Sentences with phrase «powers of the state»

He points out that British law is rooted in the protection of individual rights from the power of the state, while most law in continental Europe is derived from the Roman tradition of absolute state power.

First, the victim's effort to receive compensation is backed by the power of the state.

Historically, protection against the power of the state is, after all, an important liberal - democratic principle.

Richard Nixon deployed the powers of the state against real and perceived political enemies.

Guilds successfully barred competition when the power of the state was behind them.

You can't mention your god in schools because christians in particular have a very, very nasty habit of not just mentioning it, but of trying to ram it forcibly down the throats of the unwilling, and giving them the power of the state and an innocent audience of children to practice this forced indoctrination on has never worked out well in the past.

There, the Vatican played a major role in defeating the plans of the Clinton Administration and its allies to increase the coercive power of the state in family planning and sex education throughout the world.

Such activities allowed «the audience to participate, however marginally, in imperial grandeur», in buildings designed to «awe the viewer with the power of the state and its august ruler, but simultaneously to allow him [sic] his «moment of glory»: a share in the pride and prestige of imperial achievement».

These goon squads often work closely with the military power of the state.

The Jewish scholar Joseph Klausner, for example, holds that the Pharisees and Sadducees were justified in their attacks on Jesus because he imperiled Jewish culture at its foundations, and that by ignoring everything that belongs to wholesome social life he undercut the work of centuries.2 Others within the Christian tradition have felt considerable uneasiness lest the words of Jesus about nonresistance imperil the civil power of the State, or his words about having no anxiety for food or drink or other material possessions curtail an economic motivation essential to society.

His view of the relations between the powers of the State and the religious beliefs of the citizens was the forerunner of the American ideal of the separation of Church and State; hence his great importance.

They urge that a full public consultation into the proposals later this year «puts the rights of parents ahead of the power of the state».

If you want to be totally in control, you can not allow anything else to exist that challenges the power of the state.

For «the usurpation of the authority of God in society by the power of the state is essentially the transfer of the divine Life - giving environment to the creature.»

For every clarification of negative rights brings with it an increase in the scope and power of the state to secure and enforce them.

Witte writes, «Marriage required the coercive power of the state to preserve its integrity.

If I am to have a right to free speech, for example, then I must be empowered to speak and be heard, which means using the power of the state to give me the resources I need and to suppress anything that might disempower me.

Ross Douthat and Yuval Levin argue that Obama levels the «little platoons» of civil society in favor of expanding the power of the state.

Yet his vision for the church compels him to help others with specifically ecclesial gifts to raise up patches of nonviolent resistance to the war - making power of the state and to the tendency of churches to bless that power.

We can talk about the «power of God to transform lives,» but we are no longer talking about the political power of the state, which by definition refers to instituted social authority which enables the state to force compliance upon its subjects regardless of their volitional relationship to the state's demands.

On the most immediate, practical level, these men saw the necessity of protecting the free conscience from its own tyrannical tendencies, which protection they achieved by separating the power of religious establishments from the power of the state.

He noted particularly «those superb chapters in the second part of the Summa Theologiae on paternal or domestic government, the lawful power of the State or the nation, natural and international law, peace and war, justice and property, laws and the obedience they command, the duty of helping individual citizens in their need and cooperating with all to secure the prosperity of the State, both in the natural and the supernatural order.»

Thus, insofar as the power of the state is associated with involuntarism and the act of love with voluntarism, we must conclude that the state can not love any more than love can be forced.

Some of the bloodiest and cruelest eras in history have been when Christianity gained the power of the state and became the official religion of the government.

For in so doing, it would act as a totalitarian state which recognizes no limits to the power of the state or to the citizen's obligations toward the state.

Hence when the countervailing power of the state in the economy is removed, the poor countries are rendered defenseless against the powerful TNCs which take up most sectors of the economy.

Collectivism is the power of the state, period.

Roe became so quickly institutionalized because it reflects a philosophy held by many in our society (whether «liberal» or «conservative») that the greatest right is the right to privacy and that the power of the state must regard itself as a means thereto.

This gave them the power of state to rule and govern all the king's subjects residing within the limits of the colony which they were to establish.

His arrest and trial were to mark the beginning of yet another conflict for Christians with the power of the State.

Ten years earlier, in Bowers v. Hardwick, the Court had upheld the power of a state to make sodomy a crime; but now, as Justice Scalia pointed out, the Court was willing to strike down a law merely for «disfavoring homosexual conduct.»

The power of state militias might be somewhat enlarged as well as that of local police.

You have to consider local customs, local prejudices and last but by no means least the power of the state.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent legislation, executive policy, and judicial expansion mobilized the power of the state to effectively crush racist practices, especially in the South.

Christians have the best of reasons to endorse religious freedom: Faith in and service to God can not be coerced and, therefore, can not be taught by the power of the state.

She maintained a deep suspicion of the overweening power of the state.

The coercive power of the state has forced the secularization of charitable work, leading to such tragedies as the closing of religious charities that refuse to secularize their ministries.

Or will it gladly allow the power of the state to do the work of the Holy Spirit?

Although it does not say so directly, Vatican II's Decree on Religious Freedom implies that the Church should not have recourse to the coercive power of the state to enforce her theological principles.

But the significance of such a law is not only that it puts the coercive power of the state against the unjust discriminator, but that it puts the moral power of the state against it also, T. V. Smith's statement that laws «represent the maximum of private conscience which can at any time become social fact.»

Religious pronouncements had no effect without the temporal power of the state.

And there is nothing controversial in the documents commitment to freedom and democracy throughout the world, to peaceful cooperation in international relations, and to «the nonnegotiable demands of human dignity; the rule of law; limits on the absolute power of the state; free speech; freedom of worship; equal justice; respect for women; religious and ethnic tolerance; and respect for private property.»

Coercion has to be politically achieved and administered by the power of the state.

The increased differentiation of institutions and their autonomy from religion, the expansion of the power of the state, the higher rates of participation by both men and women in the wage economy, the increased delegation of family functions like education, leisure and food preparation to the market and the state — all these trends weaken family functions.

In order to convince the confused and alienated masses, we must be able to demonstrate that Catholic social thought treads the middle path between theocracy — the ambition of strict Islamist ideology — where the spiritual authorities simply subsume the powers of the State, and the atheist secularist agenda, which eventually leads to the State assuming God - like powers, yet without the compassion and respect for human freedom that is characteristic of the true God of Love.

In place of the close control of life by the state, and of commerce by the state and by huge chartered companies, came individual enterprise, the curtailment of the powers of monarchs, the establishment of republics, the growth of democratic institutions, and the reduction of the power of the state to as low a point as possible.

Yet the eradication of such a family results in increasing the power of the state — the entity that Russell considers to be even more morally questionable than the old sex morality.

The possibility of imposing law by force is based upon the superior power of the State....

Augustine is also willing to use the power of the state to bring heretics and schismatics into line.

The local associations appeared to exert the greatest power and threat to congregational autonomy, so the Baptists gradually nullified the power of these groups, and thereby eliminated the most effective instrument for balancing the powers of the state and national conventions in their relations with the congregations.