The value of constitutional democracy lies ultimately in its capacity to serve and secure the common good, which demands, above all, the protection of fundamental human rights. (firstthings.com)
In constitutional democracies, people tend to think in terms of dichotomies — faith and reason, church and state, public and private, executive and legislature. (firstthings.com)
For the deterioration of higher education throughout the United States in the past several generations has contributed mightily to our contemporary cultural crisis, and the cultural crisis, by depleting the nation's reserves of republican virtue, has in turn produced a political crisis in which constitutional democracy itself is now at risk. (firstthings.com)