Sentences with phrase «rights than our citizens»

It's coming because we have a stupid President who wants every illegal to have more rights than our citizens.

Not exact matches

«I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.»

Indeed, the paragraph he refers to is obviously one of those that set out a number of separation issues other than citizens» rights, the financial settlement and the Northern Ireland border, which were discussed in phase 1.

With courts increasingly willing to nullify popular legislation and proclaim new rights, legislators are encouraged to avoid their responsibility for tackling controversial issues; interest groups are encouraged to take their cases to the courts rather than to try to persuade their fellow citizens; and citizens get the feeling that they have no say in setting the conditions under which they live, work, and raise their children.

For example, even though the liberal state has no right to require its citizens who are Christians to accept Locke's proposition that toleration and a respect for religious freedom are the marks of the correct understanding of the Gospels, it has every reason to hope that they do, and perhaps to do more than hope — to educate and persuade, if not to coerce.

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

Iraqi Christians are treated less than third (3rd) class citizens, No Rights of Freedom of speech or expression, thought, opinion etc., No Rights to Practice Religion, Hateful of Christians, when in Reality its the Christians that were there LONG before the Arabs, its a matter of facts, Iraqi Christians still speak the ARAMAIC Language, the same exact language as Jesus Christ Spoke (our GOD), the descendant of Abraham, from the Land of the Chaldean «UR».

The goal of The Gay Agenda was to force opponents of sod into a position where they would be seen as attacking the rights of so - called «gay» citizens, rather than opposing a specific deviant behavior.

The only way you can possibly make that argument work is to establish that a fetus somehow has more rights than a grown adult citizen, which is just ridiculous.

Is the Hospital (an organization)'s right to enforce what it believes to be right more valid than an individual citizen's right to freedom of religion and receipt of protections given by Federal law?

One had to be either a Roman citizen, as in the case of Paul, or else guilty of a crime against the empire rather than an infraction of a provincial or racial law over which the recognized authorities among the conquered people had the right of judgment.

Democracy simply means that the demos can choose those who rule over them, and liberalism, as its founding fathers recognized, warrants little more than the protection of citizens» rights and freedoms.

If more than two million Brits benefit from EU reciprocity rule when living on the continent, is it simply because they are «European» or because they are also EU citizens with all the rights that involves?

While the rhetoric to justify enhanced surveillance has focused on portraying terrorists as the principal enemies to fight against, we should not forget that the human rights regime was established more than 60 years ago with the main aim to keep in check the power of the state and to prevent abuses against ordinary citizens.

Such protection demands more than freedom from refoulement, but respect for human rights akin to nationals in host countries, which is difficult to demand in developing countries struggling to secure basic rights even for their own citizens.

Mike, perhaps rather than reading a couple of fringe blogs by right - libertarians (and even those don't hold the opinions you're attributing to them, but often talk about alternative economic ideas like a citizens» income) who are about as representative of mainstream Liberal Democrat thought as Tony Benn is of Labour, you should look at sites like http://socialliberal.net/, which more or less represents the mainstream of the party.

«In opposing H.R. 822, Schneiderman makes it clear that a citizen's 2nd Amendment civil rights can be abridged by nothing more than arbitrary political boundaries.

It makes same - sex couples second tier citizens who receive less protection and have fewer rights than others.

@Avi it is not necessary to look at the 14th amendment; constitutional protections for non-citizens go back at least to the bill of rights, which also use the words «person» and «people» rather than «citizen.»

It seems the point is really to have a feeling of control or even to make EU citizens jumps through hoops for the sake of affirming that being working in the UK is a privilege rather than a right EU citizens have on an equal footing with British citizens so a symbolic rather than a practical distinction.

In the era of the Arab Revolutions, and with citizens asserting their rights and holding their governments accountable from Brazil to Turkey to Cambodia, the people power of cultural diplomacy is more important than ever.

Rather than put your «Fuji House of Commotion» in order, you always shamelessly declare that «corruption is fighting back» and that the courts are against the anti corruption fight, as if the courts owe the executive a sacred duty and obligation to help it trample on citizens» rights and win badly prepared and lousily prosecuted cases at all cost.

Dadey, with Citizens Union, maintains that even if there are some flaws, the amendment would still result in a better system for drawing lines than we have right now.

Jurisprudence concerning candidacy rights and the rights of citizens to create a political party are less clear than voting rights.

«The chairman of the committee on Science Space and Technology is making what to us is a pretty ludicrous assertion, that rather than trying to protect the rights of citizens to ensure that business fraud, and could be very significant business fraud we could talk about inflating up assets by many billions of dollars, their claim is that this is a politically charged effort to silence descending views on climate,» Schneiderman said on a recent visit to Syracuse.

«The Tories would ditch the Human Rights Act because they care more about losing votes to Ukip than the rights of British citizens,» he told the confeRights Act because they care more about losing votes to Ukip than the rights of British citizens,» he told the conferights of British citizens,» he told the conference.

Despite a clear legal right to register from their campus addresses if they wish (in the same way as senior citizens can choose their voting address if they have more than one), localities sometimes challenge students» rights.

Right now the SNAP - Ed nutrition program is available in every state and reaches more than 6 million people, but this is only a small fraction of the 50 million or more citizens who are struggling to eat healthfully on a budget.

Which, coming from an older, almost - ready - for - the - senior - citizen's - menu - options person, is much funnier than it has any right to be.

In this realization, advancing global citizen's movement to shepherd the transition to a sustainable, equitable, and democratic future, one in which ethics is both a right and a responsibility — at the level of the individual, the community and the planet has become more important than ever.

Not long after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the federal government began rounding up more than 100,000 West Coast citizens of Japanese descent, civil rights be damned.

If you train a different lens upon all this, however, you realize that you're looking at a badly messed - up system, one that privileges some kids over others, that extends rights to some citizens that others don't have, that invites finagling by both seekers and suppliers of educational services (and countless intermediaries), and that ends up being costlier than it needs to be, not to mention sitting substantially beyond the reach of policymakers seeking to apportion scarce education dollars across multiple legitimate causes, needs, and priorities.

If we can not be sure what fundamental right is «better» and more important, than we or any other institution can not hold scales and weigh any of our rights that we hold as the citizens and as the human beings.

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.

We have a higher percentage of black citizens in prison right now than South Africa did at the height of apartheid.

When the final reports were filed in Bridgeport, the corporate education reform industry and its supporters spent more than $ 560,000, a state record, in their effort to take away the right of local citizens to elect their own board of education.

I'm not the gambling type but I'm willing to bet librarians are much more concerned for authors» and copyright holders» rights than the average citizen; despite having been continually burned by publishers.

Much as you might like to have value protected from the clutches of the government, that is easier said than done, and there are thieves that will pick away at those who get value away from governments, because ultimately in an interconnected world, you have to trust other people at some points, and trust can be violated as much as the rights of a citizen can be violated.

You're offering your creditors more than they would get if you filed for a bankruptcy so sometimes that takes a little while to sink in but I do see, especially of my senior citizen clients that are proud that they're doing a proposal, they're paying back what they can afford to pay back and they feel ethically that's the right way to do it.

Whether your dog is a puppy or senior citizen, there's no better time to start dog obedience training than right now.

But the rights of ordinary citizens have always been much on Ward's mind - and never more so than in the last year, when he personally went through the process of becoming a United States citizen.

Over more than 45 years of practice, Sirkin has consistently defended the free speech and constitutional rights of countless individuals and businesses, including adult entertainment establishments, museums, artists, activists, and ordinary citizens in all types of cases.

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)?

Right now, more than 100,000 U.S. citizens are employed by the wind energy industry.

«The Committee is concerned that these efforts to silence speech are based on political theater rather than legal or scientific arguments, and that they run counter to an attorney general's duty to serve «as the guardian of the legal rights of the citizens» and to «assert, protect, and defend the rights of the people.

To interpret Rottmann to trump this would require a judgment even more grandiose than Van Gend or Costa, something in which the Court pronounced that the present state of integration was such that the removal of their fundamental status and rights from a group of Union citizens could only be permitted if the national constitutional process leading to it was itself sufficiently democratic to comply with the requirements of EU law.

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).

We conclude, as have many other state courts, that our State Constitution, which serves ** 1275 only «to limit the sovereign power which inheres directly in the people and indirectly in their elected representatives,» Hunt at 365, 450 A. 2d 952, is a more appropriate vehicle to resolve questions concerning the rights of our citizens to travel the highways of our state without police interdiction and the rights of the police to use reasonable methods to enforce our traffic laws than is the federal constitution.

While it is true that a student does not lose his constitutional rights at the school house door or at the entrance to the college campus neither does he become cloaked with greater protection than any non-student who is the subject of a seizure of evidence by a private citizen.

According to the Irish authorities, the right to retain worker status after having worked for more than one year — granting the right to reside and equal treatment — was reserved exclusively for Union citizens working under an employment contract.