Sentence examples for basic rights of citizens from inspiring English sources

The oldest written national constitution in use, the Constitution defines the principal organs of government and their jurisdictions and the basic rights of citizens.

Benchmark: Understands how the rule of law makes possible a system of ordered liberty that protects the basic rights of citizens Civics Standard 25- Understands issues regarding personal, political, and economic rights.

"Access to education and health is among the basic rights of citizens and as such should be untouchable, whatever the state of the economy," said José San Julián, the director of La Salle San Rafael, a Catholic school that is partly financed by the Madrid regional government and has 750 pupils.

Both methods are not efficient and go against the basic rights of citizens".

Each sought, and still seeks, to extend the basic rights of citizens and human beings to an ever wider spectrum of people than were afforded such by the status quo.

The GOP has consistently tried, and in many instances succeeded, in circumscribing the basic rights of citizens to participate in the electoral process following the conservative-controlled Supreme Court's decision to strike down sections of the 1965 "Voting Rights Act".

"The right to name children is a basic right of citizens," he said.

The basic rights of EU citizens should not be sacrificed in the name of economic growth.

"The concealment of the facts and the distortion of impartial justice harms the most basic rights of Chinese citizens," Ai wrote.

When that responsibility to protect was flouted, when a government abused the basic rights of its citizens through slaughter or ethnic cleansing, sovereignty could in effect be suspended.

I, and other campaigners, feel that if we make the wrong decisions now, we threaten the basic rights of disabled citizens in a way that no civilised country should be willing to contemplate.