Sentences with phrase «right as a matter of conscience»

Robert P. George, a professor at Princeton University and the past chairman of the conservative National Organization for Marriage, and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, co-founder of Zaytuna College, a Muslim school, wrote the letter to urge hotels «to do what is right as a matter of conscience.»

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On the other hand, as far as lies in your power, you are to protect and support the free exercise of religion of the country, and the undisturbed enjoyment of the rights of conscience in religious matters, with your utmost influence and authority.

Now that retail approach is being applied to another urgent matter, as Cardinal Collins works one - by - one with members of the Ontario Provincial Parliament to ensure that the conscience rights of Catholic health care providers are not compromised by Canada's recent embrace of euthanasia.

In light of this brief summary, and paraphrasing Justice Fish's point from Krieger, one could perhaps say that jurors have the responsibility as a matter of right to assess evidence and apply the law as set out by the trial judge, but also enjoy the power to refuse to apply the law «when their consciences permit of no other course».

Carrying more legal weight as a constitutional document than its predecessor, the Charter provides the guaranteed protection of important rights such as freedom of conscience, religion, expression, and association; the democratic right to vote; mobility rights to enter and leave Canada as well as reside anywhere within Canada; legal rights in criminal matters; equality rights against discrimination; and language rights.

As Lord Chief Justice Mansfield put it in 1784: «It is the duty of the judge, in all cases of general justice, to tell the jury how to do right, though they have it in their power to do wrong, which is a matter entirely between God and their own consciences.»