Sentences with phrase «equal moral weight»

Hitchens privileges big countries over small ones, and he assumes that all big countries have equal moral weight.

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3) The authors do not actually put forth «moral licensing» as their favored explanation of the non-eco behaviors of the climate - believing subsample: they give equal weight, at least rhetorically, to the possibility that the «Highly Concerned» «felt that federal policies were the more effective means of addressing climate change (vs. individual pro-environmental behaviors).»

It is useful because it is honest; because it leaves not even the most obscure and friendless citizen without means of obtaining justice from a neighbouring State; because it obviates occasions of quarrels between States on account of the claims of their respective citizens; because it recognizes and strongly rests on this great moral truth that justice is the same whether due from one man or a million, or from a million to one man; because it teaches and greatly appreciates the value of our free republican national government, which places all our citizens on an equal footing, and enables each and every of them to obtain justice without any danger of being overborne by the weight and number of their opponents; and because it brings into action and enforces this great and glorious principle — that the people are the sovereign of this country, and consequently that fellow citizens and joint sovereigns can not be degraded by appearing with each other in their own courts to have their controversies determined.