Crane observed in front of an increasingly engaged audience that quite unlike other countries, the U.S. was created by men who wrote a founding a document granting the federal government itself well defined and very limited powers, all the while charging it with aggressively protecting our rights as indviduals.
The time has come for Americans to take over this conversation and demand sensible solutions that help keep us safe while protecting our Constitutional rights.
"There doesn't have to be a conflict between protecting our citizens and protecting our Second Amendment rights, " Obama said.
"There doesn't have to be a conflict between protecting our citizens and protecting our Second Amendment rights, " Obama said, calling Colorado a model for that kind of solution.
All supporters of protecting our Second Amendment rights should hope if not demand that a sensible conversation can be facilitated on this issue.
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Few countries, for instance, share our rules protecting the rights of the accused, or have the U.S.'s constitutionally mandated separation of church and state.
The former ambassador said the radical cleric "will get a trial which is sufficiently fair to discharge our responsibilities" in protecting his human rights.
Quite to the contrary, our constitutional rights are based on protecting the rights of the individual, especially when the majority might be seeing things a different way.
The true test is whether the Iraqi government will demonstrate that it is serious about protecting the human rights of all Iraqis, and what role our own State Department can play in helping to protect this minority in Iraq.
More importantly, would it have overstressed the capabilities of HHS to pay particular attention to crafting a rule that would avoid going anywhere near a potential violation of a First Amendment right when protecting these rights should always be foremost in the minds of our government officials?
I've spent my entire life trying to make good on it, whether it was fighting for women's basic rights or children's basic health care, protecting our social security or protecting our soldiers.
"Bayer is committed to protecting its patents for Nexavar and will rigorously continue to defend our intellectual property rights within the Indian legal system, " the company said in a statement.
"Bayer is committed to protecting its patents for Nexavar and will rigorously continue to defend our intellectual property rights within the Indian legal system, " the company said in a statement quoted by the Associated Press.
Yet in our zeal to fight terrorism worldwide, we have chipped away at our precious rights, willing to surrender hard-fought civil liberties under the guise of protecting ourselves from terrorists at home and abroad.
That is why Identity Cards using biometric technology are not a breach of our basic rights, they are an essential part of responding to the reality of modern migration and protecting us against identity fraud.
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