No son or any creatures and Jesus was just a messanger sent to Children of Israel who was born thru virgin Marry and no father, this is another miracle of God that He can create a human without father as HE created Adam and Eve without parents... what if you found yourself in «wrong» by believing in multiple Gods?
Our founding fathers knew this well when they told Religion to stick it in its ear by separating church and state.
No - one can dispute that the Founding Fathers were influenced in their ideas by the Bible — but «influenced by» doesn't mean they intended to create a Christian Nation.
Macedonia Church of God in Christ had been founded by Robinson's father in 1950.
Read the Treaty of Tripoli, written in 1797 by our founding fathers....
Griffiths searches magisterial documents, and he finds that the term «the limbo of the Fathers» occurs only in a text by Pius VI from 1784.
If America is founded to guarantee religious freedom by the first Europeans who arrived and later by the Founding Fathers, then why do politicians continuously use it in debates, primaries, and speeches to encroach individual freedoms with their religious beliefs?
Because finding fault with them, He says: «Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah — not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.
«It is only as we rest IN Christ and His righteousness by faith that we will find ourselves doing the finished works of the Father.
The father died a year ago in May, in his bed, surrounded by family who loved him enough to have gone on caring for him indefinitely, who had not tired of him and his needs, who bore his sufferings with him, who found him even in his infirmity to be good company worth having for as long as he stayed.
Actually, Ralph, «when commentators prognosticate about the «evangelical vote» we might ask how this country has drifted so far from the intent of the Founding Fathers by granting Christianity such a prominent place in the political tent.
As noted in the treaty of Tripoli, implied in the first amendment, and confirmed by several founding fathers, the US was not in any way founded on the Christian religion.
By the end of his Anglican curacy, disillusionment with the liberal, almost secularist, approach which he had found in some of his fellow churchmen, niggling doubts about the validity of Anglican orders and the dawning realisation that the C of E was attempting the impossible by trying to serve both God and State, had convinced Father Ed that he was in the wrong ChurcBy the end of his Anglican curacy, disillusionment with the liberal, almost secularist, approach which he had found in some of his fellow churchmen, niggling doubts about the validity of Anglican orders and the dawning realisation that the C of E was attempting the impossible by trying to serve both God and State, had convinced Father Ed that he was in the wrong Churcby trying to serve both God and State, had convinced Father Ed that he was in the wrong Church.
misty, hopefully, they are «listening» to Jesus in his word given to him by his and our God and Father found at Matthew, Mark, Luke and John in the Holy Bible.
Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and placed good men in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic Church which put the Books of the Bible in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.
If by some fluke I do find myself heaven - bound on May 21 in a puff of smoke while my ailing mother and father are left down here with no one to care for them as the Horsemen ride over the hill shootin'their 6 - guns, I'm gonna demand a return flight so I can stand guard in front of their house with my NFR - approved lariat, ready for some ropin».
Some of the sayings which he relates are ascribed to oral tradition by the Church Fathers; others are to be found in Gnostic sources which the Fathers quote.
The most scholarly is by David L. Holmes, a professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary, who in The Faiths of the Founding Fathers sketches the religious landscape during the constitutional period.
«Trinity» did not originally mean, as it does for some later, that there are three kinds of revelation, the Father speaking through creation and the Spirit though experience, by which the words and example of the Son must be corrected; it meant rather that language must be found and definitions created so that Christians, who believe in only one God, can affirm that he is most adequately and bindingly known in Jesus.
Intimidated by loose (and often ludicrous) charges of «theocracy,» many committed religious believers have hesitated to cite the Bible in support of anything political, even though our Founding Fathers did.
Later, in Reflections on America, Maritain wrote: «The Founding Fathers were neither metaphysicians nor theologians, but their philosophy of life, and their political philosophy, their notion of natural law and of human rights, were permeated with concepts worked out by Christian reason and backed up by an unshakeable religious feeling.»
She was found by a father and son, who were able to cash in on the 500,000 yen (about $ 4,500) reward.
That democratic form of governance commemorated and celebrated by Americans in individuals and events in American history such as George Washington, the Fourth of July and Christmas have a common bond with our Founding Fathers: Faith in God and Jesus as the Son of God.
They did it, as witness the founding fathers of the Jesuits, by combining a new freedom in individual initiative and development, with self - discipline and obedience which was total in integrity and sincerity.
A very long time ago, in a previous life, I found myself chairing an evening conference on sexual ethics organised by the then principal of Pusey House, Oxford, the eccentric Father Cheslyn Jones...
It is greatly to be hoped that the liturgical reforms initiated by our present Holy Father will find some way of expressing this sanctification of the whole year in the calendar.
We Christians of the Third Millennium, guided by the Second Vatican Council and its great champions John Paul and Benedict, are graced to be witnessing a return of the papacy and episcopacy to the model of the age of the Fathers: boldly evangelical, passionately committed to mission, and with true humility inviting the men and women of our time to consider the proposal that truth is to be found in the person of Jesus Christ.
Lord, the truth absolute have mercy on USA, hindered fooled by hindu Maggie Jew's, Crooked self centered in violation of fundamental principal of America, enshrined by founding father's of USA, truth absolute as God, but ruled by hindu's deniers of truth absolute in hindu Judaism, criminal self center ism, bunch of hindu's, criminals pretending to be Americans, but hindu gentiles, criminals slave of hindu Jew's, terrorist self centered, working hard to undermine USA to please their hindu soul, filthy desire, to be what they can never be TRUTH ABSOLUTE THEMSELVES.
Nor will it be by minimizing the personal devotion of the faithful Christian believer who in the privacy of his chamber seeks to enter into communion with his God and there find strength to live throughout the days of his life as one whose will is conformed to the Will of the Father.
«I told father that in the Bible itself maxims can be found by which we may test our convictions to see whether they are reasonable and just.»
«But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house.
It's run by Pastor Hyung Jin Moon, whose father founded the Unification Church in the 1950s and became low - level famous for «mass weddings,» in which he would marry huge crowds of people to each other.
In a world built up by chance, God would no more be responsible for the success of his «offspring» than a father whose children got fed and dressed because they were lucky enough to find scraps of food and clothing in the neighbors» trash binIn a world built up by chance, God would no more be responsible for the success of his «offspring» than a father whose children got fed and dressed because they were lucky enough to find scraps of food and clothing in the neighbors» trash binin the neighbors» trash bins.
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