Sentence examples for a class of citizens from inspiring English sources

Felon-disfranchisement laws have removed a class of citizens from the electoral equation, and the titanic sums of money in politics create a drastic disadvantage for poor communities.

Gill insists not on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage but on the unconstitutionality of denying federal benefits to a class of citizens whose marriages are recognized by the state.

Given that the Lawrence case established gay sex as a protected right, Mr. Olson argues, the state must demonstrate that it has a rational basis for discriminating against a class of citizens simply for engaging in that behavior.

DOMA constitutes discrimination against a class of citizens.

The Roman aristocracy was composed of a class of citizens called Patricians, while all other citizens were called Plebeians.

Marriage equality brings dignity and respect to a class of citizens that has too long been exempted from one of life's hallmark events.

As Michelle Perrot likes to say, the revolution didn't change this; it simply replaced the king with what you could call a class of super-citizens — the citizens who know best when it comes to what's good for the people or what the people should do, and this means that the people accept an astonishing amount of discipline when someone in charge demands it.

Originally the populus consisted only of the patricians, who formed a class of privileged citizens.

They have and do make headlines, from the last century when Chinese labourers working on the railroads were described as sub-human because of their opium use to now, when three out of every four jail inmates doing time for drugs is black: "Drug scares have served to displace a class of brutalised citizens from the nation's moral conscience".

But while protesters denounce the threat to flora and fauna, María Ester Quijanes, a Cochrane City Council member, is more concerned that the project will create a privileged class of citizens than with the environmental consequences of damming Patagonia.

They were considered a special class of citizens.