These kind of abrogations of democratic power has come to be affectionately known as "Henry VIII" clauses, after the ❋ Afua Hirsch (2010)
There was some suggestion from the Left that certain of the post 9/11 bills (also involving purported civil rights abrogations) were presented with no time to read them. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Lots and lots of women have put up with much worse abrogations of their rights for the sake of their children and for basic survival. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Grownups don't demand arbitrary and illegal state abrogations of due process of law. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“Exceptions” to the privacy, due process, and equal protection clauses are necessarily abrogations of those clauses when they exclude suspect classes without substantive reason. ❋ Unknown (2009)
As a result, there are virtually no laws, leaving all beings to pursue what pleasures or activities they desire so long as they don't disturb others; rare severe abrogations are dealt with via isolation and enforced robotic supervision. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Thus, Islam was illogical in proclaiming the superiority of Christian Law to Mosaic Law, while reversing Christian abrogations of Mosaic Law. ❋ Unknown (2007)
That the war itself is may be a fraud has not kept Bush from citing it as justification for his arrogant and arbitrary abrogations of due process of law and the other "freedoms" for which we are said to be waging this so-called "war". ❋ Unknown (2006)
But so, too, are the penalties that would exist for any abrogations of the accord. ❋ ITY National Archives (1995)
The saddest news is, that we should find our national existence, as I sometimes hear it said, depend on selling manufactured cotton at a farthing an ell cheaper than any other people -- a most narrow stand for a great nation to base itself on; a stand which, with all the corn-law abrogations conceivable, I do not think will be capable of enduring. ❋ Various (N/A)
These abrogations placed the Natives of Natal in almost the same position as the Cape Natives though without giving them the franchise. ❋ Solomon Tshekisho (1916)
There is no flaw in this logic, and in its clear lighting such abrogations of parochial and transitory human laws as may be suggested by reason and the consciousness that nobody is looking, take on the aspect of divinely appointed duties. ❋ Anatole France (1884)
A stand which, with all the Corn-law abrogations conceivable, I do not think will be capable of enduring. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)
What marvel then, that in Valapee all was legislative uproar and confusion; advance and retreat; abrogations and revivals; foundations without superstructures; nothing permanent but the island itself. ❋ Herman Melville (1855)
A quick search for "glitch video" and the internet cornucopia delivers: exploding heads, weird human-animal hybrids, insane abrogations of the laws of physics, strange journeys through the worlds beyond the polygons. ❋ Darren Zenko (2010)
Far from the capital, abrogations are being enacted without comment from the wider international community. ❋ Unknown (2010)
D'Ambrosio's account is often concise and illuminating, especially concerning the U.S. government's repeated abrogations of promises made to Native Americans, which D'Ambrosio correctly portrays as a legal -- as opposed to a civil rights -- concern. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review - handed down in August and made public in January - is not a blank check for presidential power, nor does it legitimize the abrogations of personal liberty that the Bush administration embraced in its so-called war on terror. ❋ Unknown (2009)
