The German Federal Constitutional Court's 2009 judgment expresses the general point in the following manner: The constitutional state commits itself to other states with the same foundation of values of freedom and equal rights and which, like itself, make human dignity and the principles of equal entitlement to personal freedom the focal point of their legal order.
The constitutional state commits itself to other states with the same foundation of values of freedom and equal rights and which, like itself, make human dignity and the principles of equal entitlement to personal freedom the focal point of their legal order.
Of Principles and Entitlements Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq pledged the government would give plots of land to thousands of journalists, for a nominal price or possibly even free.
Those who disagreed with the 50 cent levy were strongly opposed to it, not for reasons of affordability, but for reasons of principle such as inequity and a sense of entitlement "After working all my life as a xx….
It confirms the perception many people have already of a man without fixed principle, whose only constant feature is a sense of entitlement to high office.
Through this and preceding cases the courts have gradually formulated a residual power to do what's fair for cohabitees, but they can only fall back on this as an absolute last resort, after all attempts to decide entitlement through ordinary principles of property law have failed.
Contractualists might reply that principles of aid presuppose some background set of entitlements, guaranteeing me the free use of my own resources.
A good chunk of it was principle, but it's hard to deny that there's an element of entitlement.
"My analysis of Hillary Clinton is that there's almost this sense of entitlement, as if this country now has its own hereditary principle; you might as well introduce the House of Lords into Washington.
We do need an urgent discussion of how to make resource allocation more transparent, but replacing the long held progressive principle of redistribution on the basis of need with a vague notion of a "sense of entitlement" seems premature.
