Sentences with phrase «law citizens live»

I understand the fundamentals of a country — the law citizens live by and the rules of citizenship.

Not exact matches

Even if these families had the means, suing wouldn't be worth the legal fees because state legislators passed a law barring citizens from winning compensation for damages related to health, quality of life, enjoyment of property, or lost income caused by factory farms.

Constitutional Amendment 14 (this one specifically applies to Pan's Bill): ``... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»

When we fail to respond to the needs and vulnerabilities of our citizens, we revert to the law of the jungle, permitting only the powerful to determine how we shall live.

Evangelicals, speak the truth: Speak FOR guns; they are used millions of times by law abiding citizens and save thousands of lives each year.

In the United States more illegal shooting happen in the Washington DC and Maryland area where guns are totally outlawed than in free to carry states like Arizona where I live because chances are in the DC area the hard working and law abiding citizen does not carry a gun.

We have a representative democracy which tends to validate religious belief instead of recognizing that they should have NO ROLE where religion is concerned other than to protect it's citizens, religious or not, and allowing all to live within the basic laws of the country which should have wide support and sound evidence supporting the need for them.

The National Rifle Association could use its tremendous wealth and power to promote realistic laws that all citizens, including sportsmen and those genuinely needing protection, could live with in much greater safety.

Edward J. Larson, a Pepperdine professor of law and history and a Pulitzer Prize winner, fills in six missing years of Washington's life as a private citizen, from the formal close of the Revolutionary War in 1783 to his inauguration as president in 1789.

After World War II, an American journalist returned to Germany to live in a remote town in hopes of discovering why law - abiding citizens followed the leadership of Adolf Hitler.

All citizens must have basic rights to life and liberty, and political rights to the vote and to equal protection under the law.

Kennedy's decision, now the law of the land, forces us to ask a series of critically important questions: Are citizens» whether Protestants, Catholics, Jews, or Mormons» who seek to apply transcendent moral values to public life welcome in political, legal, and cultural debates?

Innumerable silly, noxious, and even perverse laws dot the nation's statutory landscape, making life inconvenient (or worse) for all sorts of freedom - loving citizens.

Then he turned to more individualistic terms to define fairness as «a bargain in American life»: «When you work hard and pay your taxes; when you're a good parent and citizen; when you obey the law and play by the rules you have a right to expect certain things in exchange, as a part of the bargain.

For example, under extended international law no nation should be allowed to maintain a system of slavery or to cause its citizens to suffer loss of life, health, or property without just cause.

These laws govern the lives of the citizens; they set out to improve certain conditions and to create other conditions; they determine what is right and may be done and what is wrong and may not be done?

It is to be hoped that, instead, cooler heads will prevail and that citizens, through their elected leaders, will create by law the incentives which will encourage the industry to reduce the violence while still making a good living.

Terrorist conflict, martial law and nonrepresentative governments distort the quality of life for millions of citizens around the world.

The form in which he originally proposed it was: «The Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper to secure to the citizens of each state all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states and to all persons in the several states equal protection in the rights of life, liberty, and property.»

«Citizens who signed the on - line petition agree that releasing her from prison would minimize the lives of those killed and is a slap in the face to all law enforcement officers who dedicate their lives to protecting our communities.»

So instead the law would likely say that they expect a tax to be payed by these large company whenever they process a transaction for a US citizen (actual law would be a bit more complicated since someone living in Germany who buying a service from another German citizen who just happens to also be a US Citizen shouldn't be taxed, but the general idea of calling out which transactions the US claims tax on still applies...)

«Law abiding, tax - paying LGBT New Yorkers, and parents of LGBT children, should not have to worry that their governor will be siding with those who feel we are less than, that we are second class citizens living less valid lives than our neighbors,» Levi said in a statement that appears in full after the jump.

According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens

We increasingly live the radical pluralism of an age where citizens and corporations and networks can cooperate, deploy power and sustainably circumvent not necessarily the law, but the institutions of the state.

Furthermore, every citizen would be free to live wherever he or she likes in accordance with the law.

«If you are a law - abiding citizen of this country going about your business and your personal life you have nothing to fear — nothing to fear about the British state or intelligence agencies listening to the contents of your phone calls or anything like that.

What occupies the mind of citizens here are material concerns that are subject to the law of necessity — that is, the circular, endless process of sustaining one's natural lives and of satiating natural needs and wants.

In the 1950s, at the height of the Cold War, Joseph Boakye Danquah, one of the revered founding fathers of our nation, stated, when defining the vision and policy of our party, that: «Our duty is to liberate the energies of the people for the growth of a property - owning democracy in this land, with a right to life, and freedom and justice as the principles to which the government and laws of the land should be dedicated to in order specifically to enrich the lives, property and liberty of each and every citizen.»

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

A small percentage of Palestinians live in Area C, which is not subject to the same laws as Israel is, but those Palestinians are not citizens of Israel (and almost every Palestinian who has been offered citizenship has declined).

Our Department of Health has been at the forefront in educating law enforcement and emergency responders, as well as private citizens, in the use of life saving Narcan and has been on the frontlines of the epidemic in other ways I will talk more about later.

Nothing shouts hypocrisy from the mountaintop like right wingers trying to ram through a Federal law to officially sanction government intrusion into the private lives of its citizens.

The laws of the land are therefore left at the mercy of interpretation by enforcers at the risk of the lives of innocent citizens who are only seeking their rights in a peaceful protest.

Mr Justice Blake found that British citizens have «a fundamental right of constitutional significance recognised by the common law» to live in their home country.

She said every citizen of this deserves the right to life hence it is disappointing to the people of Ghana «the people or the personnel that we've entrusted in them to protect and ensure law and order are rather at loggerhead».

The statement re-emphasize that the command will not stand idly and allow any person or group of persons to violate the laws of country by engaging in conducts that are perilous to public peace and order as well as the lives and properties of other law abiding citizens, please.

While calling on aggrieved citizens and groups to maintain law and order, the CBCN said that the government must live up to its responsibilities to the citizens in order for development to occur in the country.

Fox is upset at a law which allows Commonwealth citizens living in the UK to vote in general elections.

«Every law abiding citizen is assured of equal protection and security of lives and property irrespective of his or her person.»

It, however, assured every law - abiding citizen of equal protection and security of lives and property irrespective of status.

The Law, enacted in 1945, affords every citizen «an equal opportunity to enjoy a full and productive life.»

He said the Army will continue to protect lives and property of all law - abiding citizens plying the road, while urging returnees to provide timely information on elements of the Boko Haram, to security agents.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

He explained that the governor who had a responsibility to protect the lives and property of law abiding citizens of the state was committed to fulfilling the mandate given to him by the people to perform this task.

Although citizen science initiatives encourage individuals from all walks of life to get out into nature, greater engagement is needed to bring diverse populations to national parks, argued Theodore Roosevelt IV, an investment banker and conservationist and the great - grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt, who signed into law the creation of five National Parks.

Further, to consider a specific example, the United States Constitution provides all citizens «equal protection of the laws» and states that no person can be deprived of «life, liberty or property without due process of law».

Instead, you follow the lives of strangers: Matt Damon as a citizen experiencing his family and friends dying all around him while society crumbles; Laurence Fishburne as the Director of the CDC who not only has to face the media, but work with his team to find a cure for the HEV - 1 virus; Kate Winslet as a CDC field agent on her first assignment; Jude Law as the blogging internet prophet who may have ulterior motives behind his website; and Marion Cotillard as a doctor from the W.H.O as she investigates the origins in China.

In 1954, the Supreme Court in its landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision ruled that separate school facilities based on race are inherently unequal and thus in violation of the 14th Amendment which states, in part: «No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.»

«Citizens who live in Anacostia are entitled by law to be treated the same as those who live on Albemarle.»

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