Sentences with phrase «constitutional right to life»

Sophie says: «In our civil rights case, titled Juliana, et al. v. United States, et al. and available at ourchildrenstrust.org, we assert that the government is violating our constitutional right to life, liberty and property by approving emissions of fatally high levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, despite being aware of its damaging effects.

Olson will argue that the federal government, by failing to adequately regulate greenhouse gas pollution and by continuing to lease new federal lands and waters for fossil fuel extraction, as recently as this year, is violating the kids» constitutional right to life, liberty and property.

Meanwhile, John Crawford apparently does not have a constitutional right to life.

It alleges that defendants» actions and inactions — whether or not they violate any specific statutory duty — have so profoundly damaged our home planet that they threaten plaintiffs» fundamental constitutional rights to life and liberty.

For example, although homeless people were successful in their Charter claim in Victoria (City) v Adams, this judicial bias is evident even in that case — the first to consider the relevance of international human rights law, including concerns and recommendations from the CESCR, to section 7 of the Charter.284 The BC Court of Appeal in Adams upheld the trial judge's decision that the City of Victoria was violating homeless persons» constitutional rights to life, liberty and security of the person by prohibiting them from erecting temporary overhead shelters in public parks.285 However the Court of Appeal was insistent on framing its decision as a negative «restraint» on government, rather than as a positive obligation.

Not exact matches

By framing abortion as a nearly unqualified constitutional right, without fully considering the claims of fetal life, we have not taken a stride to a more virtuous society.

«Unless the federal judiciary is to be a floating constitutional convention,» Noonan added, «a federal court should not invent a constitutional right unknown in the past and antithetical to the defense of human life that has been a chief responsibility of our constitutional government.»

The inference is that natural rights reasoning is insufficient to establish an enduring constitutional jurisprudence, much less one capable of protecting human life.

Since Roe v Wade, pro-life advocates have argued that an unborn child is unarguably human, and therefore deserves of the same constitutional right as you and I enjoy — namely, the right to live.

If it can be shown, after all, that the founding Federalists were opposed to any government that promoted a particular conception of the good life, might we not then say that Laurence Tribe's and Eleanor Smeal's defense of «reproductive freedom» as a constitutional right is consistent with the principles of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay?

Speech can be regulated only when it directly conflicts with other constitutional conditions of the democratic process — for instance, freedom of religion and assembly, equal protection under the law, and basic rights to life and liberty.

The sovereign state, even the constitutional democracy that's supposed to recognize and strive to support the inalienable rights of its citizens, nonetheless holds the power to kill its citizens with direct intent and thereby to alienate from them an essential right, which is to continue living.

«I don't think that you necessarily have to preserve the right to address Constitutional issues at the state level,» said Keith Reid, who lives on the Cook County side of Buffalo Grove.

«I don't think that you necessarily have to preserve the right to address Constitutional issues at the state level,» said Keith Reid, who lives on the Cook County side of Buffalo...

Mr Justice Blake found that British citizens have «a fundamental right of constitutional significance recognised by the common law» to live in their home country.

Government assures every resident of our state that their constitutional and human rights to live peacefully and own property wherever they choose is sacrosanct.

The legal team that overturned California's ban on same - sex marriage is targeting Virginia to launch another challenge aimed at convincing the Supreme Court that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry no matter where they live.

The decision, delivered by Justice Stephen Breyer, said that HB2 would place an «undue burden» on women's constitutional right to seek an abortion, particularly for those who are poor, disadvantaged, or living in rural areas.

There is disagreement in the courts and legal academy about whether there is a constitutional right not to be a parent; there should be no dispute that it is gravely immoral to make someone a parent (even of the most nascent form of human life, the embryo) without their informed consent.

Otherwise, the decision to implement cessation clause will result in the violation of a number of fundamental rights, including the right to life, to equality, to human dignity and to freedom from ill - treatment and torture; all lies at the heart of the 1951 Refugee Convention, human rights law, and constitutional frameworks.

To advocate effectively on behalf of students, principals and teachers must continue to support and uphold the constitutional, civil, and due process rights of all students.Student Achievement Schools should prepare students for the challenges that they will face as they transition from one stage of life to the next by helping students focus on gaining the skills, knowledge, and understandings today that they will need tomorroTo advocate effectively on behalf of students, principals and teachers must continue to support and uphold the constitutional, civil, and due process rights of all students.Student Achievement Schools should prepare students for the challenges that they will face as they transition from one stage of life to the next by helping students focus on gaining the skills, knowledge, and understandings today that they will need tomorroto support and uphold the constitutional, civil, and due process rights of all students.Student Achievement Schools should prepare students for the challenges that they will face as they transition from one stage of life to the next by helping students focus on gaining the skills, knowledge, and understandings today that they will need tomorroto the next by helping students focus on gaining the skills, knowledge, and understandings today that they will need tomorrow.

PETA — telling county officials that No Kill is impossible — also thanked pound staff for «standing firmly» against citizens who are working to ensure that neglect is eliminated, lives are saved, adoptions occur, volunteers are allowed, and constitutional rights are protected.

Perhaps it is bending constitutional rights, but to most Americans, as shown by the results in the MO voting, believe that animals who were bred to spend their lives with us deserve to be treated at least by the requirements in prop B. (However, constant access to the outdoors seems a bit excessive to me.)

empowering people to make change in their communities, by enshrining the constitutional right of all Canadians to live in a healthy environment.

Losing your constitutional rights for two years and be forced to learn what it's like to live in an authoritarian world with rigid class structure you can not escape is a great way to learn what great good fortune is to be born an American.

They argue that they have a constitutional right to a safe climate, that they have a right to receive from us a planet that supports all life, just as our forebears gave us.

Meanwhile, the access right's constitutional overtones were suggested by three developments: the incorporation of a right of access in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (article 42) in 2000, the EU's accession to the Aarhus Treaty and subsequent adoption of the Aarhus Regulation on Access to Information (Regulation 1367/06) in 2006, and increasingly explicit references to transparency's auxiliary role in facilitating the democratic life of the Union, most notably in the Access Info Europe and In «t Veld v Council case law.

«The students were mesmerized and very surprised to see how constitutional law can be used in real life to protect institutions, to protect citizens» rights and to protect constitutional democracy,» Wang says.

The Court of Appeal also rejected the idea that the PSESA infringed other constitutional rights, such as the freedom of expression, the right to life, liberty, and security of person, and the right to equality.

Our Initiative defines access to justice as an underlying Constitutional right tied to the rule of law, equality, and the right to life, liberty and security of the person.

Need for clarification Oliver Heald MP, a former shadow secretary of state for constitutional aff airs, has stated that there is a case for a law which clarifi es the rights of those who have lived together for a long period of time, or for those who have children, but two years — the length of time proposed by the Law Commission — seems a ludicrously short period of time for anyone to acquire these rights.

Courts must be adequately staffed and located where people live to make sure people can get access to a judge when needed, especially when fundamental and constitutional rights are at stake

While the Court stopped short of conferring a freestanding constitutional right to healthcare, it stated that s. 7 of the Charter (which provides that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice) confers a right to equitable access to medical services legally available in Ontario.

In this regard, NAMUNDO and Ricci, are of a piece with Wisconsin Right to Life, Ayotte, Gonzales v. Carhart, NRDC v. Winter, and many other cases in which the Court either adopted a very narrow, incremental holding or avoided reaching an underlying constitutional question.

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Governments, of course, are the ultimate «duty - bearers» and courts the final arbiters of constitutional rights — but to become meaningful to homeless people and those living in poverty, Charter rights must inform the ongoing implementation of strategies, not merely the final review of their constitutionality and they must guide decision - making at every level, not merely in the courts.

«If there is constitutional recognition to aboriginal and treaty rights how come companies can get away with violating those in the face of the Crown refusing to live up to its duties?»

Like adult detainees, juvenile detainees with serious mental disorders have a constitutional right (under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments) to receive needed treatment.5 Mental health professionals believe that providing psychiatric services to juvenile detainees could improve their quality of life and help reduce recidivism.6 - 8 Until we have better data, we can not know how best to use the system's scarce mental health resources.9, 10