Sentences with phrase «political rights of citizens»

Not exact matches

Sessions himself has said a «properly exercised» Civil Rights Division «provides tremendous benefit to American citizens» but should not be used as «a sword to assert inappropriate claims that have the effect of promoting political agendas.»

Civil Liberties — Our rights as human beings and citizens of the world are threatened by political corruption, police militarization, government intrusion and mainstream media disinformation.

«Crypto Valley was initiated by Johann Gevers after identifying Switzerland with its decentralized, citizen - controlled political system, its centuries - old culture of individual rights, innovation, and entrepreneurship, its neutrality, stability, and business - friendly environment... for building the new generation of decentralized technologies.»

As a federal court stated in a 2011 decision upholding the foreign national prohibition statute and regulation — a decision affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court: «It is fundamental to the definition of our national political community that foreign citizens do not have a constitutional right to participate in, and thus may be excluded from, activities of democratic self - government.»

Finally, a heavy reliance on courts can undermine energy to protect rights through the political process and to convince fellow citizens of the Importance of those rights.

One political position customary among Jews, and often shared also among the more observant, is that of not interfering in the choices of freedom that the state makes for its citizens, reserving only to the individual conscience the right and duty of making rigorous personals choices on arguments in which the law of the state makes room for autonomy and freedom.

We might say that the constitutional rights of citizens are those that all political participants must explicitly accept in order to have a political discourse about what all political participants must explicitly accept in order to have a political discourse — and it is this character that makes the rights formative.

Since public education is controlled through agencies of government, racial justice in education depends upon equal political rights and responsibilities for all citizens regardless of color, religion, or national origin.

Many of what are considered liberalism's signal features — particularly political arrangements such as constitutionalism, the rule of law, rights and privileges of citizens, separation of powers, the free exchange of goods and services in markets, and federalism — are to be found in medieval thought.

It was the announcement by Mukherji and D' Sousa that the Christian Community had decided to forgo special communal representation in the legislature and other communal safeguards so that there would not be political exploitation of increase of numbers through conversion that there was a spontaneous decision in the Constituent Assembly to include propagation of religion as a fundamental human right of the citizen.

The dismissal of the first indictment today sends a strong message to Planned Parenthood and their political cronies that colluding to suppress the First Amendment rights of citizen journalists will never work.

He highlighted Britain's achievements as a «pluralist democracy which places great value on freedom of speech, freedom of political affiliation and respect for the rule of law, with a strong sense of the individual's rights and duties, and of the equality of all citizens before the law and noted that there was much in common here with Catholic social teaching.

The council called on the new government to «restore constitutional order and affirm citizens» political, economic and other fundamental rights and freedoms» and to assert «the territorial integrity of Ukraine, whose independence is a gift from God and is valued by our entire nation, which is why we have no right to allow for its separation, as this would be a sin before God and future generations.»

Or again, he saw the black citizens» human rights fight making a wise use of social and political power to gain equal dignity and redress old grievances.

But the American principle of expansion remained political; the intention was almost always that new territory be incorporated into the nation and that its inhabitants take on the rights and duties of American citizens.

Almost every Christian is at the same time a citizen of a national state, and those few who are not citizens in the official sense of having explicit political rights and duties are still required to obey laws.

Nevertheless, a nation should include at least such elements as common commitment to the rule of law, generally accepted limits on political power and rhetoric, belief in constitutional governance, the rights of citizens, etc..

Democracy was superior, and one reason for that involved the right of any citizen to refuse to reveal his or her private political convictions.

Those familiar with the country believe that the answer is twofold: a rigorously negotiated constitution shaped around human rights and citizen participation in political decisions; and a Truth and Reconciliation Commission that walked the narrow boundary between exacting vengeance on the agents of the regime and granting them immunity.

It withdraws protection from the weak and vulnerable, allowing the strong to define the status and rights of the weak; it privatizes matters which, in any legitimate political order, must be public in nature; it sets innumerable roadblocks to the rectification of the problem through mutual deliberation of citizens in legislative assemblies; and it has made what used to be its most loyal citizens — religious believers — enemies of the common good whenever their convictions touch upon public things.

«The international community must press the Government of Iran to uphold this constitutional obligation, and to respect the right of its citizens to the full enjoyment of freedom of religion or belief, as outlined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which it is signatory.»

Unlike Okudzeto Ablakwa who conveys the impression in his articles that constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law mandate that I should have protected the crimes and graft I exposed simply because of membership of a political party, I take the right and correct view that the constitution enjoins every citizen to uphold and defend it by exposing any activity of any person or group of persons who abuse Article 55 on political parties for criminal purposes.

And indeed, it is right to claim that to a considerable extent the democratic rights and liberties of citizens have been subordinated to the interests of political and financial elites.

According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens

Yet thirty - six years later, many Catalan and Basque citizens and political and social actors show a deep disappointment regarding the development of this territorial model — in terms of collective rights, political recognition and self - government.

In Britain, infrastructure investment programmes are now prominent features of both the main political parties» programmes, while proposals for a universal citizen's income, a monthly payment to every citizen by right and the creation of a sovereign wealth fund to help cover the state's liabilities for vital public goods continue to gain traction.

Citizens United overturned a century of legal doctrine when it ruled that pursuant to the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, corporations and labour unions have the right to spend unlimited amounts of money through ads, commercials and other political tools to support or oppose candidates for office.

He conceded that the moderator is a citizen of Ghana and has the right to join any political party and also express his views on any national issues, but «his views should be differentiated from that of the Presby Church because not all members are towing his line».

Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka, the husband and wife authors of the new book Zoopolis: the political theory of animal rights, believe that not only should animals have basic rights but that they (or at least some of them) should be accepted as full citizens in our political communities.

The NDC is a political party and can not use its subordinate constitution to gag citizens from the exercise of their constitutional rights to speak against unconstitutional conduct and actions of a Government even if it supported it to come to power.

Since when did a Ghanaian citizen lose his Constitutional right to defend the national Constitution simply because he is a member of a political party whose constitution is subordinate to the national Constitution?»

They ought to be warned that their modus operandi will not lead to reasoned dialogue and reconciliation with me but may push me to invoke my right pursuant to Article 2 and 130 of the Constitution so that the Supreme Court may settle once and for all whether or not under Article 55 of the Constitution a political party can gag a citizen from defending, and upholding the Constitution demonstrated with a Supreme Court judgment simply because he is perceived to be a member of that political party.

It wasn't clear to most people until quite recently in these places, whether Muslim communities tended to favor left wing or right wing political coalitions at all, because the number of Muslims who could participate politically as citizens was quite small until quite recently.

However, the end of transitional controls on January 1st next year, so that those from the two most recent EU members have the same rights as citizens of the other western and east European member states, has created a heated political debate about immigration from the two countries, which is likely to run on into next year's European elections.

In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations and unions can be considered individuals as far as their political contributions are concerned and that restricting their ability to donate to candidates amounted to a violation of their First Amendment right of free speech.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision in 2010 paved the way for new forms of unlimited political spending — an opening seized upon by mega-donors on the right opposed to the Obama administration.

The outcome of this case should spur Nigerians to always insist on the rule of law, no matter the short term inconveniences, as it plays a crucial role in ensuring that political rights and civil liberties are safe and that the equality and dignity of all citizens are not at risk.»

«The oddity of a modern, let alone immigrant, nation rationing fundamental political rights to sole citizens is blatantly apparent.

Some see Right to Rise as the latest development in the post - Citizens United world of political spending, where cash - flush super PACs, which can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money, are increasingly supplanting candidates and their campaigns.

Jurisprudence concerning candidacy rights and the rights of citizens to create a political party are less clear than voting rights.

This message emphasises that not only is a «no» vote about the huge cost of AV, and the political consequences of changing our voting system, it is also about the fundamental right of every citizen to cast an equal vote.

Irrespective of being committed in the UNHCR activities and human rights promotion in general, the first post-apartheid Minister of the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) declared that the spirit, object and purport of the RDP will not be realised if non-citizens who are pouring into South Africa would be allowed access to the national resources.27 Again, this political attitude was, in 2011, reflected in the statement of the chairperson of the DHA Portfolio Committee, Ms Maggie Maunye, in which she stated that «foreign - nationals coming to South Africa are using up national resources and prevent citizens from enjoying their freedoms ’28 Even though she apologized, this statement reaffirms the spirit of government.

The standard of political and moral performance required to consider should be the following: 1) increase of solidarity among the inhabitants of the country; 2) increase in the practice of social justice by organs of government and civil society; 3) increase in the distribution of income and wealth among the population; 4) increase of measures to preserve and care for nature; 5) increase in policies for integral development of education in accordance with the highest human values; 6) advances in the realization of the collective will of the citizens; 7) improvement of political institutions; 8) success in combating corruption measured by its reduction; 9) increase in the exercise of citizenship with the effective participation of citizens in government decisions and fight for expansion of their rights; and 10) increase of contribution of public and private organizations to the political, economic, social and environmental development of the country.

Political unwillingness is, in actual fact, illustrated by the lowly insignificant number of twelve (12) Rwandan refugees, who are, at the moment, holders of permanent residence permits.19 As permanent residents, they are entitled to «all the rights, privileges, duties and obligations of a citizen, save for those rights, privileges, duties and obligations which a law or the [South African] Constitution explicitly ascribes to citizenship».20 A permanent residence permit is a vehicle to full integration.

In addition to well - accepted traits like respect for law and for the rights of others, Macedo writes expansively about «tolerance, mutual respect, and active cooperation among fellow citizens,» readiness to «think critically about public affairs and participate actively in the democratic process,» and commitment to «the supreme political authority of principles that we can publicly justify along with all our reasonable fellow citizens.»

Politics intensifies the educational challenges in education.The influences political views have on ESSA, vouchers, privatization of schools, the school to prison pipeline and educational rights of parents has life changing effects on many citizens.

That said, the fact that Connecticut's Democratic leadership, including Governor Malloy and Lt. Governor Wyman, either supported or remained silent as Mayor Finch and the «education reformers» worked to remove the fundamental right of Bridgeport's citizens to choose members of their Board of Education is a sad and disgusting reminder that for some, principles and values are a thing of the past — fallen by the wayside — in the face of political expediency.

In the books featured in this article, poets represent the struggle of enslaved peoples for freedom, the fight of citizens for equal rights, and the search for personal and political identity, all across the span of several generations, cultural groups, and geographic locales.

manipulates the political process to spin concern for animals into laws and regulations that deprive private citizens of the right to make ethical determinations about their relationships with animals

McMillian juxtaposes these sculptures with works such as Untitled (The Supreme Court Painting)(2004 - 06) that challenge the terms that government and the media use to discuss justice, democracy and the rights of citizens in their private space, especially as these political ideals are experienced by African Americans.