Sentences with phrase «equal citizenship»

Such an approach is not viable in the modern world, where we have the concept of equal citizenship.

Merely symbolic establishment is wrong if — but only if — it infringes on equal citizenship.

The members of the Coalition for Defense for Equal Citizenship (CODEC) are presently on a peaceful march through the streets of Accra to correct what they describe as untruths being circulated by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), about the voters» register.

But even as they celebrated, Christians debated if they failed to fully seize a unique opportunity to pursue equal citizenship.

(Article 6, section 3) This provision was radical in its day — giving equal citizenship to believers and non-believers alike.

Likewise, Partha Chatterjee directs attention to the exemptions that impoverished people request from their governments while securing their livelihoods to suggest that analysis of political practices be framed «as a redefined norm that endorses differentiated rather than equal citizenship as the normative standard for the modern state» (Chatterjee, 2012: 24).

The court might also invoke the citizenship clause, asserting that all children need an education sufficient to ensure equal citizenship, which entails political, civil, and social equality, as California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu has argued.

Sullivan brilliantly dissects the positions of the four factions he sees battling over homosexuality in America, then advances military service and marriage as the political goals gays most need to pursue in order to achieve equal citizenship.

«In Canada, lawfully - obtained citizenship has always been permanent — once a Canadian, always a Canadian — and all Canadians have always had equal citizenship rights.

Some scholars retain the idea that the liberal democratic welfare state, with its focus on equal citizenship, provides the fullest expression of citizenship that encompasses all, especially the vast majority of the world's population who struggle on an everyday basis to secure their livelihoods.

The event came after 808,172 people from 142 countries signed a petition, launched by Open Doors, asking the UK government and the United Nations to ensure that Middle Eastern Christians - and other minorities - enjoy the right to equal citizenship, dignified living conditions and a prominent role in reconciling and rebuilding their society.

As for native Americans, their story has been equally grim, and even less has been done to promote their equal citizenship.

Right now, basic human rights are threatened in Washington, D.C.: health care, education, jobs, the environment, and equal citizenship,» she said in a press release Monday.

According to this article: In the West, the word secular implies three things: freedom of religion, equal citizenship to each citizen regardless of his or...

It is an affront to the principles of democracy and equal citizenship.»

Repealing the 8th Amendment is a necessary first step towards allowing women full and equal citizenship, according to councillor... News

Throughout the Civil Rights era, the Latin @ community called for bilingual education, not only as a way of educating their children, but also as a «means to realize the promise of equal citizenship» (Del Valle, 1998, p. 194).

In those situations, as explained in Part III.B.4, using compensatory damages as a benchmark for measuring re-tributive damages would create a signal of inequality of human worth since compensatory damages are often keyed to one's economic status in life, not one's political status wherein one bears the privileges and burdens of equal citizenship.