Sentence examples for features of justice from inspiring English sources

Yet his account of the nature of justice and the specific features of justice that he takes to establish its value, all appeal to considerations that are as available to a naturalist as to a non-naturalist.

Those who believe in equal basic rights, but who reject the other egalitarian features of justice as fairness, must try to find some other route to justifying those basic rights.

Individuals, whatever groups and associations they belong to, must be able to embark on the deliberative process called wide reflective equilibrium that leads them to endorse, from their own perspective, the content of the political reflective equilibrium, including its injunctions about using only public reason in thinking about certain basic features of justice or the constitution.

One of the most remarkable features of Justice Scalia's majority opinion and Justice Stevens's dissent (joined by Justices Ginsburg, Breyer, and Souter) is the view that the Second Amendment means only what it meant at the time of its proposal and ratification in 1789-91.

But it's not surprising that hanging and beheading have become a grim feature of "justice" in the Muslim world.

From antiquity onward, equality has been considered a constitutive feature of justice.

This unavoidable fact of reasonable pluralism makes one key feature of justice as fairness untenable, namely the account Rawls gave of the stability of his preferred conception of justice.

For modern readers concerned about inequality in arrest and incarceration rates, prison labor practices, and the retraction of civil rights for ex-prisoners, the last third of Huck Finn is a painful reminder that such patterns have been features of the justice system since the Civil War. 3. In truth, it's not exactly a book at all.

Last month, William G. Young, the federal judge presiding in Boston over the criminal case against Richard C. Reid, a British citizen accused of trying to detonate a bomb in his shoe on a trans-Atlantic flight, noted that the very establishment of those tribunals "has the effect of diminishing the American jury, once the central feature of American justice".

Youth visits to penitentiaries were first popularised after the 1978 documentary Scared Straight! and remained a feature of youth justice in Canada well into the next two decades.

As first reported by the CBC, the man testified in front of the Supreme Court of British Columbia earlier this year and the court reached their verdict on his case on December 4. Youth visits to penitentiaries were first popularized after the 1978 documentary Scared Straight! and remained a feature of youth justice in Canada well into the next two decades.