Sentences with phrase «constitutional protection even»

If enacted, cockfighters will claim their fighting rooster breeding operations are farms and demand constitutional protection even though cockfighting is a crime.

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In the same documents, the museum argues that even if constitutional protections apply, «there is no legal authority for the proposition that a museum is prohibited from displaying an item with historical, cultural or artistic significance merely because that item also has religious significance.»

Mormon polygamy was outlawed in this country, despite the constitutional protection of freedom of religion, because it violated the sensibilities of the dominant Christian culture, even though no explicit biblical prohibition against polygamy exists.

In the corridors of power even previously sceptical Tories are also muttering that a proper federal, constitutional settlement for the UK could yet be done — incorporating an EVEL (English votes for English laws) solution alongside some hardwired protections for Scotland.

Though Baby Girl didn't reach constitutional issues, the majority said that if ICWA can disrupt an otherwise settled adoption «solely because an ancestor — even a remote one — was an Indian,» that «would raise equal protection concerns.»

The application of the same or similar algorithms to different data sets, or even the same data set processed in different ways, may in fact create a different result worthy of constitutional protection.

Recognizing the critical importance of judicial tenure, both in substance and appearance, Congress provided special protections for administrative law judges, even as it afforded due deference to the constitutional powers of executive agencies to render final agency decisions.

I am unable to concur with my brethren, and if the application of a constitutional provision, indeed a constitutional provision whose purpose is the protection of personal liberty, were not involved, I might not even signify opposition.

It is argued that individual «free will» must govern, even in activities beyond the protection of the First Amendment and other constitutional guarantees of privacy, and that government can not legitimately impede an individual's desire to see or acquire obscene plays, movies, and books.

Many of these states even include greater state constitutional protections for a woman's right to choose than the federal Constitution.

A government statute telling someone they can't freely voice an opinion even about legal issues would interfere with constitutional protections.