Sentence examples for persons justice from inspiring English sources

"Its continuance as precedent demeans the lives of homosexual persons," Justice Kennedy wrote.

"The Supreme Court held… that the Constitution requires states to license and recognize same-sex marriages to the same extent that they license and recognize opposite-sex marriages, but it did not hold that states must provide the same publicly funded benefits to all married persons," Justice Jeff Boyd wrote in a decision for the court.

We discuss three major concerns with this perspective: respect for persons, justice, and ignorance.

"She was a formidable person," Justice Kagan said.

"Even a clerk knew how formidable a person Justice O'Connor was".

"Only a natural person," Justice Sotomayor wrote, "can be a victim of torture or extrajudicial killing".

One person Justice Ginsburg now relies on is Mr. Johnson, her trainer.

"[T]o impose the harshest of punishments on an intellectually disabled person," Justice Anthony Kennedy (pictured) wrote in the majority opinion, "violates his or her inherent dignity as a human being .The result in Hall v Florida was no surprise.

"It 'would be an atrocious violation of our Constitution and the principles on which it is based' to execute an innocent person," Justice Stevens wrote, quoting Judge Barkett's dissent.

"The fact that the federal government has the authority to imprison a person for the purpose of punishing him for a federal crime -- sex-related or otherwise -- does not provide the government with the additional power to exercise indefinite civil control over that person," Justice Thomas wrote.

We believe in the inherent worth and dignity of every person, justice equity and compassion in human relations, and acceptance of one another -- also a free and responsible search for truth and meaning, and respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.