One of the arguments in support of absolute liability or no - fault offences urged that the «public interest» necessitated such offences in
certain public welfare situations where the public good was at issue and the risk of public harm was engaged.
Not exact matches
The principle of subsidiarity is opposed to
certain forms of centralization, bureaucratization, and
welfare assistance and to the unjustified and excessive presence of the State in
public mechanisms.
Tocqueville saw that naked self - interest was
certain to destroy the republic, and that religion could be the great restraining element to turn self - interest into
public - spirited sacrifice for the general
welfare.9.
Do not participate in
certain government aid programs including cash assistance,
welfare,
public housing or section 8.
It was not designed to improve animal
welfare, but to create technical offences to get at a
certain type of person, while all along fooling the
public that some good would be done.
And because education is not just a «private good» — all of our
welfare depends on an educated populace — isn't it appropriate for the
public to demand that schools meet
certain standards, especially when taxpayer dollars are involved?
That right vouchsafes to families the options of private schooling and home schooling but not of no schooling, for it is balanced by «high duty» and by the «power of the state,» as recognized in the same Court decision, to «reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that
certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the
public welfare» (emphasis added).
Well then, is it responsible to spent billions of dollars, disrupt the economy, paralize developing nations and divert resources from other far more
certain problems — infrastructure collapse,
public health, funding social
welfare programs, when more volcanos might be lurking?
Then there is the following: «Section 108 of the CAA also provides EPA with a mechanism for listing pollutants that «endanger
public health or
welfare» and meet
certain other criteria.
This meant that
certain types of case — such as divorce, child contact,
welfare benefits, employment, clinical negligence, and most housing law — were no longer eligible for
public funds.
Nor does the Task Force justify its selection on the ground that
certain fields of substantive instruction have been given priority on the basis of the
public good or general
welfare: for example, «legal and fiduciary concepts in commercial relationships» [9] are required, but similar concepts in family, professional or governmental relationships are ignored.
Therefore, in order to preserve the health, safety, and
welfare of the
public, the Legislature must provide privileged communication for members of the
public or those acting on their behalf to encourage needed or desired counseling, clinical and psychotherapy services, or
certain other services of a psychological nature to be sought out.