Sentences with phrase «liberty under the constitution»

Part V of [Yoo's] memorandum also contains certain broad statements on page 24 suggesting that First Amendment speech and press rights and other guarantees of individual liberty under the Constitution would potentially be subordinated to overriding military necessities.

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If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

Massachusetts and others among the founding thirteen states, while protecting the full religious liberty of citizens under their new constitutions after Independence, maintained an established church and entrusted important moral and educational tasks to church communities with state support, direct or indirect.

Under such a worldview, the religious liberty guaranteed in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is downgraded to a more manageable freedom of worship, with the secularizing elites implicitly claiming to preside impartially over the rival communities of the faithful.

Speaking on the «Overview of Human Rights provisions under the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, the President of * YoHRA *, Lawyer Francis - Xavier Sosu said «Ghana's 1992 Constitution is one of the finest documents that in my view guarantees and protects fundamental liberties.

While government and its operatives go about their businesses, like anybody else, they must be mindful, that all citizens have rights and liberties that must be protected as guaranteed under the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana.

According to the applicant, his arrest and detention constituted a gross violation of an infringement upon his dignity, personal liberty, fair hearing and freedom of movement as enshrined and guaranteed under sections 34, 35, 36,41,46 of the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) and Articles 4,5,6 and 12 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights.

Comment: The legal fiction (aided and abetted by widespread public misconceptions about what constitutes a «parent» under the law) also is responsible for the avalanching trend — contrary to historical jurisprudence and contrary to the relationship - based notion of «family» that underlies the «liberty interest» respected by the U.S. Constitution — to consider unwed nonresident biological sires to be «legal fathers.»