Sentence examples for norms authorized from inspiring English sources

Schmitt realizes, of course, that it is possible for people who are not willing to identify in this way to be legally recognized as citizens, and to live law-abidingly, under the norms authorized by some positive constitution.

The problem is that here the chain of authorization comes to an end: There isn't a higher legal norm that authorizes the enactment of the (original) US Constitution.

An act can create or modify the law if it is created in accordance with another, "higher" legal norm that authorizes its creation in that way.

And the "higher" legal norm, in turn, is legally valid if and only if it has been created in accord with yet another, "higher" norm that authorizes its enactment in that way.

Hans Kelsen holds that what is normally counted as the content of a legal duty is in reality only part of a triggering condition for the mandatory norm which commands or authorizes officials to impose a sanction: "[A] norm: 'You shall not murder' is superfluous, if a norm is valid: 'He who murders ought to be punished'"(Kelsen 1967, 55).

Under the prevailing rule of recognition in a jurisdiction, legal officials are both authorized and obligated to follow specific criteria in determining which norms possess the status of laws.

In Christian Europe violence and persecution of Jews was authorized by government and Church alike and was the norm throughout the Middle Ages.

The institutionalization of a socially conservative norm or standard functions to legitimize what can be said, who has the authority to speak and be heard, and what is authorized as true or as THE truth.

In fact, however, the monks largely codified traditional Buddhist priestly norms of behaviour, and, at least in China, the rules were applied to residents of all authorized monasteries, whether affiliated with the Zen school or not.

Thatcher authorized her release.

Who authorized these payments?