Sentences with phrase «illiberal citizens»

In an unfortunate liberal regime (which probably won't be liberal for long), the forms of group, family and associational life yield indifferent or even illiberal citizens.

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In an online article for the i newspaper, Laws said: «You can not be a leader of a liberal party while holding fundamentally illiberal and prejudiced views, which fail to respect our party's great traditions of promoting equality for all our citizens.

Yet as Princeton University economist Thomas Leonard documents in his book Illiberal Reformers (Princeton University Press, 2016) and former New York Times editor Adam Cohen reminds us in his book Imbeciles (Penguin, 2016), eugenics fever swept America in the early 20th century, culminating in the 1927 Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, in which the justices legalized sterilization of «undesirable» citizens.