Sentences with phrase «personal liberties»

(ii) Regulations should be in strict accord with the statute conferring of power, particularly concerning personal liberties;

As for the outcome at the Supreme Court of Canada, we admit that we like the Supremes in that their decisions for the most part tend to back personal liberties over state intrusion and from our perspective all of the judges seem very balanced, decent and fair.

Since then the legislature has done their best to try and erode all of the personal liberties given us by the wise voters in 2000.

An infringement on innovators» personal liberties or a legitimate way for innovative companies to protect their intellectual property rights?

Whether you believe that non-compete agreements are an infringement on innovators» personal liberties or a legitimate way for innovative companies to protect their intellectual property rights, you'll want to hear what Attorney Michael L. Rosen, a Partner at the firm of Foley Hoag LLP says about this contentious issue.

Finally, it is always interesting to me how the many children of the 1960's, who used to argue for personal liberties and who now make up so much of the global warming movement, put so little value on the loss of freedoms.

What shall I say when they ask me why I allowed personal liberties to slip away?

Skeptics, write Hoffman, think concern over global warming just a ruse to curtail personal liberties — by increasing the power of government to interfere in the market.

The exhibition also raises a more crucial question: how to defend human rights and provide the ground for respect and dignity when concepts of personal liberties are determined by a complex legacy as well as by contemporary forms of social conditioning?

We did that to ourselves with the assault on personal liberties called the Patriot Act, and our waging of war in the Middle East on false pretenses.

The «McCarthy hearings» were not only pivotal in altering our perspectives about government interference in personal liberties, they also made for good television.

However, we believe it is important to consider ways in which individual genotyping could be used (or mandated) and how its use could affect personal liberties.

In saying this, Aristotle has been a big influence on state - builders ever since, giving them the excuse to trim some personal liberties in order to create laws and institutions that will make their citizens healthier, wealthier and wiser.

Decentralization of power enables greater personal liberties in society.

The overthrow of the capitalist society by the proletariat involves the destruction of the personal liberties that were enjoyed by the bourgeoisie.

I would encourage anyone in this country to speak out if you feel as though your personal liberties are at risk, whether its intentional or not.

This guy wants to give more of his money to charity that actually helps people then to government that wastes half our money and takes away our personal liberties.

Similarly, I have growing concerns about the steady expansiveness of the security state and the corresponding erosion of personal liberties.

Justice involves the promotion of economic equity, political participation, and personal liberties among and between humans.

He has to undermine and malign all of these to surrender our personal liberties and National Sovereignty to the Global Elite.

America is based on the personal liberties that are central to Locke's natural rights philosophy.

But just as Green insinuated, the Trump administration has enacted, or has hinted at enacting, policies that rankle Americans of all political stripes, precisely because they could be used to encroach upon personal liberties.

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

«It all boils down to personal liberties and personal responsibility.»

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.

«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.

The fundamental principle that this country was founded on is personal liberty, period.

LaBella, Yes, the FF were very much in favor of personal liberty.

And the FF were big on personal liberty.

It's infringes on personal liberty.

It was founded on the principle of personal liberty, which is in stark opposition to christian doctrine.

Between the failed dream of communism and the rising dream of peace, plenty and personal liberty lies a world reeling dangerously between false idols and social disintegration.

The Indian National Congress has also been formed as the political expression of the awakening of the people under the leadership of the class with western - oriented education; and linked to the politics of nationalism was also movements of social reform of family relations and caste structures on the basis of personal liberty and social equality.

Accordingly, he thought that a certain amount of personal liberty was preserved in the contract.

Negatively, as 20th - century Americans, our fixation on personal liberty evokes from us an almost knee - jerk reaction against any and all formalism.

Some concern for personal liberty and social order is present in these traditions.

Our ideas of personal liberty tend toward an antisocial individualism, and «looking out for number one,» rather than a proper relationship to one's community.

Sexual exploitation of the unborn, the new born and youth of both sexes, together with the fact that even free men and women were expected to marry (usually arranged) and bear and rear children as a duty to empire and family, meant for many Christians that the only route to personal liberty led through the «freedom» of celibacy.

And, indeed, this was done in the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that declared the Washington State law prohibiting physician - assisted suicide to be unconstitutional on the grounds that it violated the guarantee of personal liberty in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

In other words, personal liberty, located in the right to privacy, is now presented as being more important than even the protection of innocent life.

Thus some advocates of abortion on demand are now admitting that the fetus might very well be more than a part of the body of its mother but, nevertheless, because it is dependent on its mother for its life, she has the right to end that life if it interferes with the exercise of her own personal liberty.

Social progress can well be measured by the criterion of personal liberty, and the level of civilization may properly be rated according to the range and variety of choices people can make.

American has to remain, in Europe's eyes, rather repulsively nationalistic for the European experiment in postpolitical personal liberty to seem realistic.

There must be a compromise somewhere — personal liberty tempered by the social instinct, or something like that.

China also believes in forced labor and diminishing personal liberty.

Reno suggests that we are witnessing the exhaustion of a liberal phase in which the competition among the parties was mostly between two ideals of personal liberty, and that we may in time see the emergence of a new liberal phase in which the competition among the parties (also, if not instead) is between two ideals of solidarity.

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).

Yet the address also sounds a new theme by praising the moral strengths of Western democracy» especially Ronald Reagan's inspiring political leadership that enabled the West to win the Cold War, as well as the constitutional restraints on power that protect personal liberty.

To the contrary, «personal liberty is something Kingdom people are called to revolt against» (see The Myth of a Christian Nation, p. 86).

He now argues that, in establishing sovereign power, we do not have to give up our freedom, and he makes this point by way of arguing that everyone has misunderstood the true character of personal liberty.