But we do think children have a right to be protected and that we should enforce the duty on adults not to harm them.
What it means, on this theory, for me to have the right to education is for me to have the option of enforcing the duty of some other person or persons to provide me with an education, or to discharge them from the responsibility of doing so.
"As a police officer your responsibility is always to enforce the law, on duty or off duty.
The chief justice understood that, while the Court has the duty to enforce the Constitution and to make sure that new laws stay within constitutional bounds, the unelected Supreme Court should be very reluctant to overturn newly enacted legislation and should look for every possible source of constitutional authority for the law.
John C. Eastman, a law professor at Chapman University in Orange, Calif., and the chairman of the National Association for Marriage, which opposes same-sex marriage, said government officials in the two cases had demonstrated "a cavalier attitude toward their duties to enforce the law".
Crown agent Edward Randolph, sent to New England in 1676 to collect customs duties and enforce the Navigation Acts, documented a list of issues and took his complaints to the Lords of Trade in London.
"Lincolnshire County Council has a duty to enforce the regulations, which require businesses to review and reduce their packaging," he said.
The I.R.S. must not flinch from its duty to enforce the tax code and root out political operatives who are abusing the law and conning taxpayers and voters.
Confronted with this threat, the court asserted that it had a clear duty to enforce the rights of low-income citizens under the State Constitution.
The commission, which has a statutory duty to enforce the Equality Act 2006 and prevent discrimination, made its concerns known to the BNP earlier this year.
But he said the state supreme court was clearly going to favour same-sex marriage and that he had a constitutional duty to enforce the law.
