Sentences with phrase «abolition society»

That piety guided him to simplify his business and family life so that they would serve the «concern» that grew upon him until he became a one - man abolition society traversing the colonies to act for justice in the case of slaves.65

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17 Sept To Representatives of British Society in Westminster Hall: Allow me also to express my esteem for [your] Parliament... your common law tradition [etc., etc.]... Yet... if the moral principles underpinning the democratic process are themselves determined by nothing more solid than social consensus, then the fragility of the process becomes all too evident... [e.g. the credit crunch lacked] solid ethical foundations... [whereas the British - inspired] abolition of the slave trade [did not].

But despite the real gains in social morality that came in the wake of the abolition of the slave trade, despite the rise in the status of women, despite the benefits that came from the enactment of child - labor laws and the establishment of the welfare state, did not the nineteenth century also bequeath to us those proposed «solutions» to social ills that led to mass starvation in Russia and China, to the utopian nightmares of communism and fascism, to wars unending, and ¯ in those societies that actually managed to abolish most social evils ¯ to a hedonism that is undermining society from within?

The electronic abolition of space united separate societies into a «global village.»

Using additional criteria, (which we will discuss later), Webb asserts that the redemptive movement of Scripture supports the abolition of slavery, a more egalitarian approach to women's roles in society, and the continued condemnation of homosexual behavhior.

Antislavery societies were founded with the express purpose of bringing about the abolition of slavery.

They published an abolition newspaper, the Zion Herald, and a number of Methodist antislavery societies developed.

History: In twentieth century history, there is a section on «society and social reform, including the abolition of capital punishment, the legalisation of abortion and homosexuality, and the Race Relations Act».

The electoral system, the use of referendum on key issues, a written constitution, devolution of power and resources to the powerless in communities, cities and regions, abolition of the Lords and the end to the attacks on trade unions, charities, civil society, civil liberties and the complacency, inertia and disregard for the weakest and inequality that creates despair must be swept away.

The Electoral Reform Society has proposed the abolition of proxy voting in the UK except in special circumstances such as when the voter is abroad.

I once considered founding a society for the abolition of Schrödinger's cat from the teaching of physics, but then, how would we ever know whether we had succeeded or not?

150 years ago, Americans fought a bloody Civil War (1861 - 1865) over slavery, which ended in the abolition of slavery with the 13th Amendment to the How Tinder Accidentally Exposed Society's Inherent Racism The five - year - old dating app shed light on an uncomfortable set of stereotypes.

The abolition was reflective of an overall movement: Inspired by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) in the U.K., the ASPCA formed in New York City in 1866; three years later, the Women's Humane Society opened a shelter in Philadelphia and hired its own animal control officers.

To mark the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade, Lancashire Museums invited artist Lubaina Himid to create new work exploring Lancaster's significant role in this trade, its legacies and the issues that still have an impact on today's society

«The transformation towards a low - carbon society is therefore as much an ethical imperative as the abolition of slavery and the condemnation of child labor.»

Might that majority of society who can not afford a lawyer's advice («the problem») soon use the social media to demand the abolition of law societies?

Following the abolition of the minimum salary for trainee solicitors in August 2014, the Junior Lawyers Division have successfully championed the Law Society to consider reintroducing a recommended salary.

Indeed, if a law truly «runs afoul» of «society's basic values,» it would be reasonable to expect that society's disapproval would result in its abolition or amendment through the democratic process.

Law societies are inviting their own abolition.

Lawyer quotas & abolition of law societies.

Instead of complete abolition, a substantial partial variety is what the Clementi Report in 2004 advocated for England and Wales, i.e., give law society regulatory powers to a separate and independent agency, because they conflict with law society representative powers — powers concerning the interests of the lawyers of those law societies.

I have previously advocated that Canada's law societies are badly in need of a civil service - type national institution to advise them; see: «A2J: Preventing the Abolition of Law Societies by Curing the Defects in their Management Structure: A Solution to the Unaffordable Legal Services Problem.»

Therefore, the best thing that could happen to the population, the courts, and the legal profession itself, would be the abolition of law societies ASAP.

Albeit, they will provide law societies but a temporary respite before abolition by the former, or emasculation by the latter.

Given the great power of communication that all people now have to talk about the damage caused to their lives by the lack of a lawyer's advice, the law societies are inviting their own abolition, or substantial changes in their management structure — see for example, The Clementi Report (U.K., 2004).

So, whether by way of just demands for their abolition, or commercially engendered shrinkage of lawyer numbers, law societies are fated to be greatly reduced in purpose, power, and prestige, by reason of management by part - time amateurs (i.e., 19th century benchers unable to cope with the «access to justice» problems («A2J problems») of a 21st century law society).