Sentences with phrase «individual citizens do»

The term can also suggest that individual citizens do not have any moral pattern of behavior imposed upon them by the state.

Not exact matches

That's likely part of the reason that enrollment dropped, as Americans making more than 400 % of the Federal Poverty Level (about $ 48,000 for an individual or $ 98,000 for a family of four) wouldn't be shielded from those rising premiums because they don't qualify for federal subsidies that lower - income citizens do.

Also, individual states may have different tax structures for non-US citizens than they do for US citizens.

Maybe instead of targeting our citizens with reductions in benefits and higher taxes, our government should do away with individual tax deductions for non-profits including religious organizations.

Nothing in the affordable care act requires an individual citizen to do anything, it targets organizations and companies with employees.

Being a «prisoner» in Iran and yes I mean prisoner and not citizen does not give the regime there the right to murder individuals who think differently.

Doctrine and Covenants 134:9 9 We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied.

For «many citizens who do not share these religious views hold such a compulsory rite to infringe constitutional liberty of the individual.»

The lawsuit does not identify the plaintiff, but describes him as «an adult male individual who is a citizen and resident of the State of Delaware.»

To conclude, here are some specific things Christians can do as individuals in their roles as citizens and voters.

This country was founded on freedom of religion and individual rights... i personally don't give a hoot... what denomination a individual is as long as he or she is a good honest caring American citizen... I remember JFK, everyone said no one would vote for a Catholic..

@Maria, As I said before, if you do it to protect individual citizen's rights, and you do it evenly to ALL religions; yes, you can.

If individuals do choose to unite with their families by entering without permission, the united family often includes a mix of undocumented people, legal permanent residents and U.S. citizens.

Hawaii, do you believe some individual citizens have the right to self protection while advocating the removal of that right from others?

Also note that companies like Catalist and NGPVAN don't just sell the voter file; they typically add additional data, for instance by cross-referencing voter information with consumer databases to build up demographic profiles of individual citizens.

In June of 2007, the political world was just waking up to the idea that individual citizens were going to shake up how political communications was done.

Donovan did caution, however, that his resolution of the Crespo case «should not be taken as an indication of a resolution of any other possible investigations of Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council / Hope Gardens, or affiliated individuals, which may be undertaken by other law enforcement entities.»

Lacking a codified constitution setting out the rights of citizens, many believed that the doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty did not provide adequate protections for individual rights from intrusive government.

Restricting speech or spending for a corporation does not in any way restrict an individual's ability to exercise their free speech, or to spend, as individual citizens.

«Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.»

It is even possible that — Individual Electoral Registration notwithstanding — citizens who do not normally vote, and those eligible to vote for the first time, will turn out for Labour in sufficient numbers to swing the result.

Do they wish to go down an old and trodden path with Supervisor Gromack that has taken the town to the second highest property taxes in the United States where senior citizens were to be sold out to protect the Town's reserve fund and its bond street rating, where the properety values of citizens living in the Town of Clarkstown would not be protected by implementation of a Ward System, where consolidation of purchasing functions with the County would not occur, and where systemic corruption would continue to grow as revealed by several arrests of individuals receiving compensation from the Town?

Only if we do is there any hope of achieving this ultimate security, which concerns less the state than the individual citizen's quest for access to water, food, shelter, health and employment.

But, it was the Free Speech Coalition that highlighted Manhunt's mission to give back to the industry and the community by awarding Manhunt and Jonathan Crutchley with the Netizen Award, given to the company and individual who has done the most and been the best citizen for the industry through the internet.

If individuals do not understand the global interdependencies that influence public affairs in every country, regarding trade for example, or environmental degradation, they are likely to make poor decisions as individual consumers, producers, or citizens.

However, as Reimers warned in an interview for Usable Knowledge, «If individuals do not understand the global interdependencies that influence public affairs in every country, regarding trade for example, or environmental degradation, they are likely to make poor decisions as individual consumers, producers, or citizens.»

It means creating an environment, as she did with her class'd spring 2003 study of the Iraq war, where students feel empowered — as individuals, as students, and as citizens.

If we're going to reinvent schools, I'd like us to do so in a manner that respects the broad purpose of the schoolhouse, which means paying due attention to the arts, to a rich curriculum, and, perhaps most important of all, to helping students develop as moral individuals and citizens.

There are several versions of NAEP intended to sample different groups of students — the nation as a whole, individual states, or large cities — but its overall goal is to provide citizens a snapshot of how we're doing as a country.

Under New Public Management, citizens are viewed as customers «that do not share common purposes but rather seek to optimize their own individual benefit» (p. 60).

Benefits to Public: Federal support for transit infrastructure provides transportation alternatives for all allowing individuals who do not have vehicles, persons with disabilities, people with low income, and senior citizens to have basic mobility to access medical, employment and leisure locations.

With greater understanding, individual citizens can do a lot to push their governments to be more responsible and accountable beyond their borders.

Although government agencies do not represent individual citizens, agencies charged with enforcing laws such as the FCRA do investigate reported violations.

Senior citizens, handicapped individuals, and those that don't feel comfortable driving can rest assure that their pet will be in excellent hands and they will be able to be right there to watch and support.

What responsibilities do individual American citizens have with regards to shaping the country's criminal justice system?

That's what doesn't register amongst the Tea Party, and where much of its magical thinking about the environment falls apart — you can't protect the nation's air, water, and wildlife just by being a determined, individual citizen and guiding your personal choice towards the morally correct end.

«Kerry will call on the global community, not just countries but individual citizens around the world, to do more now because addressing the threat of climate change will require a global solution,» a senior state department official is reported as saying.

The right to individual liberty of action providing it does not infringe on the rights of other rights - respecting citizens.

But simply pursuing strategies to motivate individual behavioral change without helping citizens understand how the cultural understanding of climate change was manufactured by morally indefensible strategies, does little to change the cultural understanding of the problem held by many.

In all honesty, I didn't care about the journalistic ethics involved here because what Gleick did was done as an individual, as an activist, and a citizen.

In the converse event that the withdrawal of the United Kingdom leads to the citizens of the state losing EU citizenship, they make an alternative claim that the Dutch State does not restrict the rights arising therefrom without an individual assessment of the proportionality principle first being carried out.

They do not provide objective assurances that individual citizens can be adequately protected from persecution.»

Despite not relying on an individual right to find that the electoral law falls within the scope of Union law, the Court does find for the first time that Union citizens do enjoy a specific and autonomous right to vote in European Parliamentary elections contained in Article 39 CFR.

If the H - 1B visa employee who was not hired or was fired for failing a drug test did not find new comparable work within six months, the visa would expire, and that individual would be deportable if (1) the Department of Homeland Security chose to begin deportation proceedings, and (2) the employee could not obtain another visa (e.g. a spouse visa following a marriage to a U.S. citizen) that would allow that individual to obtain a valid visa on some other grounds, and (3) the H - 1B employee had no valid reason to claim asylum in the United States due to a threat of persecution if deported.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

penalizes the defendant for engaging in public participation «plaintiff» means a person who initiates or maintains a proceeding against a defendant; «proceeding» means any action, suit, matter, cause, counterclaim, appeal, or originating application that is brought in the Supreme Court or the Provincial Court, but does not include a prosecution for an offence or a crime; «public interest» means the whole of the subject matter invites public attention, or a matter in which the public has some substantial concern because it affects the welfare of citizens, or one to which considerable public notoriety or controversy has attached; «public participation» means communication or conduct aimed at influencing public opinion, or promoting further lawful action by the public or any government body, in relation to an issue of public interest; «Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP)» means a claim that arises from a form of expression or public participation, by the person against whom the claim is asserted that was made in connection with an official proceeding or about a matter of public interest; Purposes of this Act: 2 The purposes of this Act are to a) Establish a statutory right to public participation for every individual; b) Encourage individuals to express themselves on matters of public interest; c) Promote broad participation in debates on matters of public interest; d) Discourage the use of litigation as a means of unduly limiting expression on matters of public interest; and, e) Preserve the right of access to the courts for all proceedings and claims that are not brought or maintained for an improper purpose.

1) You must be a permanent resident or a citizen of Canada (though you do not have to currently be living in Canada, as long as you are planning to return to Canada for the period of time that the sponsered individual will be arriving),

Our dedicated team of Massachusetts Whistleblower Attorneys is pleased to provide legal representation to the courageous individuals doing their part to put an end to acts of fraud against taxpaying citizens.

It is honest because it provides for doing justice without respect of persons, and, by securing individual citizens as well as States in their respective rights, performs the promise which every free government makes to every free citizen of equal justice and protection.

53 By contrast, although the aim of Directive 2004/38 is to facilitate and strengthen the exercise of the primary and individual right — conferred directly on all Union citizens by the Treaty — to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States (see Case C ‑ 127 / 08 Metock and Others [2008] ECR I ‑ 6241, paragraphs 82 and 59; Case C ‑ 162 / 09 Lassal [2010] ECR I ‑ 9217, paragraph 30; and Case C ‑ 434 / 09 McCarthy [2011] ECR I ‑ 3375, paragraph 28), it is also intended, as is apparent from Article 1 (a) thereof, to set out the conditions governing the exercise of that right (see, to that effect, McCarthy, paragraph 33, and Joined Cases C ‑ 424 / 10 and C ‑ 425 / 10 Ziolkowski and Szeja [2011] ECR I ‑ 14035, paragraphs 36 and 40), which include, where residence is desired for a period of longer than three months, the condition laid down in Article 7 (1)(b) of the directive that Union citizens who do not or no longer have worker status must have sufficient resources.