Sentences with phrase «of essential liberties»
ALBANY — The Bill of Rights in the New York State Constitution protects a number of essential liberties.
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They embedded freedom of speech in the First Amendment as one of our essential liberties: «Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech.»
Not exact matches
But had Sony stuck to its guns and released the movie as planned, it would have made a strong statement about standing up for freedom instead of giving in to fear and threats as Ben Franklin once wrote, «Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.»
I begrudgingly acknowledge that freedom of religion is an essential component of liberty, but it must have checks & balances.
His point is that Union stands for being «followers of Jesus» and «Christian unity» and «in essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, and in all things charity.»
These, I suggest, are the essentials around which we can unite, and beyond which we must grant liberty for differing opinions about issues relating to the future of Israel, the chronology of the end times, the nature of the priesthood, the practice of the gifts of the Spirit, church governance or even (dare I say it?)
about gas lines justifying DoE, one of our founding fathers said «those who would give up essential liberty for a little temporary security deserve neither».
Religious liberty is plainly essential for the endurance of our free society and for the protection of the rights and freedoms of the many millions of Americans who dissent from the caustic Gnosticism that increasingly dominates our culture.
It describes a duty of society to retreat and give its members space to act on what they deem essential; an acknowledgment not of a human liberty or right, but of a human obligation that precedes the social obligation and so shapes it.
The recent statement of evangelical essentials also calls for «unity in primary things, with liberty in secondary things, and charity in all things.»
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.
First published in 1994, this updated version is a welcome guide to the ways in which the ACLU's constituting mission of protecting civil liberties has frequently degenerated into an ideological crusade against cultural institutions and habits essential to a genuinely free society.
Over at No Left Turns, Peter Lawler reminds us that part of the problem with an unrestrained judicial activism is precisely its championing of the ever expanding rights of the Lockean individual — the essential premise of Texas v. Lawrence is that the word «liberty» as used in the Fourteenth Amendment is an indeterminate concept meant to be expanded indefinitely by the Supreme Court.
For Aristotle, the presence of a middle class was essential to political liberty.
The basis of the decision is a claim to special enlightenment (we shall not say «revelation») about the meaning and import of liberty — special because the majority claims access to essential truths about marriage, sex and liberty heretofore unavailable to all peoples in the entire history of the world.
Thus, the Court claims, there is precedent for the view that the procreative potential once thought essential to marriage is in fact no more central to the institution than the race, precedents embodied in the Court's previous affirmation of liberty rights to contraception and sodomy in Griswold and Lawrence.
Drawing from the Islamic imperative that «God is one» and from the Qur» an's teaching about Adam and Eve, Rauf arrives at two essential principles: that all humans are equal «because we are born of one man and woman,» and that «because we are equal... we have certain inalienable liberties,» such as the freedom to accept or reject God, to think for ourselves (ijtihad) and to make individual choices without coercion.
... Morals, religious liberty, and pursuit of happiness are essential to this country!
We have spoken before of the balance between impulse and control, liberation and institutionalized liberty, as being essential to a free society.
Finally, for a world established in liberty and universal equality of opportunity, free exchange of goods, persons, and culture is essential.
That is, Mill could maintain that the pride, liberty, and dignity which distinguish the higher pleasures are not separate from pleasure or happiness, but rather are essential parts of human happiness.
Justice Harry Blackmun himself cited the Founders» intentions in his dissent in the 1990 Smith case: «I do not believe the Founders thought their dearly bought freedom from religious persecution a «luxury,» but an essential element of liberty.»
When used justly» and in the American system this means at its basis to protect the essential goods of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness at which American democracy aims» coercive force is not an evil at all but an instrument of good.
Dignity is the most important and essential of all human needs, even more critical than the need for liberty.
But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
«It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his / her life, liberty, property, and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice.
The PDP called on «all lovers of democracy especially the international community to note the fact that rule of law and respect for citizens» rights, essential ingredients of civil liberty have taken flight in Nigeria under Buhari's watch».
In this Platform he argues that the current wave of state intervention must not be permanent, and that Anglo - Saxon capitalism is essential for our prosperity and liberty.
The award will be presented at Character.org's National Forum on Character Education, Oct. 17 in Atlanta, GA. «The life of John Lewis exemplifies the civic virtues essential for sustaining and expanding the American belief in «liberty and justice for all,»» said Charles Haynes, Character.org's board chair.
There are too many liberties on display here and, like many exhibitions of this nature, the contextual information is essential in making sense of the work.
The essential renunciations of the Abstract Expressionists are transformed to embody new, expressive liberties and a new sense of individual responsibility.
Though the term «separation of powers» does not appear anywhere in the text of the United States Constitution, the concept of three separate but equal branches of government is one of the most important ways our government defends the liberties essential to our democracy.
The first event features tweeting high - school students while the second involves a debate of the resolution: Separation of powers is «essential to the preservation of liberty.»
«Though the term «separation of powers» does not appear anywhere in the text of the United States Constitution,» Bass wrote in the ABA Journal, «the concept of three separate but equal branches of government is one of the most important ways our government defends the liberties essential to our democracy.»
«They are the essential defenders of our liberties.»
James Madison, the drafter of the Seventh Amendment, would be puzzled by how we allowed this to happen, given his view that «[t] rial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as any one of the pre-existent rights of nature.»
The right to strike «is essential to realizing [Charter values of human dignity, equality, liberty, respect for the autonomy of the person and enhancement of democracy] through a collective bargaining process.»
In defining the right to marry these cases have identified essential attributes of that right based in history, tradition, and other constitutional liberties inherent in this intimate bond.
In light of the upcoming law library conference season (notably including the Canadian Association of Law Libraries conference — CALL 2011 — next week), I am taking the liberty of sharing a few reasons why I see conferences as essential to law library staff.
It is precisely here that the liberty and love and illumination of Christ is so essential.