Lawyers are always free to form
voluntary associations of their own, apart from any state bar exam.
The boards may continue as
voluntary associations of council leaders.
But they soon learned that under religious freedom in the Republic this had to be instrumented through the indirect influence on the general population of
voluntary associations of what Lyman Beecher called «the wise and the good.»
A legal relationship created by
the voluntary association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners of a business for profit.
It was adopted as part of the official party doctrine at the NSDAP congress in 1920 to express a worldview which was Christian, non-confessional, vigorously opposed to the spirit of «Jewish Materialism», and oriented to the principle of
voluntary association of those with a common racial - ethnic background.
This is not just a logical nicety but an important protection of the freedom of association — a freedom that has been safeguarded in decisions like NAACP v. Alabama (357 U.S. 449, 1958), which held that a state may not compel
a voluntary association of citizens to turn over its list of members because that might subject them to governmental penalties.
Instead of centering on
a voluntary association of interested individuals, ecumenism would be officially structured into church life.
The church was
a voluntary association of the saved.
The Jonah House community is
a voluntary association of persons who have no time commitment to each other and who own all of their property in common.
Is the church
a voluntary association of individuals, or is it a people God has chosen and ordained?
Meanwhile, the conception of the church under the impact first of «toleration» and then of complete freedom and separation had largely lost the sacramental dimension which traditionally had sanctified her regular observances under Episcopal direction by making them intrinsically meaningful, and had become that of
a voluntary association of explicitly convinced Christians for the purpose of mutual edification in the worship of God and the propagandization of the Christian faith as the group defined it.
The word society may also refer to an organized
voluntary association of people for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
The voluntary association of commissioners was formed to set standards and best practices, conduct peer reviews, and to help coordinate regulatory oversight.
The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is
a voluntary association of governments, companies and civil society groups; Global Witness is a member of its board.
The Suzuki Elders are
a voluntary association of self - identified elders working with and through the David Suzuki foundation.
The Ontario Labour - Management Arbitrators» Association (the «Association») is
a voluntary association of individuals who serve as neutral labour arbitrators and who are engaged in the impartial resolution of labour relations disputes in Ontario.
The voluntary association of commissioners was formed to set standards and best practices, conduct peer reviews, and to help coordinate regulatory oversight.
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voluntary association of both hobbyist and professional beekeepers.
Not exact matches
... People do credit cards, equity lines,» said Borg, president
of the North American Securities Administrators
Association, a
voluntary organization devoted to investor protection.
Andrew Herdman, director general
of the
Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, said the IATA data needs to be viewed with caution «as event descriptions are not always standardized» and there are «significant variations in the level
of voluntary reporting by airlines.»
Promisingly, in May 2016 the Family Business Council - Gulf (FBCG), the regional
association of Family Business Network International (FBN), launched the GCC Family Business Governance Code which serves as
voluntary guide on how to organize the family and business together.
For those who can't gain homeowners insurance through the
voluntary market, the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting
Association (MPIUA) is the market
of last resort.
By: Jessica Oosthuizen 27th April 2018 The issue
of discounting the professional fees
of consulting engineers, driven by public sector and private sector clients alike, is plaguing the sustainability
of the consulting engineering industry, says
voluntary association Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) CEO Chris Campbell.
The National
Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is a
voluntary organization
of the chief insurance regulatory officials
of the 50 states, the District
of Columbia and five U.S. territories.
HSBC is a member
of the International Capital Market
Association's (ICMA) Executive Committee for the Green Bond Principles, which are a set
of voluntary standards for issuers
of green bonds.
The VetFran program is a
voluntary effort
of International Franchise
Association (IFA) member companies to encourage franchise ownership by offering financial incentives to honorably discharged veterans.
The teaching
of «oughts» properly belongs in the hands
of private,
voluntary associations — churches, families, neighborhood groups.
Through churches,
voluntary associations, local governments, and a variety
of institutions, conservatives strive to keep community healthy.
Consumerism and privatization undermine the very institutional basis
of democracy — that is, the structure
of voluntary association, the civil society, without which democracy becomes, as Tocqueville warned, democratic despotism or the rule
of an economic aristocracy.
A more explicit theologian, with UU identification and salience, is James Luther Adams, who has focused on social ethics and the religious role
of voluntary associations.
Believing God alone is the Lord
of the conscience, Baptists deny that civil magistrates have any legitimate authority to regulate or coerce the internal religious life
of voluntary associations.
The American novus ordo, with its revolutionary form
of social life — the
voluntary association — demonstrates that ordered liberty and human rights are products
of social arrangements that give primacy to both persons and communities.
Networks working in this direction are many and diverse in nature, ranging from radical political militancy to forms
of moderate, reformist or humanitarian
voluntary civil
associations.
If they prove themselves worthy
of public confidence by maintaining high standards
of competence, if through professional
associations and
voluntary accrediting agencies they discipline themselves in matters
of knowledge, skill, and character, independence
of political control can be assured, and unwarranted interference and coercion can be successfully resisted.
We respond to God's calling to reunite the separated or the broken as well as the calling to provide for our families, to be a parent, to be a member
of voluntary associations, to be an employee.
I noted several
of these institutional changes: (1) Churches became
voluntary associations in a strict sense, though lines around religious liberty or «free exercise» were (are) difficult to draw in this «separation»
of church and state.
He says about «the various Protestant denominations and ecclesial communities» that «their churches are viewed as human constructs
of voluntary association.»
The minimal proposition is that government should get off the backs and out
of the way
of mediating institutions — family, church,
voluntary associations, etc. — and let them do their vital work as they best know how.
The most pressing question for Muslims in many lands is how to order the life
of the community in a society that is not governed according to Muslim law and in which Muslims must conceive
of their religion, at least in part, as equivalent to a
voluntary association.
It is no mere
voluntary association, along the lines
of the local garden club, the bird watching society or the professional group.
The community is more than the state.48 The creative and redemptive work
of God we may readily admit depends perhaps more basically upon the
voluntary associations, the communities
of artists, the scientists, and the schools than upon the political order.
Can churches, universities, and
voluntary associations become places where the identity
of the common and public spiritual culture will be comprehended?
The widespread recognition
of the limits
of statist solutions for social problems, and
of the indispensable role
of mediating institutions such as families, churches, and
voluntary associations.
Another promising sign is the fact that the current head
of the executive branch paid eloquent tribute to
voluntary associations in his speech accepting the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.
By the early 1830s, through the persuasive evangelism
of Walter Scott and through union with Barton Stone's Christian movement, what had begun as a
voluntary society became a rapidly expanding
association of churches.
Moreover, as the 19th century progressed, evangelical Protestants availed themselves
of the wide freedom accorded them under the First Amendment to form
voluntary associations, the goal
of whose activities was the erection
of a de facto religious establishment in America.
His work in founding the communitarian movement in 1977 came not because he thought he had changed but because he thought the United States was abandoning its commitment to families and all the
voluntary associations that Tocqueville observed as a defining part
of a liberal republic.
One
of the distinctive characteristics
of American democracy is its
voluntary associations, which citizens are free to join or not to join.
Against both
of those, we are to have a called community — not a
voluntary association, but a people addressed and bound in a concrete and abiding loyalty.
If the Church refused to marry them because they did not meet its criteria for a sacramental wedding» if both parties were
of the same sex, for example» the state could do nothing about it, since the Church is a
voluntary association protected by the free exercise clause
of the First Amendment.