Sentences with phrase «liberty as»

The ultimate sanction is a change of custody, but there are many others we could suggest the legal system has traditionally used fines and loss of liberty as punishments for failure to comply with court orders.

Graduated driver's licensing (GDL) laws place limitations on teenager drivers for an appointed period, giving them more liberty as they gain driving experience.

The U.S. Constitution guarantees that a person accused of a crime and who faces loss of life or liberty as punishment has the right to a lawyer even if he or she can't afford one.

The Court of Appeal had treated physical liberty as the starting point and the central issue, and judged that the degree of physical restraint on the claimant's liberty was far from a deprivation of liberty in Art 5 terms.

In Cheshire West, the justices held that disabled people have the same right to liberty as everyone else, and laid down a test for determining Art 5 deprivation of liberty where a person lacked the capacity to consent, even in a domestic setting.

John Mill describes political liberty as not being under legal restraint except those passed by their own constituted law making power according to the trust put into it.

It was in respect of her containment that the appellant brought an action against the Commissioner for damages at common law for false imprisonment and under s 7 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA 1998) in respect of her right to liberty as guaranteed by Art 5 of the Convention.

In the past, these IPCC reports have turned into a lightning rod for attacks by organizations like the Heartland Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, who claim to tout freedom and liberty as their cause, but enjoy big dollar sponsorship from coal and oil companies like Koch Industries, Murray Energy, and ExxonMobil.

So while I'm experiencing this glorious liberty as this very agile fox, I'm also forcing it to do all this stuff because my true character's ethereal form is incapable of this sort of athleticism on its own.

It is not about liberty as the freedom of desire, because this liberty, this freedom of desire, is acquired at the expense of the poverty of others.

Characters repeat poetry about liberty as if they're chanting spells, explore their traumatic, incest - filled childhoods, carelessly stop taking their meds and make snarky, occasionally hilarious comments about the biz.

Does your job allow you some liberty as to what to wear?

Libertarian Muir Boda is seizing the opportunity to advance liberty as the only candidate on the ballot challenging entrenched incumbent Republican Andy Harris in Maryland's 1st District Congressional race.

A «Social Liberal» who is in the party to try and promote equality and redistribution while allowing people to retain as much liberty as possible should be welcome in the Lib Dems.

His predecessor, Paddy Ashdown, has described him as having moved the Liberal Democrats «to what you might call the right... The liberalism of the old Liberal party was a comfortable social liberalism, which didn't take into account economic liberty as well as social liberty.

Alternatively, the ex NSA prays for an order staying further proceedings in the charge until he has exhausted the remedies available to him in law for the enforcement of his right to liberty as preserved by the bail order granted him.

The subsidiary point of right - wingers using this muscular approach to liberty as the means to justify more muscularity on security, while inferring from democracy self - determination and thereby self - sufficiency in order to attack «big state» ideas, is exactly that, subsidiary.

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.

«Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short - lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.»

Indeed, its proponents hoped to «claim on behalf of the Established Church of England the same liberty as has been enjoyed for over 200 years by the Established Church of Scotland».

His understanding of liberty as non-domination is crucial to current republican revival, and his name shows how republicanism predates and shapes both liberal and communitarian positions..

Politics in Spires: The recent revival of republican political theory has sometimes presented the republican tradition as united around a conception of liberty — liberty as non-domination — and a set of institutional prescriptions.

My forthcoming book, Oser la liberté: l'individu comme objectif, le collectif comme moyen («Daring Freedom: the individual as objective, the collective as a means»), further develops an original version of individual liberty as a key concept in articulating the interests of individual citizens from the perspective of progressive change.

Bentham defines liberty as «the absence of restraint», denoting «private» and «public» spheres in which an individual has different levels of personal sovereignty (today defined as «negative liberty»).

The election of John F. Kennedy to the presidency in 1960, and the Vatican Council's endorsement of religious liberty as a fundamental human right, vindicated the confidence of Catholics in America and the American experience of Catholicism.

Those advocating a pro-choice position on abortion will likely see Robertson's notion of procreative liberty as an extension of the rights outlined in Roe v. Wade.

The State's own constitution, the opinion then declared, «treats religious liberty as more important than the formation of government.»

This is what the great historian of liberty, Lord Acton, grasped when he defined liberty as the ability to do not what one wants, but what one ought.

One sign that radicals are biblically faithful rather than ideologically captive will be their readiness to champion religious and political liberty as vigorously as they do justice and peace.

We each have personal beliefs, but we do not have the right to take away other people's liberty as many people are trying to do under the cover of religion.

Justice Blackmun opined that «this right of privacy, whether it is founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determines, in the Ninth Amendment, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy» (emphasis added).

people who truly love liberty as much as the «right» claims to need to respect the liberty of freedom of, and FROM, religion!

form of government, and emboldened by the wide diffusion of a false conception of tolerance, has committed itself in authoritative declarations and by positive acts to a policy plainly subversive of religious liberty as guaranteed by the Constitution.

In my view, these three things are consistent with liberty as described in the Bible.

We need to be prepared to defend the protection of religious liberty as we move into the future.

The democratic ideal is a principle of liberty as well as equality, but again it is necessary to distinguish among types of liberty.

Its two revolutions — its anthropological individualism and the voluntarist conception of choice, and its insistence on the human separation from and opposition to nature — created its distinctive and new understanding of liberty as the most extensive possible expansion of the human sphere of autonomous activity in the service of the fulfillment of the self.

Liberalism instead understands liberty as the condition in which one can act freely within the sphere that is unconstrained by positive law.

The rhetoric of the American Declaration of Independence may speak of «rights» to life and liberty as inalienable, but the enjoyment of such rights within society was and is conditional; otherwise deprivation of liberty by penal incarceration would be inconceivable.

At any rate, it's an economic view of liberty as a means that brings with it a political commitment to an activist, interventionist tax policy of incentives and disincentives.

In Virginia, he had defended religious liberty both as a natural right and as the solemn guarantee of a state constitution that set the «metes and bounds» of public authority.

In «Our First, Most Cherished Liberty» there is talk of religious liberty as the «first freedom» and a tip of the cap to the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement.

Corporations are not people and do not enjoy religious liberty as described by the First Amendment.

Changing political circumstances altered political ideals over the next seventy years, such that pro-Catholic thinkers such as Félicité de Lamennais gradually began to endorse liberalism's doctrine of religious liberty as a way of providing safe harbor for the Church's social influence within a French state that was no longer officially Catholic.

The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.

This untoward result - interpreting a Constitution intended to guarantee religious liberty as requiring affirmative discrimination against people of faith - would seem to be the necessary result of a doctrine of separation that invalidates government action that lacks a «secular purpose» or has the effect of «advanc [ing]... religion» (Lemon v. Kurtzman [1970]-RRB-.

The signatories declared themselves to be in solidarity in their unequivocal support of the dignity and right to life of every human person, marriage between a man and a woman as divinely ordained and the foundation of civil society, and religious liberty as an essential component of human freedom.

He has co-written articles and a Supreme Court brief (with Douglas Laycock) on how government can protect religious liberty as well as same - sex civil marriage.

All three rehearse certain of the basic religious concepts such as covenant, consent, fundamental law, and liberty as these related to the emergence and the carrying through of the Revolution.

And he regards Wojtyla's long experience with totalitarianism as a training ground in the appreciation of republicanism, observing in this regard that «no Pontiff in modern times has ever come to the See of Peter with greater personal devotion to the principles of civil liberties as the natural and revealed rights of man than has John Paul II.»