Ockham took this as a statement of a natural right belonging to each "free" community, i.e. one not already under government, to establish its own law and its own government.[96] This right exists by natural law in the third sense (§6.1 above), i.e. "on supposition", namely on the supposition that the community needs law and government.
Amy Schumer is no train wreck, but a statement of a woman's right to promiscuity and not to be disparaged because of her desire for many sexual partners.
Bettati, at Kouchner's instruction, drew up a statement laying out a right of "humanitarian access," read it out to the crowd and then passed it to Chirac, who vowed to take the text to the United Nations.
Same-sex weddings still represent another stage of coming out as a couple as well as a political statement of our right to marry.
I abhor the current posing behind British nationalism, with ever present union flags (often incorrectly flown), but I am attracted by the prospect of a written constitution, a statement of individual rights and the opportunity to vote for a parliament with a mandate to deliver social justice.
Kenneth Lay Kenneth Lay, former chairman and chief executive of bankrupt Enron, resigned from the company's board yesterday just as the Senate Commerce Committee prepared to vote to issue a subpoena that would compel his testimony or a public statement of his right not to incriminate himself.
The argument begins with Strauss's observation that the Declaration of Independence, with its assertion of "self-evident" truths and "unalienable Rights," was a classic statement of natural right, in keeping with Aristotle and Plato.
"Though not well known," Dr. Jackson said, "it is a major statement of the right to associate with whom you want, and the right to practice the religion of your choice".
So the original meaning of the first amendment, for example, is not the common law rights of free speech or the press in 1791 in fact there was no agreed set of such rights at the time but an abstract statement of the right to freedom of expression to be interpreted and reinterpreted as circumstances and society's attitudes change.Mr Dworkin's words carry the ring of truth.
