Sentence examples for power to violate from inspiring English sources

So if there is no explicit power to violate privacy given to the government, which there isn't, then we retain our natural right to privacy.

For good measure, he reserved the power to violate the torture bill itself if he thought it necessary for the purposes of national security.

For one thing, "defendants have cited no authority for the proposition that Congress can delegate to the president the power to violate the Constitution and its amendments".

But it does not give them the power to violate the Constitution.

In order to attribute both forms of power to God requires that God have the power to violate the laws of nature.

Third, the liberal critics maintain, when religious believers have employed coercive power to violate the right to religious freedom, they themselves rarely have done so in a way that violates the DRR.

"This would give the administration permanent powers to violate civil liberties".

"If the court holds that the state can invoke its police powers to violate core constitutional provisions to respond to an emergency that, arguably, the state itself created, then aren't we giving the state the power to modify its contractual obligations whenever it wants?" Thomas asked Illinois Solicitor General Carolyn Shapiro during oral arguments.

"It's outrageous that this administration believes it's within their power to force people to violate their right of religion if it interferes with this administration's agenda," Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R-Miss).

Instead, he suggested that no foreign power should be allowed to violate or compromise Iran's independence in the first place.

In effect, the court found, Congress had no power to authorize the states to violate the federal Constitution.