Sentences with phrase «citizen rights»

He also promoted greater transparency by proposing legislation to give citizens the right to vote on major local transportation projects.

Even worse, this is another erosion of citizen rights in favor of corporate rights.

Generally, the Second Amendment, so the argument goes, guarantees American citizens the right to bear arms, aka carry firearms.

I'm sure she's run off her feet but she needs to strengthen her relationship with citizens right across the spectrum.

It is amazing to me how the media, and environmental organizations, are so agenda driven that they are willing to give up such fundamental citizen rights to promote their political ends.

The legal information provided includes an overview of citizen rights based on specific situations for use during simulation and interactions with law enforcement.

Looking ahead: The Second Amendment provides citizens the right to bear arms.

The Judicial Redress Act was also signed by former President Obama which gives EU citizens the right of challenge in the US courts where their data has been misused.

California's proposed privacy law, which will be on the state's November ballot, would guarantee citizens the rights to see what kinds of information large companies are collecting on them, and to prohibit those companies from selling their personal information.

It's also worth noting that the Aadhaar Act explicitly denies citizens the right to go to court to seek damages for the release of their personal data.

Definitions vary, but democracies have constitutions protecting citizens rights, civil liberties, rule of law, equality before the law, and other rights.

In order to do this, the US Constitution would need to be amended to explicitly give US citizens the right to vote on policies.

I am disgusted by this blatant attempt to subvert citizen rights in favor of corporate power.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

In 1791 French revolutionaries set down the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, assigning all French citizens a right to vote in elections for parish priests and bishops.

Anyone who would condone depriving law - abiding, tax - paying citizens their rights, is a self - righteous jerk!

Machiavelli wrote not only The Prince but Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy, in which he went on to develop citizen rights and the institution of tribunes to protect them.

The government had a very specific reason for not guaranteeing EU citizens rights ahead of Brexit talks.

The state Ministry of Justice, while rendering its activities in the second quarter of the present administration, added that the state Citizen Mediation Centre, CMC and the Office of the Public Defender, OPD and the Directorate for Citizens Rights, DCR assisted residents of the state to recover over N309 million (N309, 943, 513), through debts settlement and compensations for clients in various matters.

Our legal giants confused citizens rights to free speech with a corporations right to make unlimited donations as «free speech.»

The trio jets around various US and Mexican border cities, trampling citizens rights with impunity.

In addition, an ethical «audit» should be initiated by the administration to review the process of law (or lack of it) that has created the outrageous breaches to constitutional citizen rights that has occurred, as created by the fatally flawed expedited Wind Bill of 2008, Pl - 661.

The doctors are ultimately responsible when they commit a negligent action but, more and more, political forces are finding ways to divorce doctors from their responsibility for their clients and to take from citizens their right to seek compensation in the civil courts.

Gibraltar warns it could rescind citizens rights if Spain uses veto on Brexit deal, The Guardian

First, the court ruled that the state regulation allegedly violated by the defendant by their placement of the dredge pipe in the chosen location did not give private citizens the right to sue for damages.

Section 23 of the Charter gives certain Canadian citizens the right to have their children receive education in the province or territory's minority language at government expense.

CITIZENS RIGHTS WATCH (CRW) or «The Citizens» is an independent, non-governmental, non - profit, and goal - oriented organization promoting internationally recognized human rights under the principles of International human rights laws.

• Britain having full control over immigration from Europe, but British businesses no longer having free access to trade with the EU • British businesses having free access to trade with the EU, but Britain having to allow EU citizens the right to live and work in Britain

The Constitution grants American citizens the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment.

there is no police to protect citizens rights.

I don't care if a business is Christian or not but I do care if a business is taking patrons money and donating millions to hate groups that try to take away any US Citizens rights.

So much for Democrats allowing democracy and citizen rights in Connecticut.

As such — and perhaps somewhat ironically — you'd likely have to first start petitioning your representative to consider proposing a law giving citizens the right to recall them.

For example, a project based on a courthouse theme might have included an exploration of specific legal issues, the development of conflict resolution skills, discussions of citizen rights and responsibilities, and the opportunity to conduct a mock trial in an actual courtroom.

The crown legislative achievement of Obama's first term was a proposed large scale overhaul granting all American citizens the right to health care.

Should it somehow pass muster with the Senate (which, in the bill's current form, I can not imagine), it might end up doing what Republicans seem to fear most: enshrining a citizen right to basic health care.

Unless the Council waters it down, the package also will give citizens the right to erasure of their data, beef up the consent requirements for taking and processing data and heavily step up the levels of fines that can be imposed on companies for flouting the rules.

Northwest Europe and its colonies began the risky experiment of granting to all citizens the right to free exercise of their religion.

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».

I would defend (and to the death against other Christians, if necessary) any citizens right to believe or NOT believe.

Catholics, Methodists, Jews for Jesus, Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses, Jesus Freaks??? The First Amendment guarantees ALL citizens the right to worship as they see fit.

It is unacceptable that the United States should be the only industrialized country other than South Africa that does not ensure its citizens the right to adequate health care.

By your logic, Jerry Richardson should have to resign because one of his employees silentsed a citizens right to self - expression.