Despite all this, some EU members are upholding their traditions of military might, and are prepared to deploy armed forces abroad.
That would leave the UK outside the family of nations upholding universal human rights and would hugely diminish our reputation abroad.
And it concludes by calling on the Bahraini government "to recommit to upholding press freedom and freedom of expression in Bahrain, and to take immediate steps to end all intimidation, arrest, abuse, prosecution and detention of journalists and media professionals on charges relating to their work".
It was also upholding the principle of freedom of expression.
I don't suppose London civil servants (professionally committed to upholding the UK state) carry a great deal more clout than Osborne in Scottish public debate, but at least he's not a Tory, and he did seem to know what he was talking about.
He has every chance to repair the blunders of his predecessor while upholding the principles of compassionate, centrist Conservatism.
Chief Justice Roberts could conceivably be a sixth vote to uphold – the chief justice surrenders his power to assign the opinion if he joins with the dissenters, and if Kennedy's vote is lost, he may decide to try to moderate the opinion upholding the statute – but I think it's highly unlikely that he would be a fifth.
Martha F Davis teaches constitutional law at Northeastern University school of law To the increasing number of legal observers who see the supreme court upholding the Affordable Care Act as a near certainty, Tuesday's oral arguments may be a surprise.
Although his whereabouts are currently unknown, he has been granted legal aid, and his lawyers are asking three court of appeal judges in London to quash high court orders made in October 2012 upholding a decision by home secretary's to restrict his movements.
Sir Jeremy Heywood, the cabinet secretary, and Sir Christopher Geidt, the Queen's private secretary, embarked on discussions to work out how the Queen might register her concerns at the prospect of a yes vote while upholding her constitutional duty to remain wholly impartial.
The resolution called on the 193 UN member states "to review their procedures, practices and legislation regarding the surveillance of communications, their interception and collection of personal data, with a view to upholding the right to privacy of all their obligations under international human rights law".
