Sentence examples for constitutional commitment from inspiring English sources

Is there a risk to the fundamental constitutional commitment to civilian control of the military?

As someone with a constitutional commitment to freedom of expression, I find these strictures disturbing.

Unfortunately, the administration has shown a complete lack of regard for our constitutional commitment to religious liberty".

American warplanes often stop in Ireland for refueling, which critics say breaches Ireland's constitutional commitment to neutrality.

While the constitutional commitment is generally met in federal courts, it is a different story in state courts, which handle about 95 percent of America's criminal cases.

The only triumphs celebrated on these occasions are Japan's prosperity in the decades after its defeat and its longstanding constitutional commitment never to engage in war again.

As Justice Elena Kagan says powerfully in her first dissent, "by ravaging Flast in this way," the majority "damages one of this nation's defining constitutional commitments".

But in doing so, we must not let the symbolic need to do something in a time of fear lead us to sacrifice our constitutional commitments to freedom.

The general has fulfilled all his constitutional commitments, and there is "no reason" to obstruct his entry to the Senate, says Carlos Caceres, who was the last interior minister of the military regime.Others see it differently.

"There are times, especially times of national panic," Professor Tribe said, "when both of the elected branches are prepared to defy core constitutional protections of human rights and only a truly independent branch, one that has no need to worry about the election returns, can be counted on to hold the line and preserve our basic constitutional commitments".

They appeared to attribute the failure to the government's very indifference to its constitutional commitments: "The Government argues that most or all of the individuals affected by the Executive Order have no rights under the Due Process Clause" — and thus it didn't have to worry about due process.