Sentences with phrase «framers believed»

Many of the Constitution's framers believed de-centralization of power was critical to maximizing the freedoms of the people.

Contrasted with the United States, which puts limits on even the most powerful offices of the government (the original framers believed the Legislature would be more powerful than the Executive, though history suggests the reverse happened).

On the contrary, the Constitution extends the highest protection to what the framers believed to be the inalienable right to exercise religion according to the dictates of individual conscience.

Not exact matches

Have you forgotten what the framers of this country believed in?

You have stated what you believe that the separation is of Church from the State but it has also been argued that it is that after fighting the English crown who is also the head of the church, the framers desired that the Government shall have no place within the Church.

The framers of the Wilderness Act, believing that automobiles led to the ruination of nature, prohibited anything related to a road or a motor in designated areas.

Almost all that ice close to the archipelago coast, which I believe to be the perennial ice, is instead heading east towards Greenland and Fram Strait.

Believing that the Fram would eventually get carried back home by the drift ice, without reaching the pole, in February 1895, Nansen decided to physically leave the ship with a crewman (Hjalmar Johansen) and continue his expedition with dogs and a sled.

I believe the Framers specifically provided that juries have no constitutional role to play in sentencing.

In a dissent he summarized from the bench, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority «would have us believe that over 200 years ago, the Framers made a choice to limit the tools available to elected officials wishing to regulate civilian uses of weapons.»

Field J commented: «I must confess that I reach this conclusion without regret, for I can not believe that the framers of the Regulations or the 1993 Directive intended that someone with the bargaining power of Mr Kufner and who procures the purchase of the component parts of a business at the cost of several millions of Euros should have the protection afforded by the legislation.»