Sentences with phrase «essential in a free society»

Erecting the «wall of separation between church and state,» therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.

Findlay says: «There is a balance to be struck, and I would be the first to defend the freedom of the press as being absolutely essential in a free society... but it is how the law reacts to certain situations that is our concern.»

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First published in 1994, this updated version is a welcome guide to the ways in which the ACLU's constituting mission of protecting civil liberties has frequently degenerated into an ideological crusade against cultural institutions and habits essential to a genuinely free society.

It is the essential vulnerable nature of a free society that we all walk down the sidewalk trusting in strangers we don't know who might be carrying a small nuclear device and looking like a regular person.

Moreover, in addressing «the nature of the academic calling» (as they significantly still put it), the AAUP argued that «if education is the cornerstone of the structure of society and if progressing in scientific knowledge is essential to civilization, few things can be more important than to enhance the dignity of the scholar's profession...» Scientific knowledge and free inquiry thus gained near - sacred status.

Now we think of an alternate free society where essentially all research funding for climate science is provided voluntarily by individuals deeply concerned / interested in climate science; the individuals contribute to scientists & institutions that they themselves pick; no essential government role.

Here the government have been afforded an opportunity to provide a statutory safeguard for what is an essential protection in a free society governed by the Rule of Law.

Mr. Clark's office is located in Toronto at the Criminal Law Offices on College Street, along with several other independent lawyers and firms not associated in business but sharing a common philosophy of how and why criminal defence counsel play a key role in guarding Canada's essential characteristic as a «free and democratic society».

Rooted in the field of journalism, we promote a free media as essential to a fair and open society.

I would venture a no based on the above, but still see a lot of ascertain that access to legal services such as the Courts are essential, to our way of life in a free and democratic society.