Sentences with phrase «make arbitrary laws»
If all people are created equal by virtue of inalienable rights (those rights which don't come from government - see 9th Amendment and «inalienable rights»), then any laws must acknowledge the self - ownership of all individuals otherwise they are illegitimate (we know that governments are bad about this since they make arbitrary laws which harm people which violated no one else's rights but merely violated a law - like seat belt laws).
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The complaint states that in promulgating the final revisions to PTE 84 - 24, which make the exemption available to «fixed rate annuities,» as defined by DOL, but not to one class of fixed annuities — specifically, «fixed indexed annuities» — the Department «acted without providing adequate notice and an opportunity for comment, reflecting arbitrary and capricious conduct in excess of its statutory authority and in clear violation of its obligations to make necessary findings under applicable law.»
Because there's nothing arrogant about believing that a being powerful enough to create the universe is watching you and reading your mind 24/7 to make sure that you obey a set of arbitrary laws set down by a specific group of middle - eastern men thousands of years ago, and listening to your prayers so that he can fulfill your requests if he feels like it.
The real deal is: «the law given to Moses aims at protecting the wife from arbitrary domination by the husband» and» the Apostle Paul makes clear when he says: «Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her,» adding at once:» «For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one.»
When the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions made inquiries into drone attacks in 2002, and again in 2005, the U.S. responded by claiming that such incidents do not fall within the jurisdiction of the rapporteur, given that the applicable law is the international law of armed conflict.
I say arguably because the counterpoint (made above in the comments) is that a government that can privilege an arbitrary group can privilege any arbitrary group, and laws (in the US at least) are very, very difficult to repeal.
Under such legacy laws, traditional districts remain the sole proprietor, able to make fairly arbitrary decisions about who else might benefit from these public goods.
In a series of questions about the state's dismissal laws, and whether they serve a useful purpose, Seymour agreed that they do, saying they help «protect teachers from arbitrary decisions that might be made by a principal or district for reasons not related to their teaching competence.»
Essentially, this ruling now makes breed specific legislation in Ohio for anything beyond «purebred» American Pit Bull Terriers and American Staffordshire Terriers very problematic — meaning that they would have to go through all due processes and puts more pressure on cities with laws pertaining to mixed breeds and other breeds, like cane corsos, that declaring these types of dogs dangerous without due process is «unreasonable and arbitrary.»
In Oregon we helped pass a landmark dangerous dog law and in Monroe County, Florida, we worked with residents and local government to replace an unenforceable $ 500 intact animal fee with a $ 35 fee, removed arbitrary restrictions on animal limits, and made other changes that vastly increase chances for compliance and cultivate goodwill and cooperation between citizens, lawmakers and animal control officials.
For instance, sometimes scientists are expected to make reports report based upon the «balance of the evidence» or regulatory agencies are expected by law to take preventative action as long as the scientific reasons for taking preventative action are not «arbitrary and capricious.»
Stare decisis's most prominent cost is binding judges to interpretations of law that they find unpersuasive, raising the fundamental question of when and why such a restraint on judges» decision - making autonomy is justified.30 In an ideal world, stare decisis would insulate valid principles of law from arbitrary and unprincipled revision without entrenching «bad» precedent against further review.31 In reality, stare decisis hinders defection from both appealing and unappealing precedent.
«law is completely arbitrary, irrational, nonsensical, whimsical, that that's no basis for making any reasonable guess as to anything that will happen based on anything that happened before, not even based on what the judge had for breakfast, not even based on the assumption you've bribed the judge with enough money that the fix will last.»
To avoid an arbitrary decision made by the court, you would be wise to learn more about how child custody decisions are made and the laws in your particular state.