Sentence examples for validity of laws from inspiring English sources

Instead, it asked for fresh briefing on the validity of laws limiting corporate campaign spending.

The validity of laws that, on their face, breach liberties depends on whether they are necessary and proportionate to achieve a legitimate end.

In 1957, for example, the national board of the American Civil Liberties Union declared that "it is not within the province of the [ACLU] to question the validity of laws aimed at the suppression or elimination of homosexuals".

The bill passed by the Icelandic Parliament on Dec. 30 removed some of those conditions, but the president said the matter was not for politicians to decide, as "the nation is the highest judge for the validity of law".

After all, the basic norm is a presupposition that is logically required to render the validity of law intelligible.

These limitations on the use of preferences over law enforcement raises questions about the robustness and validity of law enforcement models.

No legal positivist argues that the systemic validity of law establishes its moral validity, i.e. that it should be obeyed by subjects or applied by judges.

A positivist account of the existence and content of law, along any of the above lines, offers a theory of the validity of law in one of the two main senses of that term (see Harris, pp. 107-111).

Anarchism is understood here precisely as a rejection of the normative validity of law; however, even the anarchist can make an argument about what the law in this or that context requires; and when she makes such an argument, she must presuppose the legal point of view, she must argue as if she endorses the basic norm of the relevant legal system.

For example, John Finnis views natural law (in its Thomist version) not as a constraint on the legal validity of positive laws, but mainly as an elucidation of an ideal of law in its fullest, or highest sense, concentrating on the ways in which law necessarily promotes the common good.

He gave Mr. Hussein some leeway as they jousted over the validity of the laws governing the proceedings -- and the judge reminded Mr. Hussein that the sections of law that require the rights of defendants to be read against them were signed by Mr. Hussein himself.