Sentences with phrase «provides citizens the right»

Looking ahead: The Second Amendment provides citizens the right to bear arms.

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.»

Our amended and restated bylaws provide that the failure of non-U.S. citizens to register their shares on a separate stock record, which we refer to as the «foreign stock record,» would result in a suspension of their voting rights in the event that the aggregate foreign ownership of the outstanding common stock exceeds the foreign ownership restrictions imposed by federal law.

«There is only one rule of law in our country, which provides rights and security for every citizen.

You didn't come right out and make a false dichotomy between governments providing a baseline economic security for citizens and churches caring for the poor, but you come pretty close.

If by law or regulation stations could be required to provide time regularly to members of Congress, on the basis that it is the right of all citizens to have an opportunity to see and hear their chosen representatives, and if a similar requirement were to insure free access to all congressional candidates during elections — only then can the knot be severed.

The United States welcomed its immigrants, protected its workers, freed the slaves, enfranchised women, aided the needy, provided social security for the aged, ensured the civil rights of all its citizens, and made public space accessible to the handicapped: all in service to its ideals of justice.

Security is measured by a country's ability to provide its citizens freedom to life without fear, and whether its security forces respect this right and are subject to civilian oversight.

Citizens of other countries are entitled to tax funded benefits provided by their countries, so they would be in their full right to require their citizens to file tax returns Citizens of other countries are entitled to tax funded benefits provided by their countries, so they would be in their full right to require their citizens to file tax returns citizens to file tax returns as well.

If a future Tory government carries out its plan, and withdraws from the European Convention, the UK government would be embracing pariah status; the first worldwide to introduce a new bill of rights with the aim of providing fewer rights to its citizens.Without the protection of European human rights law, UK citizens will be left systematically vulnerable.

Lacking a codified constitution setting out the rights of citizens, many believed that the doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty did not provide adequate protections for individual rights from intrusive government.

The State Constitution is the bedrock for the legal protections and rights that the State provides, and conducting a convention would allow for haphazard changes which could potentially alter working conditions, access to education, and retirement security for New York State citizens.

That is why I have introduced the Defense of Property Rights Act — to protect citizens» property rights and better provide means for citizens to seek redress against an overreaching goverRights Act — to protect citizens» property rights and better provide means for citizens to seek redress against an overreaching goverrights and better provide means for citizens to seek redress against an overreaching government.

The Defense of Property Rights Act would provide an opportunity for citizens to seek compensation when government action significantly impairs the value of their property.

The candidates all said they support constitutional amendments to overturn Citizens United and to establish free or low - cost health care as a right provided by the government.

He noted that education was the bedrock of every development and was of the belief that when the children were provided with the right type of training, guidance and knowledge, they could become responsible citizens.

According to her, the role of Electoral Management Bodies (EMBs) like INEC in a democracy «is to conduct free, fair and credible elections as well as provide an enabling environment for all eligible citizens irrespective of sex, creed or tribe to exercise their constitutional rights and privileges to vote and be voted for during periodic elections.»

According to the Human Rights Campaign, she voted against the repealing of «Don't Ask, Don't Tell» legislation, opposed legislation that would grant equal tax treatment for employer - provided health coverage for domestic partners, opposed legislation to grant same - sex partners of U.S. citizens and permanent residents the same immigration benefits of married couples and opposed legislation to permit state Medicaid programs to cover low - income, HIV - positive Americans before they develop AIDS.

Earlier, while introducing members of the Governing Council, the State's Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem recalled that the CMC was established in 1999 as a unit under the Directorate of Citizens» Right of the Lagos State Ministry of Justice before it emerged as an entity by law in 2007 to provide speedy free legal services to the needy and residents of the State irrespective of tribe, race and religion.

A majority of Democrats say Buffalo is on the right track on three of the issues: improving infrastructure, ensuring opportunities for young people to be successful and providing training to police in handling citizen / police interactions.

It's designed to provide citizens with an outlet for their repressed urges, and it actually works, but only if you're lucky enough to be on the right side of the poverty line.

How we got from a state constitution requiring that the legislature «provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this state may be educated» to laws taking away the right of citizens to determine what they spend for that «free» education is a long and hard legal and policy road.

It is the responsibility of each government to provide for and respect the human rights of all persons residing within their territory; whether they are refugees, migrants, or citizens.

The truth about these crimes needs to be provided for the protection of victims of those crimes but also people and society (national and international) in general: the identity formation taking place in schools touches upon individual and collective (national) identities at the same time, the objectives of education under international human rights law demand putting a student, an individual, in the centre of the learning process to fully develop his personality and at the same time take into account the demands of democratic society in state and in the world — the world in which a person needs to manage and which needs good peaceful citizens.

Schools should reverse that trend by providing programs «that will help students better understand both their rights and responsibilities as citizens,» according to Citizenship: Goal of Education, released last week by the American Association of School Administrators.

If the Democrats were serious about providing Connecticut citizens with the right to be heard on this critical issue they would hold a hearing in the late afternoon and evening.

My commentary clearly supports a delay — far better to do it right than to provide substantially flawed statewide assessment data to millions of students, thousands of schools, hundreds of districts, and tens of millions CA citizens for two or more years.

Our goal at First Citizens is to provide you with the right tools and resources to help you meet your financial and retirement goals.

We Must Provide Protection for Those Who Can not Protect Themselves» America once A Great Nation & Leader Unto The Nations»... Transparency Is A Must As Well As A Right To It's Citizens!

Science provides us with information about how the Universe works, but it leaves to us, the citizens of countries throughout the world, to decide what are the morally right or wrong things to do.

But is it accomplishing anything other than energizing partisans (right and left) and further alienating disengaged citizens who might otherwise be allies (and providing big checks to the public - relations hot shots who made it)?

As noted above, we take «the right to sustainable development» to mean that developing countries have the right to provide their citizens with sustainable living standards, equivalent to those available to the citizens of any other country.

The right to individual liberty of action providing it does not infringe on the rights of other rights - respecting citizens.

As I listen to the manifest nonsense that has been promulgated by the likes of right - wing fanatic radio hosts and moronic ex-governors in response to the effort to bring the U.S. into alignment with other industrial countries in providing reasonable and affordable health care for all its citizens, it seems that things have only gotten worse in the years since I first wrote those words.

Just like the job - seeking EU citizen who lost his / her worker status, the Citizenship Directive itself provides for the economically inactive in his first three months of residence a «gradual system -LSB-...] which seeks to safeguard the right of residence and access to social assistance», taking into consideration «various factors characterising the individual situation of each applicant for social assistance and, in particular, the duration of the exercise of any economic activity» (paras 46 - 48).

It is difficult to argue that all, or even a large portion of services, should be granted to citizens, but a true right to a remedy is unlikely to leave room for any court appearance fees provided a litigant is ultimately entitled to a legal remedy.

Whilst the Directive only applies to the Union citizen's stay in a host Member State, the Court confirmed its previous decision that when Union citizens return to their home state, the conditions for a derived residence right of a TCN family member should not be stricter than those provided for in the Directive (see O and B, para. 50).

In another lawsuit, he challenges the constitutionality of the federal Violence Against Women Act, alleging that the law «was created by feminist organizations to provide alien wives alleging abuse a fast track to permanent residency by violating the U.S. Constitutional rights of citizen husbands.»

ISHR's New York Director Eleanor Openshaw said the move is an unprecedented attack on the crucial oversight provided by experts of countries whose citizens face severe and widespread human rights violations.

For government produced information that is law - related and needed by citizens to enforce or discover their legal rights, the added control provided by Crown copyright and prerogative is anachronous and can potentially lead to censorship.

The Naturalization Act of 1790 provided that «the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States..provided that «the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States..Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States...»

The FOIA is a law that provides U.S. citizens with the right to access information from the federal government, and it also extends to local governments.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

However, if the private security personnel are operating under authority vested to them by local ordinance or the state legislature, then their rights (and also any attendant restrictions, such as those provided to citizens under the Fourth Amendment) would apply instead.

psiphon is a human rights software project developed by the Citizen Lab that allows citizens in uncensored countries to provide unfettered access to the Net through their home computers to friends and family members who live behind firewalls of states that censor.

It also provides means by which certain aliens can become naturalized citizens with full rights of citizenship.

The solution, my report argued, was to provide specially prepared sets of legal materials in public libraries and legal clinics and other places «so citizens can determine their rights and obligations without necessarily first going to lawyers.»

Finally, it will conclude that allowing UK nationals to retain the substance of the status of EU citizenship provides an opportunity for the European Union to put its values into practice in contradistinction to an instrumental approach towards those citizens whose rights and status will depend on the interests of negotiators in the two years after Article 50 TEU is triggered.

The Bill is currently passing through the House of Lords, which may be the last opportunity for the United Kingdom to provide unilateral guarantees to EU citizens regarding their rights before the negotiation procedure beings.

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