Sentences with phrase «free and democratic society»

We have to hope that The Closed Circle is not the last word, but it is a powerfully sobering story that severely tempers any hopes that the Arab world will be moving toward the establishment of free and democratic societies in the foreseeable future.

«Although I strongly disagree with Ashers stance against gay marriage, that is their right in a free and democratic society,» Tatchell said.

Mr Tatchell told Premier's News Hour: «In a free and democratic society people have a right to not promote political messages that they conscientiously object to.

While I don't believe there is anyway to prove or disprove God, I'd just assume to live my life as I morally choose to do so in a free and democratic society.

But here in a free and democratic society, Francis will come, and he will go, and our politics will go on as though he had never visited.

Pushing back has nothing to do with «insensitivity» and everything to do with devotion to a free and democratic society.

This is a free and democratic society, whose citizens largely govern themselves.

«And trade unions, once respected across the political spectrum for our role in fighting fascism and as a pillar of any free and democratic society, now treated with disdain.

Our free and democratic society simply does not, and can not, condone such abuse of a law enforcement agency.»

But in today's report MPs poured scorn on the coalition's strategic aims, which include being a «free and democratic society», dismissing them as «so general as to be meaningless».

Liberal Democrats believe that we should all be free from an overreaching state and that the individual freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act are central to a free and democratic society.

It shows once again the importance of investigative and independent journalism to reveal abuse of power that is a persistent danger with regard to a free and democratic society.

The Bellingham (Washington) School District AUP states that, «In a free and democratic society, access to information is a fundamental right of citizenship.»

«The Nevada Association of School Boards continues to oppose efforts to weaken the public education system, which is the foundation of a free and democratic society,» stated Dr. Dotty Merrill, Executive Director, Nevada Association of School Boards.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

Even if it were reasonable to have cameras constantly watching high - risk areas (Wall Street, courthouses, and so forth), congestion pricing will cover the city and eventually the whole metropolitan area, and pervasive surveillance everywhere is fundamentally incompatible with a free and democratic society.

Public debate on matters of importance is an essential element of a free and democratic society and lies at the heart of the Charter guarantee of freedom of expression.

I conclude, therefore, that s 13 and s 54 of the Act are justifiable in a free and democratic society and that the Tribunal erred in declining to apply the legislation.»

Those parts of the act are «justifiable in a free and democratic society,» and thus, the tribunal erred by declining to apply them.

The importance of privacy in our technologically driven society can never be overrated, but even then there are limits to the extent to which a free and democratic society can and should protect privacy interests.

When viewed through Lacordaire's lens the purpose of law in a free and democratic society is to liberate.

First, if one accepts that the obligation to acknowledge one's duty to «promote equality, diversity and inclusion generally» is a form of compelled speech, then it's hard to see how such an obligation can be justified under section 1, given that no such obligation actually exists — hard to see how an obligation to acknowledge a non-existent obligation is a reasonable limitation that can be justified in a free and democratic society.

While there is no doubt that the Covenant's refusal to accept LGBTQ expressions of sexuality is deeply offensive and hurtful to the LGBTQ community, and we do not in any way wish to minimize that effect, there is no Charter or other legal right to be free from views that offend and contradict an individual's strongly held beliefs... Disagreement and discomfort with the views of others is unavoidable in a free and democratic society.

«The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.»

Although the Tribunal conceded that the section infringed Sears» s. 2 (b) Charter rights, this was a reasonable limit that was demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society,

The true debate would center around section 1 and whether the limits are reasonable and demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

An open justice system is a fundamental principle of a free and democratic society, so that the actions of those responsible for interpreting and enforcing the law may be subject to public scrutiny.

On the other hand, it balances those rights against «such reasonable limits» as «can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.»

Section 1 of the Charter would suggest this to be «demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.»

Inherent in this question, given a finding that s. 11 (d) of the Charter had been violated, was the issue of whether or not s. 8 of the Narcotic Control Act was a reasonable limit prescribed by law and demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society for the purpose of s. 1 of the Charter.

A fully functioning justice system is an essential element of a free and democratic society governed by the rule of law.

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, holding that the common law definition of marriage offended the equality rights of gays and lesbians under s. 15 of the Charter in a manner that could not be justified in a free and democratic society.

As the Committee's chair, Weisenberg states on the Committee website, «[a] fair, impartial and independent judiciary is indispensable to a free and democratic society.

The prior threshold stage in the justificatory argument limiting rights under the Charter sets the bar very high; calling for proof of a pressing and substantial objective demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society, for the challenged measure.

With reference to the right to freedom of expression under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990, McGrath J pointed to s 5 which renders all fundamental rights and freedoms subject to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

s. 1 that not all groups contribute in the same meaningful way to intellectual debates, and this is a reasonable restriction in a free and democratic society.

[1] Timely justice is one of the hallmarks of a free and democratic society.

As for the restrictions in a free and democratic society, both Whatcott and Wilson as cited above pose a limit on the ability of universities, but largely because of the sanctions involved.

Even in a free and democratic society we understand that there are reasonable restrictions on expression, even in places where expression and inquiry are used for the purposes of learning.

A law which apparently infringes a Charter right may be upheld if it can be «demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.»

In my view, this represents a looming system of «surveillance by design,» that should concern us all in a free and democratic society.