Sentences with phrase «individual rights of citizens»

There is no instance in all my memory, where the ARI has blatantly said that torture is the right course of action, but always have stated basically «in war, if a method works to either defeat the enemy or prevent our civilians or soldiers from being killed, then it is completely moral, since the government's moral duty is to protect the individual rights of its citizens.»

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Attorneys who safeguard privacy issues for citizens should look into how California's Department of Developmental Services is violating individual service provider's rights by demanding unnannounced visits to their homes.

«Crypto Valley was initiated by Johann Gevers after identifying Switzerland with its decentralized, citizen - controlled political system, its centuries - old culture of individual rights, innovation, and entrepreneurship, its neutrality, stability, and business - friendly environment... for building the new generation of decentralized technologies.»

Islam recognizes that the right of private discretion belongs to any individual who possesses the capacity for clear thinking and study, whether man or woman, ruler or subject, leading government civil servant or private citizen.

It also prevents a majority from easily taking away the rights of minorities for it's third primary function of protecting individual liberties of American citizens, whether they belong to a majority or a minority we are to be equal under the law.

One political position customary among Jews, and often shared also among the more observant, is that of not interfering in the choices of freedom that the state makes for its citizens, reserving only to the individual conscience the right and duty of making rigorous personals choices on arguments in which the law of the state makes room for autonomy and freedom.

Thus, the constitution must also stipulate the right of all individuals or citizens to be participants in the democratic discourse.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

A number of dictatorial countries» including some that Freedom House has ranked among the worst violators of human rights» flatly asserted that individual rights must remain subservient to those of the state, a stipulation that, if accepted, would effectively strip the individual citizen of his rights.

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.

He highlighted Britain's achievements as a «pluralist democracy which places great value on freedom of speech, freedom of political affiliation and respect for the rule of law, with a strong sense of the individual's rights and duties, and of the equality of all citizens before the law and noted that there was much in common here with Catholic social teaching.

Conflicts arise between individual freedom of choice and the right of the state to protect and promote the welfare of all its citizens.

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..

Is the Hospital (an organization)'s right to enforce what it believes to be right more valid than an individual citizen's right to freedom of religion and receipt of protections given by Federal law?

-- to brotherhood, fatherhood and motherhood: In Western cultures, individualism and «Republican» values have reduced the individual person to a «citizen» with «rights», seeking his or her own «empowerment», a citizen who is not first and foremost a member of a family.

«Whether such cases end in conviction or acquittal appears to rest on, firstly, the ability of police or prosecutors to link the defendant with a particular association, and secondly, whether the judge decides to uphold an individual's constitutional right to share beliefs as a private citizen,» Victoria Arnold reported for Forum 18.

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

Although many of these claims challenge the veracity of «organic,» «healthy,» and «100 %» claims on labels, several states are affording new opportunities to attack ingredient labels — an area that federal courts have traditionally found to be preempted (barred) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with no private right of action for individual citizens.

To establish the rights of individual citizens, our claims on the institutions of power and the authority that institutions can exercise over us as citizens.

He seeks to bridge the left and right under the party that has long sought to protect individual rights and limit the power of government in the lives of citizens.

But — just as our human rights underdetermine our rights as citizens of a particular country — the «human rights» of animals (grounded in intrinsic moral status) under - determine rights (and duties) owed to (and by) individual animals on the basis of their relations with other human and animal community members.

Whereas sensible people think «ok, the state needs to go back in its box and respect individual citizens, for example by taking seriously and respecting their individual rights», Blond thinks «hmm, authoritarianism - let's just get rid of rights altogether and encourage Virtue!»

«In fact, she's already called for higher taxes on individuals and small businesses; she supports an energy plan that would increase our electricity costs; she promises a single - payer health care system that would further destroy our health care and economy; and she wants to force federal gun restrictions that would take away the Second Amendment rights of law - abiding citizens.»

As one response, some corporate copyright owners have attempted to use digital rights management software to control how owners of copies of individual works can use them, sparking in turn what is essentially a worldwide citizen revolt.

Chuka Umunna has recently made welcome noises about changing the voting system; some voices one would once have associated with 1997 - era orthodoxy have lately been making the case for a citizen's income; the idea of an unconditional payment granted to every individual as a right of citizenship..

NYSRPA believes it is important to have elected representatives at all levels of government who respect the individual civil rights of citizens to keep and bear arms and we encourage all gun owners to support Martin Halley for County Legislature for the March 29 special election.

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.

Getting yourself involved in the governance of your country is an individual right that must be well expressed and voting during an election must be well exercised with moral and civic responsibility as a citizen of a State.

This «speech» right basically allows them to take the equivalent of a giant bullhorn and drown out all individual citizen voices.

When members of parliament, and even Cabinet ministers, publicly condemn individual citizens for exercising their right to litigate in our courts, and trash the judges who properly hear those cases as «defying the will of the people», the separation of powers teeters on the brink.

If adopted, the bill which is copied from repressive countries like Somalia, Ethiopia and Uganda, would have a chilling effect not only on expressions of peaceful dissent by the citizens but also on the legitimate work of NGOs and individual human rights defenders and activists scrutinizing corruption in the National Assembly and exposing human rights violations by the government.»

In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations and unions can be considered individuals as far as their political contributions are concerned and that restricting their ability to donate to candidates amounted to a violation of their First Amendment right of free speech.

For this reason, every international human rights treaty uses in its transcripts the universal terms as «everyone» or «no one» refer to individuals instead of the word «citizens» (Alston et al, 2007, p 517 - 518).

In this realization, advancing global citizen's movement to shepherd the transition to a sustainable, equitable, and democratic future, one in which ethics is both a right and a responsibility — at the level of the individual, the community and the planet has become more important than ever.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

In a move of potential significance to public schools nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court last week accepted an appeal involving the right of individuals to sue when government entities fail to protect them from violence by private citizens.

The time for a collaborative, networked approach that includes support for individual teacher - leaders as well as advancing systemic change might just be right, as Generation Y, the «Me» Generation is being replaced by the «C» Generation, a psychographic group emerging on both sides of the Atlantic as highly connected, pluralistic, multi-cultural, media - savvy digital citizens with shared values and lifestyles.

20th Century Chinese history is, as Lee points - out, the story of several hundred millions of people dragged from the middle ages to the 21st Century in the space of eighty years purely on the basis of the motives of powerful individuals in a society where the citizen must fight for the right to individuality - and even this slim hope was denied under the Maoist regime and the Gang of Four.

Over more than 45 years of practice, Sirkin has consistently defended the free speech and constitutional rights of countless individuals and businesses, including adult entertainment establishments, museums, artists, activists, and ordinary citizens in all types of cases.

In the PEN / TWUC release, Charlie Foran, President of PEN Canada said, «The government of Canada has no right to determine what is an acceptable opinion for an individual citizen, on climate change or any matter of public interest.

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

It seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on power, especially of government and religion, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy that supports relatively free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of all citizens are protected.

After all, the spirit of free movement law seems to be that the right to residence is not solely the reward for meritorious behavior; it is supposed to protect even those individuals who are no model citizens, as is for example expressed in the decision Orfanopoulos.

Just like the job - seeking EU citizen who lost his / her worker status, the Citizenship Directive itself provides for the economically inactive in his first three months of residence a «gradual system -LSB-...] which seeks to safeguard the right of residence and access to social assistance», taking into consideration «various factors characterising the individual situation of each applicant for social assistance and, in particular, the duration of the exercise of any economic activity» (paras 46 - 48).

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.

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.

In my opinion the ECJ's decision in Taricco I that national courts must disapply the rules of statutes of limitations if they prevent Member States from fulfilling their obligations under Article 325 TFEU (in the present case, the relevant Italian legislation) leads to perceiving serious fraud as a crime against the rights and interests of citizens, i.e., against fundamental social human rights guaranteed under Articles 2 and 3 of the Italian Constitution, and hence calls for resolving the conflict within the Italian Constitution by balancing the rights under these articles and the accused's individual rights guaranteed by the legality principle (Art. 25 (2) Const.).

Like the citizens of a country, the independent nations of Europe (those that have signed the agreement) have ceded some individual power to a court to administer and protect their shared values with respect to human rights.

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.