Sentences with phrase «class citizens of this state»

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«And it makes people who fall into those categories — no religion or other religion — feel like second - class citizens in the state of Arkansas, which they are not.»

what can you do for the victims as long as Christians hold power in our country, were living under christian tyranny, my heart goes out to my Sikh brothers, and i will protect them but those in power calls them evil, what we need is a separation of church and state, that's the only way to help us, as long as Christians have all the power, we will always besecond class citizens,

If the majority of our middle class citizens work for our state government, and the administrtion keeps taking money away from our livelyhood, how can we contribute to the efforts of trying to restore our economy?

Borrowing from cosmopolitan discourse, Selasi describes a class of people who have deep and meaningful — yet fluid, connections to Africa, while identifying more so as citizens of the world than any particular nation state.

By singling out visitors to DSS, they argue, the policy violates a legal tenet which holds that the government can not treat classes of citizens differently without showing some legitimate state interest.

His freshman effort was a story of tragedy and triumph — and one that brought about immense public, private, and academic discourse on the state of America, as experienced by its second - class citizens.

As previously noted, in Connecticut, the poor pay about 12 % of their income in state and local taxes, the Middle Class about 10 % and the state's wealthiest citizen's only pay about 5.5 % of their income in state and local taxes.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

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.

Unlike most European countries (including the United Kingdom) and Japan which rely on quota systems, Canada and the United States have attempted to alleviate the serious problems of unemployment and discrimination experienced by their handicapped citizens by including them amongst the protected classes in their human rights legislation.

Only recently, this Court had occasion to declare that a state law which denied equal enjoyment of property rights to a designated class of citizens of specified race and ancestry was not a legitimate exercise of the state's police power, but violated the guaranty of the equal protection of the laws.

EU citizenship makes this kind of «integration thinking» impossible, as it was designed, from the very beginning, not to allow states to divide incoming EU citizens into classes of «good» and «bad».

While the number of migrant workers currently exceeds 200,000, live - in caregivers under the Live - In Caregivers Program (LCP), agricultural workers under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and other workers under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), face tremendous physical barriers that position them as second class citizens to the Canadian state in terms of their rights and benefits.

The «local controversy» exception applies when the following criteria are met: (i) greater than two - thirds of the putative class members are citizens of the forum state; (ii) at least one defendant from whom «significant relief» is sought, and whose conduct forms a «significant basis» for the asserted claims, is a citizen of the forum state; and (iii) principal injuries related to each defendant's alleged conduct were incurred in the forum state.

In the context of the TWU case, the state authority is the BC (or Ontario) law society, and it is people like Jamie et al. who are urging it to exclude a class of citizens (TWU graduates) from full participation in public life (assuming, of course, they can satisfy the objective standards to be lawyers).

As stated by Prof. Trebilcock (p. 77): ``... both LAO and the Government of Ontario, through the Ministry of the Attorney General, need to accord a high priority to rendering the legal aid system more salient to middle - class citizens of Ontario (where, after all, most of the taxable capacity of the province resides).»

I was the lead lawyer for the state against Arthur Andersen, the accounting giant, for the failed audits of the Baptist Foundation of Arizona, where there were 11,000 investors who lost their retirements, and we were able to return $ 217 million to the victims, mostly working - class and senior citizens.