Sentences with phrase «on liberty of»

The controversy between Grotius and Selden on the liberty of the sea is known to every law student.

As I have explained earlier habeas corpus is intended to be an expeditious process to determine whether a restriction on liberty of a person is legal at a given point in time.

Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman said: «It does not matter how fancy the design of ID cards is, they remain a grotesque intrusion on the liberty of the British people.

Some have expressed doubts about legislation on the grounds that it would encroach on the liberty of an individual to do as they please in a private car.

My faith has absolutely nothing to do with my stance on gun control (I don't support infringing on the liberties of law abiding citizens just because some people are scared of guns).

It's discriminatory and infringing on the liberties of those citizens around you.

Ministers» plans to withdraw the UK from the European court of human rights (ECHR) are encouraging the government of Ukraine to trample on the liberties of its people, the shadow justice minister has claimed.

Not exact matches

When you're one of the richest people on the planet, you have some liberty to set your own style.

While tech companies often lobby Washington on privacy issues, the major firms have been hesitant to enter a fray over a controversial portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), industry lobbyists, congressional aides and civil liberties advocates said.

The best part of this sometimes eerie subculture is its emphasis on personal liberties and how it fosters safe digital practices.

After all, for years we've been subjected to a relentless assault on our civil liberties, with the War Party running roughshod over what weak dissents have surfaced - and now, finally, a clear voice of reason has emerged, to answer their war cries with a resounding «No!»

Cook wrote that the government should drop the legal request and instead «form a commission or other panel of experts on intelligence, technology, and civil liberties, to discuss the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy, and personal freedom.»

Paul's 13 - hour stand on civil liberties also solidified his standing among the more purist fans of his father, Ron Paul, who have long been skeptical of the younger Paul's dedication to the Movement.

Every year, the firm's Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.

The increasing role played by non-elected technocrats, increased voter abstention and curbs on civil liberties are among the main symptoms of this global malaise, the EIU said, noting that almost half of the 167 countries covered by its index registered a decline in overall scores between 2006 and 2016.

Although Paul's filibuster was technically against Brennan's nomination, his remarks focused primarily on civil liberties issues, offering a scathing critique of the Obama's administration's use of unmanned drones, and refusal to rule out military strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.

According to Abdo of the ACLU, Apple has a claim based on the Fifth Amendment too: it could argue that the process would deprive it of liberty without due process of law.

«The internet is the salvation for those of us who believe in liberty because it is an alternative way of getting around the system not only in the spreading of our ideas in this instance but in in terms of getting around the monetary system on the whole if they do permit crypto - currencies and other forms of transactions.

In general, economists believe in the power of free markets and individual liberty, and, as such, are opposed to outlawing goods and services unless such a policy is justified based on costs to outside parties (i.e. negative externalities).

(Reuters)- A Muslim civil liberties group said on Wednesday it wants a review of the death of a Chechen immigrant linked to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida.

Prior to joining Calvert in 2005, Ms. Lasdon served as Deputy Director of Research for People for the American Way Foundation, where she published research on civil rights and civil liberties issues.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit focused on digital liberties, has warned policymakers of the dangers of going too far in their efforts to counter foreign influence in US elections.

«When we first boarded the ship, the Norwegian captain, a very nice guy, he went to me and said «Mr. Bezos, I've taken the liberty, because your mother's on board — we've never had a woman on board before — of removing all the pornography from the common areas.

Tatiana Moroz was on the always fun, informative, and very popular Tom Woods Show to discuss a wide variety of topics, including how she uses cryptocurrency to support her work; being an independent musician in the Internet age; creeps in the liberty movement (shocking, right?)

The person who eats 400 pounds of animal meat every year is treading on the environment for others, and so a meat tax could be implemented as a matter of protecting personal liberty.

In addition to making policy recommendations on administration policies affecting faith - based and community programs, the newly - formed office will also inform the administration of «any failures of the executive branch to comply with religious liberty protections under law.»

When Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo on marijuana to federal prosectors Thursday, reiterating their leeway to prosecute federal marijuana laws as they see fit, regardless of whether the plant is legal under state and local law, he likely spurred future infringements on liberty, struck a blow against federalism, and defied public opinion.

As I took the liberty of mentioning on his site (assuming it survives moderation).

In «A Tale of Two Popes» and «Papal Eco-Hysteria», we have contrasted Francis and John Paul II and quoted from the latter's seminal encyclical «Centesimus Annus», which probably contains the most clear - headed thinking on human liberty and economics that has ever emerged from the Vatican.

School Sucks is one of the longest running liberty - minded podcasts on the web, and the only one completely devoted to the issue of education (versus public school and college).

Emancipation might have been delayed for decades if a minority of diehard idealists had not made such a fuss insisting on a philosophically consistent application of the ideals of liberty and equality under the law.

It's quite hard to strike the right balance in our distant appreciation of the state, but Locke would likely suggest that it's a sign of poor breeding and inadequate education to complain too vociferously about the constraints on ourselves and others necessary to preserve our liberty.

I'm currently laying the groundwork for a book on American liberty, in which I argue there are five fundamental conceptions of it, one of which is the «economic individualist» liberty....

What a Christian buys is servitude in this life, at the cost of his liberty (and often property), to people who claim to be authorized agents of God, on hope of reward that can not be verified until they are dead.

In place of traditional American liberty based on the principles of limited government, Obamacarians are erecting a bureaucratic state, complete with centralized control, cronyism, ideological impositions, benefits to favored constituencies, ever increasing dependencies, spiced with an anti religion agenda that would force religious non profits and charities to choose between their service missions and following the precepts of their faith (through the Free Birth Control / Sterilization / Abortifacient Rule for now, more later).

Amid the flurry of essays on religious liberty occasioned by the Supreme Court's hearing arguments in the Hobby Lobby case, these two sentences from Rick Warren's otherwise excellent op - ed in the Washington Post stood out to me:

I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»

Note that her core beliefs on liberty, tolerance, and so forth do not seem to have undergone a conversion - just her belief in the existence of a deity.

In that respect, Matt struck a modest blow on behalf of religious liberty and of reasonable public discourse.

«Having written two lengthy books on poverty in Victorian England,» Prof. Himmelfarb notes, «I am painfully aware of the difficulties and inequalities in Victorian life... class distinctions, social prejudices, abuses of authority, constraints on personal liberty, restrictions and hindrances of all sorts.

Metaxas explains that the US is not bound by ethnic identity or geography, but by a radical idea based on liberty and freedom for all, and that Americans must reconnect with this idea or risk losing the foundation of what made the US exceptional in the first place.

Bold and convincing, Adams has reminded me of the grand ideals that this nation was founded on — liberty, justice, and human flourishing.

Perhaps the best part of Secretary Clinton's speech was when she took on arguments against religious liberty made by authoritarians in places like Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, and China.

If the courts are to be taken seriously on questions of religious liberty, they can not whitewash theological prejudice and the resulting discrimination.

Metaxas fervently believes that America is on the edge of losing that ability to govern itself unless it returns to the common values of freedom and liberty on which the republic was founded.

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

* My point, again, as I understand it in terms of our 1st amendment, and freedom of speech, was to (build in) a «wall» of separation of church and government... (because) of «Christianity,» since you are talking about our country, so as not to have - anyone's freedom of speech and their civil liberties trampled on.

At the very least, our country was founded on the concept of God given rights: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The boundaries of religious liberty are shrinking or being challenged on many fronts.

As a matter of principle, the Chinese leadership is betting on the possibility of sustaining economic liberty without political liberties.