Sentences with phrase «toward liberty of»

The government will work toward liberty of its citizens.

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This would assume an «imaginative,» not a historical, disposition: a divine intent in history, God - gifted immutable laws of morality, to which man has a duty to conform; order as a first requirement of good governance, achieved best by a restraint and respect for custom and tradition; variety as more desirable than systematic uniformity and liberty more desirable than equality; the honor and duty of a good life in a good community as taking precedence over individual desire; an embrace of a skepticism toward reason and abstract principle.

The emigration - fueled growth of religious pluralism and internal religious splits found in practically all of the colonies» combined with the principled arguments leading toward religious liberty put forth by William Penn, Roger Williams, and later Thomas Jefferson and James Madison» led, in meandering and often inadvertent fashion, to the principles of «no establishment» and «free exercise» of religion embodied in the First Amendment.

Our ideas of personal liberty tend toward an antisocial individualism, and «looking out for number one,» rather than a proper relationship to one's community.

«Some of these measures might make some difference; a few could be counterproductive; most are likely to accomplish little in promoting progress toward religious liberty.»

Toward the end of their statement, the 15 bishops who signed this statement called on every U.S. Catholic to join in a «great national campaign» on behalf of religious liberty.

It is also evident that they will be, in one way or another, parables of democratic faith, carrying forward the prophetic convictions of our biblical and religious heritage through the story of our shared secular struggle toward «liberty and justice for all.»

The world would take note of what the gospel makes possible for those who confess their dis - ease with each other but still keep going, strangers locked in covenant, toward the better country of diversity and harmony, liberty and love.

In its advanced stage, the passive depletion has become active destruction: Remnants of associations historically charged with the cultivation of norms are increasingly seen as obstacles to autonomous liberty, and the apparatus of the state is directed toward the task of liberating individuals from any such bonds.

In the aftermath of Friday's Supreme Court decision, attention is turning toward the future of religious liberty.

In the name of religious liberty and of tolerance, I have found, the radical separationists are profoundly intolerant and illiberal toward religious conservatives.

«Removing even a nod toward «religious liberty» from the platform puts Democrats at fundamental odds with the many religious organizations whose mission is nonviolence and protection of the most vulnerable,» wrote executive director Kristen Day and Fordham University professor Charles Camosy.

If this speculation has any validity, the dramatic change in attitudes toward the right to die may be part of a more general drift since World War II toward greater tolerance, as evidenced by an increase in respect for the civil liberties of «deviants» of both the «left» and the «right.»

The first two hundred years of the American Republic tell an unfolding tale of aspiration — and progress — toward the idea of liberty and justice for all.

The outcome of each struggle was a new measure of liberty which marked another lurching step toward the promise of freedom Americans had made to themselves.

The National Catholic Reporter: Bishops told religious liberty is in growing «global crisis» There is an increasing «global crisis» of «government restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward religion,» an expert on religious liberty told the U.S. bishops Wednesday during their spring national meeting in Atlanta.

«Although the memo does not overturn the Obama executive order prohibiting sexual - orientation discrimination by government contractors, it signals a hospitable attitude toward accommodating religious - liberty objections by religious organizations in the context of contracts or grants,» he said.

Mahoney's analysis shows Solzhenitsyn to be a Burkean «style admirer of constitutional mon archy that gradually evolves toward ordered liberty while preserving his nation's distinctive traditions.

``... implored Mr. Cuomo to work toward perserving the rights of Orthodox Jews to conduct Bris Milah in the traditional way including metzitzah b» peh as a matter of religious liberty.»

By hastily rubber - stamping this deeply problematic proposal, the Committee has taken a step toward a future in which the lives of terminally - ill persons are treated as expendable, and in which insurance companies will be at liberty to make cost - saving coverage decisions that steer vulnerable individuals toward physician - assisted death.

Tocqueville feared that if ever Americans neglected their participation in associations or local government entities like school committees, the tendency would be toward a loss of liberty and a surrender to what Tocqueville called a «mild despotism.»

One of us thinks the efforts of half the global population who struggle toward a western standard of life and liberty will cause a global bull market that could last a long, long time.â $

The American Planning Association (which is part of the UN-related Global Planners Network and the World Planners Congress) gives every evidence of supporting the worldwide move toward global central planning, ignoring the fact that individuals have a God - given right to plan their own lives and that the history of government central planning has shown it to be invariably disastrous and always the enemy of prosperity and liberty.

«We are here to express our concern with the lack of confidence of a growing number of our fellow citizens toward our judicial institutions that are there to uphold fundamental individual and collective liberties and the primacy of the law,» litigator Rémi Bourget, one of the organizers of the march, shouted through a megaphone.

Although parents are lawfully entitled to restrict the liberty of their children in accordance with the best interests of the child, if a parent engages in abusive or harmful conduct toward his or her child that surpasses any acceptable form of parenting, the lawfulness of his or her authority to confine the child ceases.»

However, even the smallest change must be calibrated toward a goal we all share: maintaining the fine balance between protection of the public and protection of the individual within that system who is faced with a potential loss of liberty.