Sentences with phrase «protect liberty of»

He argues that political violence must be treated as criminal in order to protect the liberty of the least powerful and to ensure that basic rules of justice are met, such as «open justice; a presumption of innocence; careful rules of evidence to prevent abuse; an independent system of sentencing, and much else besides».

The negative goals liberals pursue can be summarized under the heading of the avoidance of evil: to protect the liberty of individuals from «dictatorship, torture, poverty, intolerance, repression, discrimination, lawlessness,» and other affronts to human dignity.

How will Governor Romney protect the liberty of those with minority views?

They created a structure that, within limits we will have to consider, did protect the liberty of the people and did provide a space for popular initiative.

Assuming the continued advance of same - sex marriage rights, how will the President take a similar approach to protect the liberties of those who object to gay marriage on religious grounds?

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Not exact matches

What I am for is protecting, with the highest standards in our courts, the religious liberty of Hoosiers.

Most notably, Sarah Paulson, who won an award for her role in the miniseries The People vs. O.J. Simpson, used her acceptance speech to drum up more support, asking everyone who is able to donate to the ACLU «to protect the rights and liberties of people across this country.»

We are at the liberty of these companies housing our sensitive data to adequately protect this information.»

Matt Slater, chief of staff for New York State Senator Terrence Murphy, a Republican sponsor of the bill, told The New York Times, «It's monumental if we can get this done... we're trying to make sure safety and civil liberties are equally protected.»

President Donald Trump presided over a National Day of Prayer event in the White House Rose Garden for the second year, pledging at the Thursday morning gathering to protect religious liberty all across America.

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.

«We are proud of our religious heritage and as president I will protect religious liberty.»

It's equally foolish to accept it at face value and underestimate the great achievements of liberty and law that we as Americans rightly take pride in and must work to protect.

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.»

This congress and Administration have violated that definition and Oath to protect the liberties and freedoms of the American people.

If indeed choices «central to personal dignity and autonomy» are what lie at the heart of the liberty protected by due process of law, how can it be said that a terminally ill person's decision to end his or her life is any less «intimate and personal» than the decision to have an abortion?

Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.

- how you can appeal to «religious liberty» to justify denying wedding cakes to gay and lesbian couples without challenging a candidate who wants to increase surveillance of Muslim neighborhoods, create a database of Muslim citizens, and ban Muslims from visiting the U.S., which would suggest the only «religious liberty» you want to protect is your own,

It is to protect the life, liberty, and property of the individual, created in God's image, from those who would rob him or her of these things.

If understanding our case as above all a matter of protecting religious liberty rights means that social conservatives don't think or talk that way anymore, then we are in great trouble.

This means we need to see that we are defending more than religious liberty: We are defending the very idea that our government exists to protect the space in which various institutions of civil society do the work that enables Americans to thrive, and we are defending the proposition that this work involves moral formation and not just liberation from constraint.

Forcing the case for this kind of living moral alternative into the narrow confines of an argument that is just about religion and liberty makes the treasure we seek to protect seem smaller and less significant than it truly is.

The same right to religious liberty that should protect followers of Christ should also protect followers of Moses, Muhammad, Krishna and Buddha, as well as those who believe there is no god to follow in the first place.

It also prevents a majority from easily taking away the rights of minorities for it's third primary function of protecting individual liberties of American citizens, whether they belong to a majority or a minority we are to be equal under the law.

«But it is already a significant loss that he is willing to speak of LGBT as a protected class — a legal category inherent in [SOGI] laws that have caused problems for religious liberty all over the country.»

«As a family ministry concerned with the sanctity of life, marriage, and religious freedom, we are optimistic that Judge Gorsuch will continue to protect our cherished liberties, and earn the entire country's respect as a member of our nation's highest court,» said Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, in a statement.

«It protects the religious liberty rights of all Americans in very tailored ways that address problems of today,» wrote Heritage Foundation researcher Ryan Anderson, listing and defending the provisions of Trump's draft order from criticism by LGBT advocates that the order is discriminatory and overreaching.

The job of civil authority is to protect that religious liberty — to protect the right of every American to worship as they see fit, and to live out the teachings of their faith and never be compelled to violate the teachings of their faith.

But insofar as liberal freedom is atomistic and precludes the claim of others on the property that is my person, the state tasked with securing this liberty will exist to protect me from God's commandments, the demands of other persons, so - called intermediary institutions, and, ultimately, even nature itself.

First published in 1994, this updated version is a welcome guide to the ways in which the ACLU's constituting mission of protecting civil liberties has frequently degenerated into an ideological crusade against cultural institutions and habits essential to a genuinely free society.

If the liberty they protect is largely negative, largely a defense against encroachment, it is still the indispensable condition for the attainment of any fuller freedom.

The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.

If the framers of the Constitution had been more morally courageous in identifying slavery as an evil, or if the later compensatory amendment had rooted liberty in a common human nature rather than on weaker procedural grounds of equality under the law, then perhaps the expansion of protected classes and arbitrary rights would not have advanced so stridently.

This portends disaster as the vestigial remains of cultural Catholicism die out and are replaced by those who accept all of Weigel's major premises («religious liberty is good») and none of his minor ones («protecting the seal of the confessional is a part of religious liberty»).

Neither religion clause should be subordinated to the other; each protects an important aspect of religious liberty.

I have proposed one: the government must treat religious people and institutions the same way it treats comparable nonreligious people and institutions, unless special accommodation is needed to protect religious liberty from a facially neutral law that conflicts with religious obligations or forms of organization.

Massachusetts and others among the founding thirteen states, while protecting the full religious liberty of citizens under their new constitutions after Independence, maintained an established church and entrusted important moral and educational tasks to church communities with state support, direct or indirect.

Authority exists to protect and augment common beliefs and forms of life and so also the liberty of those who hold and follow them.

Never was a sense of «lets get violent on those folks» mentality present - it has nothing to do with death as a goal one way or another - it does primarily have to do with protecting the freedoms and liberties we enjoy.

It was thought that, since all power in a democracy proceeds from the people in their corporate capacity, the lawmaking bodies of government (the executive, legislature, and judiciary), being representative of the public will, would sufficiently protect these liberties.

But I believe strongly in the separation of religion and state, not because of my own beliefs in religion but because I think separation protects religion and individual liberties.

The Charitable Choice section also seeks to protect the civil liberties of the people receiving services.

In Casey v. Planned Parenthood, which enshrined the right of abortion as a specifically protected Fourteenth Amendment liberty, the majority lectured pro-lifers for continuing to contest the abortion issue.

Not only that, the federal RFRA does not protect against state laws that infringe upon religious liberty, and state religious protections are now vociferously opposed by progressive political adherents and large corporations — as Indiana discovered recently when it was threatened with economic ruin for attempting to pass an RFRA that extended to the operation of businesses.

It underscores the fact that whatever guiding principles one has; those enduring principles «should» be contributing to the respect of our national diversity and civility that protects our liberty.

Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights («Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person») has to be read in the context of Articles 5 and 9 which protect people's moral and physical integrity against interference from state and non-state actors.

Pursuant to the President's Executive Order and Executive Branch policy, and in keeping with the Attorney General's religious liberty guidance, HHS proposes this rule to enhance the awareness and enforcement of Federal health care conscience and associated antidiscrimination laws, to further conscience and religious freedom, and to protect the rights of individuals and entities to abstain from certain activities related to health care services without discrimination or retaliation

«While we won't know what the interim final rule will be until its release, we are grateful for an administration that recognizes the importance of protecting religious liberty and look forward to a rule that protects the varied and various Christian schools and missions ministries we serve from the threat of crippling fines,» GuideStone President O.S. Hawkins told the Baptist Press.