Sentences with phrase «free exercise of»
That involves the application of s 116 of the Constitution, which provides a prohibition on laws affecting the free exercise of religion.
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Could Executive Action be used to prohibit the free exercise of religion, etc., within the broad authorizations of executive authority that the President has (from Congress or otherwise)?
Religion - State separation is a pre-condition for the free exercise of human rights.
However, safety concerns were not sufficient to outweigh a Sikh student's right to wear a kirpan (ceremonial dagger) to school in the case of Multani c. Marguerite - Bourgeoys (Commission scolaire).31 In upholding the student's claim, the Supreme Court emphasized that religious tolerance is important in Canada and that measures that might infringe on religious adherents» beliefs ought to be tempered, to the extent possible, in order to accommodate the free exercise of those beliefs and religious practices.32
affected, collides with the majority's right to free exercise of religion.
This means that it merely entails an obligation on the Council to abstain from interference in the free exercise of opinion.
Today the Fully Informed Jury Association (FIJA) mailed the following letter to Chief Judge Belvin Perry, Jr., who recently issued an administrative order unlawfully prohibiting the free exercise of speech in Florida.
The proposition that section 2 (a) incorporates, to an unclear degree, both «free exercise» and «anti-establishment» values in a unitary guarantee of religious freedom can be supported by the language of the text itself... the Charter is not restricted to protecting only the free exercise of religion, but «freedom of... religion» in a larger sense.
One of those cases, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, No. 16 - 111, pits allegations of unlawful sexual - orientation discrimination against First Amendment values of free speech and free exercise of religion.
Not only is it cruel and unusual to limit his menu options, said Nichols, but it violates his right to the free exercise of religion, since such food is «abhorrent to [his] sincerely held religious beliefs» and thus causes him to «sin against God.»
In the narrower legal context, this Hayekian - Rawlsian debate usually manifests itself in arguments about whether the law should protect «negative rights,» that is, protect persons from government encroachment on their inalienable rights — like private property and free exercise of religion, or whether the law should foster «positive rights,» that is, promote the rights of people to receive tangible things like free health care or housing under the auspices of equal treatment under the law.
In addition to the constitutional claims you might expect here — for violations of the students» rights to free speech, free exercise of religion and equal protection — the complaint contains a Fourth Amendment claim based on an illegal seizure of the «rubber babies.»
Posts are devoted to news, issues and commentary relating to the free exercise of religion and church - state separation.
«To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.»
That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.»
For example, no law is allowed that establishes a religion or prohibits the free exercise of a religion.
In particular, Gates refers to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, which protects freedom of speech, the right to peaceably assemble, and the free exercise of religion.
As I understand their argument, it is this: The Blaine amendments have the effect of restricting the constitutionally protected rights of freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion protected in the 1st and 14th Amendments.
Religion equity includes the rights of religious minority pupils & free exercise of religion of all
This means that excluding religious schools may violate not one but three separate constitutional provisions: the equal protection clause, the free exercise clause (which protects the free exercise of religion), and the free speech clause.
It sparks not the free exercise of imagination but the pre-set burden of conscience.
Their demand was based not on arguments about double taxation or the free exercise of religion.
With their pro bono representation, I sued several Washington officials, among them Governor Gary Locke, arguing that the state's exclusion of theology majors from the Promise Scholarship program violated my rights to free speech, free exercise of religion, and equal protection under the laws.
The schools claimed that this stipulation and other state standards violated their constitutional rights, including their right to the free exercise of religion.
In Good News Club v. Milford Central School (2001), the court found that restrictions on such afterschool clubs taking place at school facilities violated students» rights to free exercise of religion.
They contend that the kirpans are religious symbols protected by the First Amendment's clause on free exercise of religion.
But, as a governmental institution, neither can it limit its faculty's free exercise of religion or their right to express or publish their properly labeled personal views.
The relatively favorable conditions in which he had placed them were still far from allowing a rational development of the character and of the intellect in all directions, much less of the free exercise of all their faculties.
The defendant, from in or around March 2008 to in or around October 2013, in the County of Monroe, acting in concert with others known and unknown to the Grand Jury, knowingly and intentionally entered into and engaged in and continued to engage in a contract, agreement, arrangement, and combination in unreasonable restraint of combination and the free exercise of activity in the conduct of business, trade, and commerce, specifically, to restrain competition in the bidding process of Monroe County for the Public Safety Contract, by means of bid rigging.
The proposed law does not seem to be a violation of the Civil Rights Act, due to an act of Congress passed in 1993 to «prevent laws that substantially burden a person's free exercise of their religion» called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
This concern has derived, in part, from the growing recognition that the triumph of strict separationism as a legal doctrine, with its promise to expunge all religious symbols from the public arena, may actually infringe upon the free exercise of religion cherished by American Jews.
Simcha Goldman, an Orthodox Jew and ordained rabbi serving as a clinical psychologist in an Air Force hospital, wore a yarmulke at all times and contended that an Air Force dress code regulation which forbade the wearing of «headgear» (such as a yarmulke) while indoors infringed upon his First Amendment right to free exercise of his religious belief.
Calling the free exercise of one's faith «spewing» and «hatred» is precisely part of the problem.
«We support the protection of all Americans including the right to the free exercise of religion, as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.»
They produced a diploma of [Hulegu] guaranteeing express protection and free exercise of their religion.
Furthermore, the chief justice believes that the court, in imposing paternalistic limitations upon the process of full American political discussion, is justified by the evidence to be found in the experiences of other nations: «The history of many countries attests to the hazards of religion intruding into the political arena or of political power intruding into the legitimate and free exercise of religious belief.»
According to the bill, any restriction on the free exercise of religion is valid only if:
Marsden believes that «the free exercise of religion does not extend to the dominant intellectual centers of our culture.»
To which one must respond: the free exercise of intellect often does not extend to the dominant religious centers of our culture.
The Constitution, while prohibiting a religious establishment, protects the free exercise of religion.
On the other hand, as far as lies in your power, you are to protect and support the free exercise of religion of the country, and the undisturbed enjoyment of the rights of conscience in religious matters, with your utmost influence and authority.
What's to stop them from firing single women, people who get divorces, gays, etc., claiming that they can not employ such people because it somehow violates their free exercise of religion?
Also it seems to me that we have a country founded on the principle of free exercise of religious faith — whatever the faith.
Smith and Black claimed that the denial of benefits was an unconstitutional burden on their free exercise of religion, because it penalized them for taking part in what to them was a religious sacrament.
Regarding matters relevant here, consider the recent wholly aggressive «Free Birth Control Rule» attack on the free exercise of religion.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the «negative right» to the free exercise of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment does not prevent individuals from being coerced into obeying laws of general applicability when doing so violates their religious beliefs.
Northwest Europe and its colonies began the risky experiment of granting to all citizens the right to free exercise of their religion.
Citizens have a natural right against the state to free exercise of religion; that's why they should have the civil right to such exercise.
But even if that bastion were, regrettably, to fall, a further protection should be maintained to safeguard the free exercise of religion on the part of organizations seeking to carry out what members believe to be the duties of conscience required by their religious obligations; i.e..
Nevertheless, the free exercise of religion means that religion is permitted to promote also dumb ideas.