Sentences with phrase «from arbitrary power»

Absolutely central to the contemporary civic republican program is the conception of political liberty as non-domination or independence from arbitrary power, and so it makes good sense to begin with an explication of this idea.

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The idea that the capacity to receive from another or to be influenced by another is truly indicative of power is not derived from an arbitrary linguistic decision to extend the term «power» to include the receiving of an influence.

The core idea is that society — including the economy — should be structured so that everyone is secure from subjection to arbitrary power, from having to live «at the mercy» of more powerful others.

Not just New Labour's overwhelming desire to amass all sorts of information about the individual and New Labour's managerial model of how to govern but also, in particular, a steady shift away from «justice» and towards «control»: towards the arbitrary, unconstrained use of power through the regular invocation of states of exception (terror legislation and Iceland is in this category); the creation of catch - all legislation whose operational interpretation is at the whim of the police (photography, questioning individual police officers); government attempts to constrain the judiciary through tick - the - box sentencing guidelines, and at an individual level examples such as David Milliband's quite disgraceful prevarication over torture allegations.

The republican commitment to the view that people can be at liberty only when they are secure — and equally secure — from the exercise of arbitrary power, has significant implications for the «domestic» political economy of states.

It is this struggle that we are fighting today against arbitrary state power, and we invite scholars from all over the world to join us.

All of higher education is negatively impacted by this decision, and to those of us who believe in the power of human reason to improve the human condition, the arbitrary and unsubstantiated basis of the decision moves us away from the cosmopolitan aspirations of democracy and of the Enlightenment, back to an age of darkness.

Also, as an FYI, as a power - consumer of ebooks, the WORST formatted ones, with arbitrary pages of space between paragraphs, etc, are from the major houses, which presumably (but not necessarily) have dedicated html people.

Through the power of the gaze, the viewer is invited to invent their own narrative by piecing together each captured moment from apparently arbitrary or unconnected episodes.

Arbitrary increases in SCC values artificially boost the claimed benefits for emissions reductions in agency cost - benefit analyses on everything from power plant regulations to rules on kitchen appliances.

The Bode forward or µ circuit is supplied with arbitrary auxiliary power (from a battery or somesuch) so as to allow true power gain in the signal path.

These rights protect us from arbitrary and unreasonable exercises of police power, such as illegal searches or unlawful intrusions into our privacy.

Speaking generally, it may be true (as Laws J said in a passage also quoted by Lord Bingham from R v Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Ex p First City Trading [1997] 1 CMLR 250, 278 - 279) that «Wednesbury and European review are two different models — one looser, one tighter — of the same juridical concept, which is the imposition of compulsory standards on decision - makers so as to secure the repudiation of arbitrary power».