Sentences with phrase «which free citizens»

These are the elementary skills of civil society, through which free citizens exercise self - government by doing for themselves (that is, without turning to government) what needs to be done.

Not exact matches

If you'd rather not have a vehicle of your own, the city has a growing network of public buses on the main boulevards which senior citizens can travel for free on.

One major catalyst for the referendum was U.K. citizens» fears that high immigration was fueled by the right to free movement of people throughout the EU, which is entrenched in European law.

Greece's citizens not unreasonably regard the State as akin to a mafia organization which they are trying to avoid as much as possible (unless it promises them free goodies to buy their votes — they do of course gladly accept those).

Please let me know of any issue based on the facts on which Rush Limbaugh has added anything of value to the betterment of the USA for its free citizens.

New Urbanists work both substantively and procedurally to fight precisely those tendencies toward individualism that Tocqueville recognized as the most serious threat to the culture of democracy, for which free associations of citizens were the primary remedy and of which suburban sprawl is arguably our culture's foremost physical embodiment.

With 300 million firearms in private hands (one - third of them pistols), the overwhelming majority of gun owners ARE responsible, law - abiding citizens, which is why these horrific massacres are not commonplace, but rather horrific outliers that can never be legislated away (e.g. DC, Chicago, and «Gun Free Zones»).

one must be struck at the constant union of religious ideas with patriotic sentiments, which so strongly characterize the [American] citizens... but what is no less worthy of remark is that their religion, freed from minute ceremonies, resembles a sentiment, as much as their love of liberty resembles a creed.

The widespread success of Olympian religion, in leading the Greeks into axial existence, made possible a new form of government in which the masses of free citizens participated in basic political decisions.

Full debate requires that the argument stretch to the ultimate ideal by which all activities of the state ought to be informed, and this means that citizens should be free to advance and defend any religion they find convincing.

1) Charities spend their income on necessities, such as food and utilities, which ever - so - slightly re-orients our economy toward recession - resistant products, rather than luxuries 2) Charities spend their money quickly, but on independent schedules, making for a smoother stimulus effect on the economy 3) Charities make purchases tax - free, meaning that $ 1 spent by a charity generates a full $ 1 of private economic activity; furthermore, much of those tax revenues are recovered as income tax on the grocery stores, utility companies, etc. that might not have received that income otherwise 4) Charitable giving is by far the most democratic way to improve society; from birth control to bombers, government assuredly spends money on something you don't like, and charitable giving restores your say - so 5) Charitable donations are tax deductible, meaning you keep those tax dollars in your local community 6) Charitable donations provide the funds necessary for volunteers to serve the needy, thus giving «the average citizen» a chance to meet and interact with the needy, breaking down stereotypes

One of the distinctive characteristics of American democracy is its voluntary associations, which citizens are free to join or not to join.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

Sandford (whose name was actually Sanford), acting on behalf of his sister who was Dred Scott's owner, injected into the litigation the question whether any black person, free or slave, could be a citizen of the United States, and he directly challenged the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which forbade slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 ° 30».

By going meat free once a week at lunchtime, and participating in lessons which address the issues behind MFM, students will learn what it means to be more responsible global citizens and will better understand how the choices they make today will affect them and future generations.

The saga left a bitter taste in the mouths of the Citizens, but the Chilean seems to be trying to be professional and get on with the campaign, which is great news for our season, although we still have to expect to see him leave for free next summer.

We are unable to reconcile our claim of a free democratic state in which the rights of citizens are paramount with such excessive censure of the right to free expression.

I'm a free - speech purist, for one thing, but it's also leading to far more citizen activism, which will really matter as more people focus their work locally.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

According to political scientist Larry Diamond, democracy consists of four key elements: (a) A political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; (b) The active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; (c) Protection of the human rights of all citizens, and (d) A rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens

It's «declaration of the founding of the Transitional National Council» lists its goals which include ensuringhr safety of citizens, the restoration of normal civilian life, facilitating the election of a constituent assembly to draft a new constitution to be put to referendum and a transitional government to pave the way for free elections.

The monarchy created a deal with the British government years ago whereby the monarchy gives them the right to a large portion of their lands which are worth around 200 million pounds annually in exchange for 40 million pounds annually meaning that the monarchy actually makes the UK citizens taxes cheaper and essentially gifts the government 160 million pounds a year for free.

Outlining his proposals, Mr Lewis stated that he wants to «rename the RE curriculum and transform it into a religion, philosophy and ethics element of the curriculum», which would contain «an explicit commitment to allow children to ponder ideas around ethics and citizenship and what it means to be a citizen of a free country».

«I worked closely together to open a free legal clinic, which has helped hundreds of tenants in this community, many of them senior citizens, remain in their homes.

The Democratic legislator, Kenneth Jenkins, provided letters to Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore and Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe asking their offices to «conduct an investigation into a scheme to defraud the public, which deprived the citizens of a free, fair and honest election for Clarkstown Supervisor this past November.»

Last month, southern China's Zhongshan city for the first time filled its streets with 4,000 public bicycles, which citizens can ride free of charge for up to an hour.

The twin principles upon which rests the so - called Solomon Amendment [to the fiscal 1983 Defense Department authorization bill, passed last year], which denies federal assistance to students who fail to register for a potential military draft, are these: It is the first priority of our federal government to preserve freedom and national security, and it is the primary responsibility of free citizens to obey the laws that are necessary to guarantee...

When a school in Idaho caved to parent pressure and removed Sherman Alexie's Absolutely True Diary of a Part - Time Indian from the curriculum, two concerned citizens launched a crowdfunding campaign to purchase 350 free copies of the book, which were distributed with the help of Reclaimed Books and high schooler Brady Kissel; the publisher, Hachette, gave an additional 350 copies of the book to the cause.

Seemingly, Amazon's free Kindle books emerge out of control and now spell frustration to their motherland on which the overpopulated citizens migrate somewhere else and lure the new visitors away.

To the public library, of course — a place which offers more than just physical books on shelves, by the way (programs for toddlers and young adults, literacy programs, workshops for job searchers and senior citizens, free community meeting spaces, etc.).

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She went to a college, which in 1970 was free to CA citizens.

Finally, the organization decided to offer a «Free Plus Incentive» program in which citizens could have their dogs altered for free plus receive a parting gFree Plus Incentive» program in which citizens could have their dogs altered for free plus receive a parting gfree plus receive a parting gift.

Animal Services partners with rescue groups all over town, such as Animal Mission, which spends about $ 125,000 a year to assist citizens of Columbia and Richland County with free spay / neuter.

the citizens counter is just the number of registered accounts which you can register an account for free for any number of reasons.

Entrance to the exhibition is included with general museum admission, which is $ 10 for adults, $ 8 for senior citizens (65 +), $ 8 for full - time college students with ID, $ 4 for children ages 6 - 17 and free for children under 6 and for museum members.

In order to encourage Russian citizens to get in better shape, the government has come up with an unusual incentive: commuters in Moscow will receive a free subway ticket, which costs 30 rubles or $ 0.92 USD, if they can perform 30 air squats in front of special automated transit machines that can tell if you're cheating.

It seeks a society characterized by freedom of thought for individuals, limitations on power, especially of government and religion, the rule of law, the free exchange of ideas, a market economy that supports relatively free private enterprise, and a transparent system of government in which the rights of all citizens are protected.

But an age in which the hookers are free but the British Parliament is proposing issuing each citizen with a «carbon allowance» is beyond satire.

Fair Trade blends come in flavors including cranberry blood orange, wild blueberry, apricot honey, and cherry apple — some of which are also part of the Little Citizens line, which carries caffeine - free fruity flavors aimed at kids and donates $ 1 from each purchase to Room to Read.

The «man - made hysteria» associated with the global - warming fraud is a real threat to mankind in the sense that it a) has the potential to, and in fact is, turning millions of gullible individuals into fanatical, anti-human ideologues, b) diverting precious time, money and resources that could be more usefully spent elsewhere into the ridiculous and unscientific attempts by environmental extremists to «control the climate» via enforced — through government legislation and burdensome taxes — behaviour modification of supposedly free citizens, and c) giving the practice of science a bad reputation amongst the general populace, which in turn has been a major contributing factor to the general decline in the understanding of basic scientific concepts, and reality in general, that we have been witnessing over the last 40 years or so (ex.

«to take the opportunity afforded by these two references to give clear and structured guidance as to the circumstances in which the third country national family member of an EU citizen who is residing in his home Member State but who is exercising his rights of free movement can claim a derived right of residence in the home Member State under EU law.»

In a first case, C - 431 / 11 UK v Council, the CJEU dealt with the choice of legal basis for a measure implementing an European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement as regards social security systems and ruled that it was precisely one of the measures by which the law governing the EU internal market is to be extended as far as possible to the EEA, with the result that nationals of the EEA States concerned benefit from the free movement of persons under the same social conditions as EU citizens.

It is thus the only case in which the daughter — the EU citizen — had previously made use of her free movement rights.

Let's try to compare the point 50 of the opinion: «While the movement of citizens of the Union between Member States is governed by EU law, and in particular by Article 21 TFEU and Directive 2004/38, the same does not apply to visits to Member States by Heads of State» which basically says that the movement of diplomats falls outside the scope of EU law, with the judgment of the Court in paragraph 51: «Accordingly, the fact that a Union citizen performs the duties of a Head of State is such as to justify a limitation, based on international law, on the exercise of the right of free movement conferred on that person by Article 21 TFEU.».

A limitation of the free movement of EU - citizen diplomats would then only be allowed when there is an actual and present danger to their security which therefore can not be guaranteed (with an analogy to its case - law on infringements to free movement by expulsion, which is only allowed if the personal conduct of the EU - citizen forms a genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat affecting one of the fundamental interests of society., cf. the Orfanopoulos - case, par.

This latter value involves the dual - pronged ability of citizens to self - govern according to a clear understanding of their legal entitlements and obligations within a democratic order, while simultaneously being free to publicly question the efficacy and legitimacy of these same laws to which they know that they are coercively beholden.

It presages a law captured by the rhetoric of the right to freedom of expression without due regard to the value underlying the particular exercise of that right; a law in which, under the guise of the right to freedom of expression, the «right» to offend can be exercised without responsibility or restraint providing it does not cause a disruption or disturbance in the nature of public disorder; a law in which an impoverished amoral concept of «public order» is judicially ordained; a law in which the right to freedom of expression trumps — or tramples upon — other rights and values which are the vital rights and properties of a free and democratic society; a law to which any number of vulnerable individuals and minorities may be exposed to uncivil, and even odious, ethnic, sexist, homophobic, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and anti-Islamic taunts providing no public disorder results; a law in which good and decent people can be used as fodder to promote a cause or promote an action for which they are not responsible and over which they have no direct control; a law which demeans the dignity of the persons adversely affected by those asserting their right to freedom of expression in a disorderly or offensive manner; a law in which the mores or standards of society are set without regard to the reasonable expectations of citizens in a free and democratic society; and a law marked by a lack of empathy by the sensibilities, feelings and emotional frailties of people who can be deeply and genuinely affronted by language and behaviour that is beyond the pale in a civil and civilised society.

He said that, although the complainant was a police constable and therefore a public official, she was entitled to enjoy the rights of an ordinary citizen which included the right «to be free from unwarranted physical intrusion into the privacy of her home».

This is rather a matter which explores the important question of the boundaries of acceptable free speech and association by judges in their capacity as private citizens.