Sentences with phrase «right of the state»

The first is the alleged legal rights of states to suspend the enforcement of any law a....

WASHINGTON — The Libertarian Party supports measures taken by Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin to curtail collective bargaining rights of state unions in his bid to cut the state budget deficit.

In a whirlwind tour of American history and political theory, Wills finds at least some of his constellation of antigovernment values at work in the theory of nullifiers from John Taylor of Caroline, Thomas Jefferson (of the Kentucky Resolutions) and John C. Calhoun, who argued for the constitutional right of states to reject federal law, to contemporary «academic nullifiers» such as law professor Akhil Amar, who has offered a limited defense of jury nullification.

Christians do not have the last word in the moral and ethical right of the state to engage in premeditated murder.

Why don't they just strike that portion altogether and say the opposite, that what speech is to be allowed and not is the sole right of the State to determine at its discretion?

Amendment 2, the Nebraska Hunting and Fishing Amendment, appeared on the general election ballot to address hunting and fishing rights of state residents.

Since the Madison protests began last month, I've contended that Gov. Scott Walker's push to eliminate collective bargaining rights of state workers has not been the most troubling development of his young administration.

So, if a body that calls itself Niger Delta Avengers starts blowing up oil installations; and causing innocent citizens needless pains, sabotaging gas - powered electricity supply nationwide, it is infringing on the legitimate right of the state to care for other lawful citizens, who have committed no crime.

Additionally, the «generic mandate of cost recovery improperly ignores the well - established rights of states and wholesale customers to challenge the prudence of particular utility costs.»

CETA includes a specific right of the state to regulate and aims to incorporate precise language with respect to investment protection standards.

Here, the assessment was almost doubled (from $ 22m to $ 41m), an outcome greeted no doubt with consternation by the taxpayer, who may also have legitimately observed that in the common law tradition, the appeal rights of state bodies are often more limited than those of the individuals subject to their authority.

Our generation has evolved in the matter of homosexual relations, accepting that way of life and the right of the State to endorse it through civil partnerships.

But the radical insularity once embraced by the concept of «states» rights» is now seen in another form: the right of a state to abolish even those minimum standards in favor of human life that federal constitutional law still recognizes as necessary to the common good.

But this does not negate the right of the state.

I know of no official statement from popes or bishops, whether in the past or in the present, that denies the right of the State to execute offenders at least in certain extreme cases.

Catholic authorities justify the right of the State to inflict capital punishment on the ground that the State does not act on its own authority but as the agent of God, who is supreme lord of life and death.

In the New Testament the right of the State to put criminals to death seems to be taken for granted.

I do not deny the right of the states to create this type of legislation; better there than through federal law or mandate.

Christians must unequivocally affirm the right of the state of Israel to exist and prosper.

Conflicts arise between individual freedom of choice and the right of the state to protect and promote the welfare of all its citizens.

But within any society that seeks to be just and good, a tension will inevitably arise between individual freedom and the right of the state to limit freedom for moral and social reasons.

She had then emphasized the superior position of legislatures over courts to make such factual medical judgments, argued for the right of states to regulate abortion despite the views of medical organizations on «the physical safety of a particular procedure,» and complained of «an unprecedented canon of construction under which in cases involving abortion a permissible [constitutional] reading of a statute is to be avoided at all costs.»

What I brought away from this collection of essays is the humbling realization that Christians hardly have the last word in terms of complex moral reasoning and that Christians hardly agree, even on religious principles, about something so radically central as the right of the state to engage in premeditated murder.

Yet let us remind ourselves that for now, Section 2 of DOMA is intact, preserving the right of states not to recognize same - sex marriages contracted in other jurisdictions.

May we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the states and by distributing equally the benefits and burdens of the Union.»

And the right of states to control, by their own political processes, what marriage means under their own laws is still intact too.

It is important to emphasize the rights of the state in its own sphere, the freedom of the Church from state control, and tl1e influence of Catholic citizens upon the state.

People may argue about capital punishment, people may argue about which list of sins should be used, but nobody argues about the right of the state to stop «heretics.»

This tension between the rights of the individual and the rights of the state are written into the very texture of the UN Charter of 1945.

Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced he and his Justice Department will no longer respect the rights of these states or patients.»

8) Civil Liberties Which should take priority under the law: the civil liberties of the individual, or the right of the state to maintain its own security?

«This agreement will continue to protect the rights of our state's workforce while maintaining the fiscal responsibility our taxpayers deserve,» Cuomo said.

«After negotiating in good faith, we have reached an agreement with PEF that protects the rights of our state's workforce and New York taxpayers,» Gov. Cuomo said.

This agreement will continue to protect the rights of our state's workforce while maintaining the fiscal responsibility our taxpayers deserve.

In the United States, the federal Bill of Rights and the federal 14th Amendment recognize constitutionally protected Due Process rights which, if enforced, are a failsafe in favor of the individual and his «life, liberty, or property» (see 5th amendment) as against the rights of State and Federal governments.

«He's even far to the right of state legislators,» Kauffmann said of Astorino.

«The bill, written by a man who claims to respect the rights of states to guide their own fate, wants to use the long arm of federal law to prohibit states like New York from taking any and all sensible steps to limit access to certain firearms,» the editorial states.

The 10th Amendment basically says any power or right not specifically granted to the Federal Government by the Constitution is either a power or right of the state or the individual.

But in an interview with The Guardian, which has revealed details of the activities of British eavesdropping agency GCHQ based on documents disclosed by US intelligence whistleblower Mr Snowden, Lord Ashdown defended the right of the state to intercept communications.

However, it did not deny the right of the state to oversee the education of its citizens, leaving open the question as to just how much regulation could be imposed on private schools — or, later, on homeschoolers.

NCLB could, through these recommendations, give the nation standards both achievable and worth achieving, while preserving the rights of the states to determine what «national» standards should be.

A group representing Hispanic parents filed suit in federal district court in Boston last week, charging Massachusetts officials with failure to comply with federal laws protecting the rights of the state's 14,000 Hispanic students of limited English proficiency.

In our minds, that meant we had to underscore the right of states to say, «no thanks» to the deal and go their own way without federal accountability rules or the money that goes with it.

The Louisiana Supreme Court last week upheld the right of the state legislature to require schools to teach the theory of «creation science» along with «evolution science.»

Washington — The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a case challenging the right of states to direct the way that counties allocate more than $ 100 million annually in federal payments in lieu of property taxes for schooling and other services.

Colby says the main reason for copyrighting the standards was to protect the rights of the states who developed them.