Sentences with phrase «preserve liberty»

At a bail hearing, a criminal lawyer's job is to preserve liberty and the presumption of innocence means that, by definition, bail preserves the liberty of an innocent person.

If Christians truly have any intentions of helping to preserve liberty for their children and grandchildren, they must put rhetoric, tradition, friendship, and personal feelings aside and take action.

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.

The free press is a cornerstone of democratic culture, providing a public mechanism to call power to account and preserve liberty of thought.

These rights are what has preserved our liberty and made this the greatest country on earth.

This prevented medieval society from becoming totalitarian along the Chinese model, and (as A.D. Lindsay put it in The Modern Democratic State) «preserved liberty -LSB-...] by maintaining in society an organization which could stand up against the state.»

More importantly, all politicians and officials should scrutinise legislation lest it impinge on the ability of our elected representatives to challenge government and ask the questions necessary to preserve our liberties.

But the HRA has, nonetheless, had an important impact on the political discourse in our country — it has acted as a totemic reminder of the need to strike a balance between liberty and security, and to preserve the liberties that grew up naturally as a result of our common law.

«The use of intercept in evidence characterises a central dilemma we face as a free society - that of preserving our liberties and the rule of law, while at the same time keeping our nation safe and secure,» the prime minister said in a statement to the House of Commons.

Alone among the world's nations, Lincoln believed, the United States had succeeded in preserving liberty and democracy.

And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance?

In the light of recent revelations around the National Security Agency PRISM program, a panel of journalists, civil libertarians and human rights experts will present the long history of domestic spying by government agencies, private sector cooperation, and the legal, ethical and business challenges of defending and preserving liberty and constitutionality in cyberspace.

Not exact matches

It is about being proud that you belong to a country where people will fight to preserve our precious liberties, will fight to defend the downtrodden, will give everybody a fair chance to pursue happiness, as they define it.

«Does the American Conservative Union really think the liberties and values they seek to preserve can be maintained when they partner with individuals and organizations that are undermining the understanding that our liberties come from God?

We need a definition of constitutional religious liberty that preserves the protection of separation without stifling religious choice.

The Catholic Church was well within its rights to conduct its campaign on religious liberty, but its «Preserve Religious Freedom» yard signs were clearly designed to be placed alongside partisan candidate signs.

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

The fact that it is at all possible to injure the natural is adequately explained by the relative liberty of the preserved life.

The new law ensures health care access to women but also preserves religious liberties in important ways.

If you were theologically literate, you would recognize that the Bible commands the duty to preserve human life and civil liberty.

Yet in principle, there has been a clearer discernment of the need to preserve civil liberties than has been found in most of the structures of society.

j) Communism must be curbed and civil liberties preserved.

The political and economic system created by the United States and its allies after World War II — a system built around common defense measures and free trade — rescued Europe from the self - inflicted catastrophe of 1914 - 1945, prevented nuclear war, preserved the peace until the collapse of the Soviet empire, and allowed once - captive nations to reclaim their liberties.

Barton cites approvingly John Jay's claim that Americans should «select and prefer Christians for their rulers,» and views George Washington's survival at the Battle of the Monongahela as evidence that God was preserving Washington for his later role in the Revolution, which Barton interprets as God's struggle between liberty and tyranny.

Alexis de Tocqueville recognized that liberty is preserved under democratic conditions by democratic and aristocratic means alike.

Mahoney's analysis shows Solzhenitsyn to be a Burkean «style admirer of constitutional mon archy that gradually evolves toward ordered liberty while preserving his nation's distinctive traditions.

The Roman polity is itself a matter of faith and therefore religious liberty includes the liberty to preserve that type of polity.

First he examines whether the emergency abrogation of rights and liberties tends to preserve or endanger democracy; he concludes that limited abrogations, for the duration of an emergency, can serve to preserve while not posing a lasting danger.

For a large segment of the American population, keeping religion «invisible» in many sectors of the public arena is the key to preserving «[religious] liberty and [constitutional] justice for all.»

For almost 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

The ACLU works tirelessly in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the Constitution's promise of liberty for everyone in our country.

Other that life itself, the greatest gift any of us have ever received is to have been born an American, and it is up to us to ensure that this nation we love, these freedoms we cherish, these liberties we enjoy are preserved for future generations.

And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

It was much more that the Americans were trying to preserve their traditional English liberties, which the British government was taking away from them.

In the pre-Leviathan state of nature, the right of nature is the norm, whereby man has unrestricted liberty to act in whatever way that would preserve his survival.

«I think Amos Goodman will be part of the next generation of leaders to preserve and protect our civil liberties for years to come.»

Alternatively, the ex NSA prays for an order staying further proceedings in the charge until he has exhausted the remedies available to him in law for the enforcement of his right to liberty as preserved by the bail order granted him.

We agree that we will approach forthcoming legislation in the area of criminal justice on a case by case basis, with a view to maximising our country's security, protecting Britain's civil liberties and preserving the integrity of our criminal justice system.

Finally, there's a treat for smaller tykes on Netflix: The Little Prince, American animator Mark Osborne's achingly gentle, adoringly rendered stop - motion interpretation of the Antoine de Saint - Exupery classic, which takes some resourceful liberties with the narrative while faithfully preserving its spirit of ingenuous intellectual inquiry.

I would say in order to preserve civil liberties in Montenegro, some Muslim schools, some of which are institutions of fascism that teach innocent kids 5 +6 year old (proved with facts brainwashing) that Jews are pigs and how to punish the infidels and non-Muslims, don't allow such schools.

I was working with juniors in my AP language course on a unit about argumentation where we considered the following central question: should the U.S. use «enhanced interrogation techniques» as a means of preserving individual liberties?

Moreover, they united in different ethnic communities, which let them not just to stay alive in clauses unusual for them, but also to vigorously protect their liberties, counting the right to preserve the culture, traditions and customs that existed in their homeland.

For almost 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.

The ACLU works tirelessly in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the Constitution's promise of liberty for everyone in our country.

The site tries not only to preserve stories of internment and earlier relocations but to remind future generations of the fragility of American civil liberties.

He saw democracy and Constitutional rule as the only way to preserve personal liberty, encourage prosperity and initiative and «afford the best means possible to elevate our race» — by which he meant, the human race.

«ACLU works to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.»

In the middle: CONSTITUTIONAL MODERATES: True liberalism (the original «radical») is exemplified by Thomas Jefferson's design, Individual liberty protected by a «limited government» of enumerated powers, protecting and preserving nearly all other «powers» in «the People» (individuals) and their «local» governments.

Anonymous Coward (313), I might strongly disagree with the specifics of your solution, but if it is put in place by a duly elected congress in a republic government that understands its # 1 priority is preserving individual liberty, as I assume from your post, then I would succumb.

It describes its goal as to «raise awareness of the costs and implications of policies based on global warming alarmism by conducting a multi-faceted campaign to peel away grassroots political support for carbon restrictions, while simultaneously promoting market - based policies that preserve individual liberty, economic opportunity, and environmental quality.»