Sentences with phrase «danquah political tradition»

Opinion: Alberta's ban on B.C. wine is a declaration of war — and Canada's political tradition suggests that's where this is now headed

That is usually the case with organizations grouping nations with widely different levels of development, different geo - political realities and different political traditions.

Were we to get enough Americans to appreciate the teachings of the Founders, and of the American political tradition (APT) more generally, they would become far more moderate and judicious in their voting.

The fact that I attempt, very carefully, to show how a Christian public philosophy needs to take into account the contending views of various Christians» as well as our entire liberal / conservative political tradition» does not weaken my appeal for something more fully, integrally, and distinctively Christian.

With such a commitment to a genuine «pluralism of communities» (in Robert Nisbet's phrase), we would not treat our inheritance with contempt by insisting that our political tradition has always been headed for self - destruction.

Thus the particular question that has been at the heart of a lot of our religious liberty cases in the past few years — the question of whether institutions in the corporate form are entitled to religious liberty — is not a new question for our political tradition, and the answer that tradition has often offered it is not always friendly to the cause of contemporary traditionalists.

The law can help us sustain the room we need to find those solutions, and our noble political tradition can reinforce the argument for freedom understood as chosen virtue.

In agreement with most nonteleological expressions in the liberal political tradition, this theory affirms that rights articulate a universal or natural moral law; but, against the persisting weight of the modern natural law tradition, the universal right to general emancipation is not bound to the assertion that human rights are independent of any inclusive good.

In A Necessary Evil Wills marshals his usual blend of careful scholarship and vigorous polemic to make a case against the strong streak of «antigovernmentalism» that marks the American political tradition.

Neither the political tradition of realism, with its sharp focus on narrowly conceived national interest, nor a utopian universalism uninformed by the hard practicalities of military capability offers significant conceptual help.

As a white, middle - class woman living in California, rarely have I faced real pain as a result of complex systems, and strongly held societal, cultural or political traditions and beliefs.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

When the election concludes, there will be a great deal of discussion about the blessings of democracy, our grand political tradition, and the precious freedoms Americans have» all of which we should be thankful for.

Our American political tradition begins with a revolutionary assertion of civic equality — a rejection of custom and heritage in favor of a brighter future, a novus ordo seclorum.

«Similarly, the text neglects to mention that the Founders were reacting against several of the crucial elements of the moral, legal, and political tradition associated with Moses and the Ten Commandments.»

Indeed, as Mother Teresa recently reminded us in her plea to the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade, this understanding is at the core of the American political tradition as expressed by our nation's founders in the Declaration of Independence.

Isaiah Berlin thus deserves considerable credit for identifying the perversion of liberty that was at the root of the totalitarian project, and for defending a concept of liberty - as - noninterference that, in setting legal limits to coercive state power, has deep resonances in the American political tradition.

The other element that is very important in the environment for the development of Catholicism along the lines that I have suggested is the presence of a liberal, democratic political tradition.

Recovering Self - Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law edited by Michael A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collett Catholic University Press, 403 pages, $ 35.95 paper An extremely useful collection of informed examinations of how natural law theory can constructively engage American legal and political traditions.

The Italian left, heirs to the strongest communist party in Western Europe and a powerful Catholic political tradition, is struggling to adjust its values and political agenda to the new needs and constrains of the modern globalised world.

Reform of the constitutional architecture of the UK state over the past two decades has adhered to a conservative orthodoxy based on an enduring belief in the British Political Tradition: the redistribution of power is negotiated between the state and sub-state national and regional elites rather than with the British people.

For all the talk of radicalism and «rupture», Thatcherism was an ideology of restoration: consonant with the ideology and ideas of the Conservative Party and the intellectual tradition of the Establishment Centre - Right and strand of thought within the British Political Tradition.

The GJA expects that the NPP, as the ruling party and political tradition founded on the tenets of democracy, will whip its supporters into towing that philosophical line.»

«The coalition parties can not claim full credit for the reforms presented here,» he says - Jack Straw, Robin Cook, Lord Wakeham's royal commission, etc - «it's clear the reforms have a long bloodline that include all of our parties and political traditions».

By the same token, I still believe that we need to rediscover and reinterpret the three overlapping political traditions — conservative, liberal and socialist or social - democratic — that have woven in and out of our history for well over a century; and that we have at least as much to learn from our complex religious traditions as from political ones.

We each have different political traditions.

«a political tradition that goes back from today's Climate Camp through anti-war, anti-colonial, and anti-slavery movements, suffragism, Chartism, and the Levellers during the English Civil War.»

By republicanism, I mean a broad political tradition or ideology that is centred on the republic, understood as a political regime of self - governing citizens.

Will: for someone not trained in political theory, Blond certainly doesn't seem averse to making sweeping generalisations about intellectual and political traditions in political theory.

Such instruments of deliberative democracy may be distinctly «foreign» and at odds with the elitist British political tradition, with the culture and rituals of a traditional power - hoarding democracy and with the predilection for «muddling through» that defined British politics in the twentieth century.

I suggested that, to be connected to its own political tradition, progressive conservatism must do two things.

Let me reiterate, once again, that we are the heirs of the noblest and most enduring political tradition in Ghanaian politics.

But I don't think politicians should claim patriotism exclusively for one party or one political tradition.

In a major departure from political tradition, the budget deal was cut without the final input from Malloy on the details.

All this is an exercise in power hoarding par excellence, in the finest British political tradition.

But with the rich heritage of our own political tradition - that strand of Conservatism that celebrates the local, the civic and the social.

Wes Streeting, the MP for Ilford North, said: «Labour can not transform lives in opposition and we can not surrender to the political tradition that would keep us there for generations to come.

He says the reforms have «a long bloodline that includes all of our parties and our political traditions».

Made famous by Bob Graham, the state's former Democratic governor and senator, work days are a political tradition in the Sunshine State.

United by monarchy, history, language, heritage and political tradition, we have much more in common with, say, a Canberran or a Torontonian than we do with an Athenian or a Roman.

Work days are a political tradition in the Sunshine State.

But with the rich heritage of our own political tradition — that strand of Conservatism that celebrates the local, the civic and the social.

Confutian tradition is the opposite philosophically, and political tradition is that of strong central leaders (or several regional squabbling to become a strong central one).

But I believe my main point stands: conservatives stand with tradition, whether that be political tradition (for political conservatives) or social tradition (or social conservatives) or both (typical US «conservatives»).

US political tradition of free speech greatly differred from the authoritarian approach towards extremist ideologies in Europe.

He claimed that Daniel Bugri Naabu is better placed within the Dombo - Busia - Danquah political tradition in the Northern Region than any of his competitors.

Our political traditions are different.

We are the heirs of the noblest and most enduring political tradition in Ghanaian politics.

Caucuses are a grand political tradition, providing an intimate democratic experience.

Ed Miliband, for Labour, said: «It takes a long time to establish an honourable political tradition.