Sentence examples for it abridges from inspiring English sources

The counsel for the appellants in argument seem to question the constitutional power of congress to pass the act of March 22 , 1882 so far as it abridges the rights of electors in the territory under previous laws.

The assignments of error in this court attack the ordinance upon the ground that it violates the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, in that it abridges the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States to acquire and enjoy property, takes property without due process of law, and denies equal protection of the laws.

The statute of Missouri is alleged to violate the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States in the following particulars: (1) that it abridges the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; (2) denies to persons within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws; and (3) deprives persons of property without due process of law. 1.

The media argue that because this action will reveal the identity of confidential sources, it abridged "the freedom of the press".

They argue that it unconstitutionally abridges free speech and that it would weaken the political parties by pushing donors to turn to independent advocacy groups as they looked for a way around the ban on soft money.

8 Given a case or controversy, a litigant whose own activities are unprotected may nevertheless challenge a statute by showing that it substantially abridges the First Amendment rights of other parties not before the court.

If it may destroy, it may abridge and control.

It must be, Orion is calling it the 40th-anniversary edition; pity it's abridged.

It is precisely this kind of mobocratic pandering that the Founders took pains to counter by enshrining in the Constitution the notion that all citizens of the United States have certain unalienable rights and that no matter how large the majority might be and how much it may wish to do so, it cannot abridge any citizen's exercise of those rights.

In North America, where it has less of a following, it played abridged sets at Montreal's Osheaga Festival, as well as New Jersey's All Points West Music and Arts Festival.

Inside his head". Rubin said the scale of 1Q84 was all the more extraordinary because when The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle was first translated its publishers abridged it, uncertain that there was a market for a Japanese literary novel of that length.