If the United States is no longer dependent on Middle East oil, what will be the justification for protecting the Strait of Hormuz from Iranian or terrorist attack?
As far as I can tell, the majority opinion in Citizens United cites exclusively the first, instrumental justification for protecting free speech.
None of these reasons are justification for protecting bullies and allowing bullying to continue unabated.
Mr. Obama may instead bypass the U.N. and, as in the case of the 1999 NATO air war in Kosovo, assemble an ad hoc international coalition to support military action that would provide legitimacy, if not strict legal justification, for intervening to protect Syrian civilians.
The second justification, protecting the community, does not necessarily diminish in force over time.
"In no way do we think that this is a justification for not trying to protect habitat," she said.
President Vladimir Putin's justification for intervening in Ukraine to protect Russian speakers there has alarmed many in the Baltics, which have their own ethnic Russian minorities whose rights Moscow says are being undermined.
Accordingly, I'm inviting "We The People" to support this non-partisan and non-ideological demand for the return of all our basic freedoms - a demand made in the spirit of our nation's Declaration of Independence that both recalls and insists that the only justification for our government is to protect our Life, our Liberty and our Pursuit of Happiness.
But in contrast to a conception of need as a justification for an individual right which protects against community encroachment, the interests of patients with the same chronic condition may be so closely aligned as to constitute an aggregate, consistent, shared need that can be defined in very rigorous scientific terms.
"The justification for secrecy is usually given to protect the reputations of everyone involved – which is legitimate – and the need to conduct the trial as unencumbered by outside influences," he said.
The specific justification for international intervention in Libya – to protect civilians – was interpreted ever more loosely as the conflict wore on, to the point where it risked losing most of its meaning.
