One difference is that governments have the power of the state, they can use violence.
Egypt's courts are emerging as the only serious check to the huge power of the state.
The coercive power of the state to violate individual rights is, on this issue, prohibited.
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And in a majority of Arab countries, the power of the state remains formidable if not overwhelming.
And that we should reduce the power of the state to do violence against individuals and corporations.
Critics say that they will strengthen the power of the state, removing a number of checks and balances.
Venezuelans were subjected to a brutal campaign as the government threw all the power of the State behind Chavez.
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Therefore, organizations, including workers organizations are nothing but an annoyance and an obstacle to the overwhelming power of the state.
Thanks to the power of the state football federations, Brazilian clubs play too many matches in state championships, often in half-empty stadiums.
Leaders such as John Calvin, with Bible in hand, used the power of the state to brutally enforce the new religious orthodoxy.
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The key to change lies to some extent in the regulatory power of the state but also in the choices, political and individual, we make.
While Obama wants to control as much as possible to maximize the power of the state, they want the limited government promised by the Constitution.
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"We stand between the power of the state and the individual, and in doing so defend the core values that make this country great, " Clarke said.
Today I want to take the next step and show how we will control the power of the state and make it more accountable to people.
Soft paternalists argue that, without the power of the state behind such schemes, they will often break down: the sovereign consumer can always veto his own decisions.
For decades, these two groups have been fighting in the legislative arena, with each side trying to deploy the power of the state to promote their preferred lifestyle.
To transform America into a fair and just society, we must reject the original meaning of those founding principles which elevate individual liberty over the power of the state.
Critics say that they will strengthen the power of the state, further cementing the governing conservative Fidesz party's position in public institutions, and damaging democracy by removing a number of checks and balances.
The power of the state was built up on new foundations to something like the status which it had enjoyed in Roman times, and endowed with a bureaucratic apparatus such as Rome had never had.
Particularly in times of change and economic uncertainty, some will say that it is easier to take a shortcut to development by trading away the right of human beings for the power of the state.
But nobody was talking about the Declaration on Tuesday, about being endowed by our Creator with inalienable rights, about absolute limits on the power of the state, about property rights: that kind of talk is so GOP primary.
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But if Newt's forward thinking is in some ways admirable, it is odd territory at the end of an economic crisis, for a politician whose main theme is cutting government spending and decreasing the power of the state.
In none of these cautionary examples did the free market do the three things businessmen say it always does: weaken the coercive power of the state, create a democratically minded middle class, or expose the populace to liberal ideals from abroad.
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But at least the necessary four Justices decided there were grounds to weigh in on fairly narrow legal questions: Did the Florida Supreme Court usurp the power of the state legislature by allowing hand counts to continue past the legal deadline?
Constrained as the chancellor is by his excellent self-imposed disciplines in fiscal and monetary policy, if he is to affirm the power of the state to do good in the land and he is a socialist, remember it must be by means of ingenious wheezes and stratagems.
Each time her house is searched, or her life is threatened, or she's once again arrested -- more than 30 times so far -- she continues to stand in public and inspire the people of Zimbabwe -- the power of the state then seems a little less absolute.
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Who can seriously doubt that the power which a millionaire, who may be my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest bureaucrat possesses who wields the coercive power of the state and on whose discretion it depends how I am allowed to live and work?
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The vast corporate nexus of the oil, automobile, and petrochemical industries -- enabled by the military and political power of the American imperial state -- constitutes the system of addiction.
The rise of this new hybrid has led to a dramatic change in the balance of power between the state and the market.
Four years ago the full power of the Chinese state was mustered in support of the Olympics.
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