Sentences with phrase «protected by the constitution»

It's worth noting that the letter doesn't touch on Yellen's conduct of monetary policy, where its independence is protected by the Constitution.

We the people who ordain and establish this Constitution intend the rights protected by this Constitution to be the rights of natural persons.

The core of the restoration argument consists of an attack on the contention that the right of a woman to terminate her pregnancy is a personal privacy right protected by the Constitution.

Makes me think why these dumb scumbags are even protected by the constitution.

Our rights are protected by the Constitution, but our exercise of those rights is governed by our moral disciplines.

Most Americans today would agree with this idea, particularly as we enjoy the privileges of living in a nation where our basic rights are protected by the Constitution.

Sure, the idea of building a mosque near Ground Zero is protected by the constitution.

Although the power of Congress to forbid slavery in federal territories was well - established, Sandford argued that slaves were private property of the sort protected by the Constitution against deprivation without due process of law, and that therefore Congress lacked any constitutional authority to ban slavery in the territories.

For example, in a representative democracy, every vote has equal weight, no unreasonable restrictions can apply to anyone seeking to become a representative, and the freedom of its all citizens is secured by legitimized rights and liberties which are generally protected by a constitution.

The Supreme Court of Ghana is an independent institution protected by the constitution of Ghana.

@janh: The courts would also need to agree; in particular the FCC, that considers public service broadcasting protected by the constitution.

«This house will not take this recklessness and nonsense from the judiciary because we are protected by the constitution.»

La Follette, 450 U. S. 107, 124 (1981)(«A political party's choice among the various ways of determining the makeup of a State's delegation to the party's national convention is protected by the Constitution»); Cousins v. Wigoda, 419 U. S. 477, 491 (1975)(«Illinois» interest in protecting the integrity of its electoral process can not be deemed compelling in the context of the selection of delegates to the National Party Convention» (emphasis added)-RRB-.3 A political

Federal court rulings in Baltimore, Boston and Indianapolis have affirmed that recording officers in public places is protected by the Constitution.

They provide one of the more succinct definitions of civil disobedience offered to high schoolers: «The right of all Americans to express their dissent against laws in these and many other ways is protected by the Constitution.

«We consider it our responsibility to you, and to the rights protected by the Constitution, to respect the privacy of your choice of books and other reading material.

Anonymous free speech is protected by the constitution.

It's an old story, which has gotten worse recently, since a Supreme Court decision in which the Supremes declared that corporations are people, with rights protected by the Constitution.

Fortunately, we couldn't sign up — we're protected by our Constitution, which says Americans can only be tried by American courts... and the recent conviction of Geert Wilder is a fine example of why.

He suggested to Madison that a Bill of Rights should be drawn up to enumerate what would be protected by the Constitution, and the first ten Amendments became those rights.

After summarising the CJEU's decision, the judgment notes that the response of the EU Court will be «of great utility» in determining the absolute content of the fundamental right to a fair trial as protected by the Constitution.

Is the right to name your child» «Dumb Motherf * cker» protected by the Constitution, Larson asks?

McIntyre J. further held that «[i] ndividual rights protected by the Constitution do not lose that protection when exercised in common with others.

Solicitor - client privilege is a long standing principle that is the basis of our legal system and is protected by the constitution, upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada and that safeguards all communications between a potential or actual client and his or her lawyer.

Lincoln discussed the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which ruled that African slaves and their descendants were not protected by the constitution and could never be citizens by saying,

She's hired Talkeetna, Alaska, attorney Paul Bratton who has opined that Holmes» work is a parody protected by the Constitution.

Any citizen accused of criminal wrongdoing has several inalienable rights protected by our Constitution.

It is also noteworthy because the court recognized that the right to copyright is a human right protected by the Constitution of Ireland, 1937; and that the graduated response protocol was fully justified in light of the importance of copyright and the adverse effects of unauthorized online file sharing.

Though revealing classified information on the floor in either house would likely have serious consequences internally in terms of committee assignments and the member's relationship with leadership, members of Congress are protected by the Constitution's Speech and Debate Clause and can not be prosecuted for statements made on the floor of either house.

In November 2005, the Federal Court of Nigeria determined that the actions of the oil companies a gross violation of community members» fundamental human right to life (including healthy environment) and was a violation of human rights protected by the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Not exact matches

Although Thiel implies in his essay that the Gawker story about Hogan's sex tape would not have been published by any right - thinking journalistic outlet, and that the First Amendment doesn't and shouldn't protect such behavior, two higher - court judges ruled before the Hogan decision that the Gawker piece was clearly covered by the Constitution's free - speech protections.

But in a written statement issued Monday afternoon by Di Tzeitung, the newspaper said that its decision to leave women out of photos is religiously mandated and that the right to do so is protected by the U.S. Constitution.

This is simply to repeat that these alone are the rights properly protected by a democratic constitution, with which all other political decisions should be consistent.

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

And, in the Army and when I was admitted to law practice, I must have sworn to uphold, protect, and defend the Constitution — knowing that one of our founding documents talked about our being «endowed by our Creator» with certain rights.

Both images, however, see the Constitution and society exercising «wardship» by protecting believers from at least the more egregious damage these feeble - minded might do to themselves (perhaps further justification for Obamacare's sterile sex coverage — three centuries of religious imbeciles is enough!).

Indeed that, too, is a human right protected by the Indian constitution.20 However any model that undercuts the plural forms of being religiously and culturally human disrespects the right of human beings to be different.

Our Constitution reflects the same principle when it exhorts the state to «promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting as effectively as it may a social order in which justice, social, economic and political, shall inform all the institutions of national life».

The same Constitution imposes an obligation on government to secure the state and protect every citizen against infringement of their rights by others.

«Drawing on powers vested by Section 45 (1) of the Constitution, and Section 97a of the Penal Code, the governor signed an order declaring the IMN as an unlawful society in the interest of public order and to protect the rights and freedoms of all persons in Kaduna State, he said.

Generally speaking, anything that a member of Congress says during a speech or debate in Congress is protected by the U.S. Constitution from lawsuits and criminal prosecution.

In a statement signed by presidential aide Garba Shehu, President Buhari was quoted as saying he is fully conscious of his duty under the constitution to protect all Nigerians.

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.

The immunities of the Speech or Debate Clause were not written into the Constitution simply for the personal or private benefit of Members of Congress, but to protect the integrity of the legislative process by insuring the independence of individual legislators.

And so the Constitution protects us from tyranny both by protecting rights and by preventing a slide in to dictatorship, at least in theory.

Public pensions are protected by the state constitution and for the most part can not be revoked even if the retiree committed a crime in office.

«Obedience to the rule of law by all citizens but more particularly those who publicly took oath of office to protect and preserve the Constitution is a desideratum to good governance and respect for the rule of law.

«In my view, the 4 June and 31st December processes occasioned a breakdown of law and order, the negation of the rule of law and a circumscription of the fundamental human rights and freedoms of the individual which the Constitution seeks to protect and preserve by its preamble.

The Adirondack Park Forest Preserve is protected by the state constitution's «forever wild» clause, a unique and wonderful measure.

Moody thanked Negron for the endorsement, adding that as the only candidate in the attorney general's race having served as a prosecutor and judge, she would «continue to uphold the law by protecting the constitution and prosecuting criminals for a stronger, safer Florida on day one.»