Sentences with phrase «government establishment of»

It's too bad that America's Founding Fathers didn't think to prohibit government establishment of religion.

U.S. District Court Judge William H. Orrick of San Francisco rejected arguments that the so - called «off the top» funding method violates the First Amendment's ban on government establishment of religion by giving an unfair edge in funding to religious schools.

U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. of Cleveland ruled Dec. 20 that the city's state - enacted voucher plan violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on a government establishment of religion.

The California Supreme Court rules that prayers at public - high - school graduation ceremonies violate the U.S. Constitution's ban on government establishment of religion.

A federal district judge ruled that the display is an unconstitutional government establishment of religion.

A special public - school district set up to serve students with disabilities from a Hasidic Jewish village in New York State represents an unconstitutional government establishment of religion, a state judge has ruled.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, in San Francisco, voted 15 - 9 against formal reconsideration of the 2 - 1 ruling last June by a panel of the court that the inclusion of the words «under God» in the pledge was an unconstitutional government establishment of religion.

A group of state taxpayers has challenged the programs, enacted by the state legislature in 1984 and 1985, as violating the clauses in the New York State and United States constitutions that bar government establishment of religion.

The Nov. 9 high court action leaves intact a ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court that said the voucher program's inclusion of religious schools does not violate the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against government establishment of religion.

Even if their transformative methods work, they constitute an example of government establishment of religion.»

Although it is certainly true that the Charter (Canada's constitutional bill of rights) does not contain an explicit textual limitation on government establishments of religion, this prohibition is effectuated in other ways...

Not exact matches

To ensure that the Government delivers on its commitments, a new results and delivery approach will be implemented that includes the establishment of the Cabinet Committee on Agenda, Results and Communications, chaired by the Prime Minister, and a Results and Delivery Unit, housed in the Privy Council Office.

The establishment of a Southern Ports Authority has been postponed after the state government confirmed that three new regional port authorities will commence operations from July 1.

Overall, I think my age brings more to the table than not, and the idea that someone who isn't affiliated with a political party, didn't have the blessing of the establishment, and who doesn't have deep pockets was able to get elected into a substantial government office is pretty exciting.

The imperative has captured an enormous demographic of angry voters disenfranchised with the government and establishment.

These emotions translate into fears of immigration, globalization, free trade, and technology — all themes that fan flames of distrust in government and the establishment.

And even then, «success» in Somalia meant the establishment of a weak and struggling government in Mogadishu, along with Shabaab's transformation into a virulent insurgency capable of striking beyond Somalia's borders.

However, the government added, such targets should be «ambitious enough to lead to absolute reductions in emissions and thus support the establishment of a fixed cap on emissions.»

The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) has announced the establishment of a new project called the Canada India Institute Industry Linkages Project (CIIILP) that will assist the government of India in making technical education more responsive to the changing socio - economic environment.

In the 2008 Budget, the Government proposed the establishment of the Canada Employment Insurance Financing Board (CEIFB), a Crown corporation.

Nakamoto had a imaginative and prescient of ending a world by which governments, monetary establishments and some elites are in cost of the financial techniques and make choices based mostly on their very own private pursuits.

A few other stories relate a crucial 10 seconds in the Teck - Hughes acquisition, the accidental foray into Saskatchewan oil, the Toronto establishment snubbing Afton because of its VSE listing, an underhanded ultimatum from the British Columbia government, getting out of the oyster business and winning an unheard - of 130 % financing for Hemlo.

Constitutional Amendment 1: «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances»

«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should «make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,» thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.»

Religion should not be taught or pushed within the confines or campus of any government establishment.

The First Amendment states that our government shall NOT RESPECT the establishment of a religion.

But it's the government endorsing it, and let's be honest the NDP promotes evangelical Christianity, that is a violation of the establishment clause.

If any regimes should be worried this day and age its the establishment of the United States Government who has for the past decade removed freedom more and more and inprisioned more people than any country in the world.

While Berger's rightward drift isolated him from a left - leaning academic establishment, it also connected him to a new and wider world beyond the ivory tower, a world of D.C. think tanks and private foundations, of government officials and Texas billionaires.

Peace based on a desire for mere survival can be idolatrous, can be unjust in our acceptance of some lesser evil — the enslavement of Eastern Europe, a totalitarian government, a monolithic defense establishment — in the name of security and order.

The «establishment of religion» clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church.

Whether or not the present Government will seek to reintroduce some of these measures remains to be seen, but there has certainlybeen no let - up in the efforts of the sex education establishment to lobby in favour of statutory SRE and to remove the right of parents to opt out.

Strict «Separationists» have questioned the legality of this because they state that it violates United States Const.itution which forbids the government from passing any law respecting the establishment of a religion.

Elimination of the French, of course; but also an economic recession, the establishment of a dictatorial state, a false and altogether regressive socialism, and the condemnation of all who had participated in the violent struggle, because they proved completely unfitted for conducting a rational government.

Ever since 1947, when the Supreme Court first applied the First Amendment's establishment clause to the states in Everson v. Board of Education, the court has held that government must be neutral on matters of religion.

He wanted to go to Poland to celebrate the thousandth anniversary of the establishment of the Polish hierarchy in 1966, but the Polish government denied him a visa.

Under the establishment clause every person is also entitled to government that does not sponsor, support or inculcate one religion, religion in general or all religions collectively; that does not prefer one religion over another; that does not build up the real estate or the personnel of a religious institution or set up religious proprietaries not required to supply state - impaired religious access; and that does not compose, initiate or promulgate official prayers, rites or liturgies, or otherwise «play church.»

But in many recent cases they have tended to agree more readily on another thesis: that the free - exercise clause does not interpose protections of religious obligations and practices that it once did (from 1940 to 1981), and that the establishment clause does not have the, force against government action that it once did (from 1948 to 1985)

The court has been whittling back on both free - exercise and establishment - clause claims in favor of wider amplitude for the exercise of the powers of government.

There is a big difference between government having people in it and policies affected by beliefs (religious or otherwise) but that is a far cry from a theocracy or an establishment of one religion over another which is what the Founders were leery of.

The establishment of the military is a government ideal.

Romney is not speaking for the government of the United States of America, thus, there is no problem with the Separation issue... OR BETTER PUT, the Establishment issue.

The task is to extend the First Amendment's prohibition of an establishment of religion and abridgement of speech and press to private as well as public government.

In his account, the no - establishment rule serves religious freedom by protecting the autonomy and independence of religious institutions from government interference.

«In the United States, «Comsat» — the Communications Satellite Corporation — Is planning the first launching of a commercial - type communication satellite in 1966, and the company expects its initial system with global capacity to be in operation by 1967..., The establishment of such a system would, however, also have important legal and political aspects, such as the participation of governments in the ownership, use and management of the satellite system.

The new directors of the CIA, its main internal branches, the National Security Agency, and many other key organs of the «defense establishment» are now military (or ex-military) officers, strongly suggesting that the military does not need to take over the government in order to control it.

The people of the United States became mere spectators as an array of ideological extremists, vested interests, and foreign operatives — including domestic neoconservatives, Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi exiles, the Israeli Lobby, the petroleum and automobile industries, warmongers and profiteers allied with the military - industrial complex, and the entrenched interests of the professional military establishment — essentially hijacked the government.

23 / The establishment of a Commission Board composed of national government delegations is warranted by more than the financial responsibility they would assume.

Lets look at the 1st amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

[1] The Establishment Clause has generally been interpreted to prohibit 1) the establishment of a national religion by Congress, or 2) the preference by the U.S. government of one religion Establishment Clause has generally been interpreted to prohibit 1) the establishment of a national religion by Congress, or 2) the preference by the U.S. government of one religion establishment of a national religion by Congress, or 2) the preference by the U.S. government of one religion over another.