Why can't those MPs just be honest and admit they don't
care about democracy and only want changes which are to their advantage?
One of the great
things about democracy is the fact that ordinary people can change history through the simple act of voting.
Similarly, many schools absorb British values into existing school practices, such as
learning about democracy via the school council.
The psychologists knew that what they found caused discomfort and challenged old - fashioned
ideas about democracy, but scientists - they said - could not be held responsible for their findings.
In addition we aim to incorporate a range of opportunities to educate
students about democracy through the personal development curriculum.
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We have created a public
rhetoric about democracy anchored in technological mathematics, not in human understanding or cultural interpretation — not even in civil discourse.
In a previous article, I talked about a new research project that aims to fill some of the gaps in our
knowledge about democracy promotion.
Our curriculum experts have assembled a great collection of resources to help you teach the upcoming election cycle and get your students
excited about our democracy!
Second, it's
about democracy as we'll be asking them that at least half their members are dues paying.
Whilst Plaid Cymru will be examining these proposals closely and look forward to being at the heart of
debates about democracy in our country, we believe that decisions about elections in Wales should be made in Wales and not in London.
«I will not take lectures
about democracy from a government elected on only 24 % of those eligible to vote - and only 10 % of those eligible to vote in Scotland - much less, of course, than the proposed thresholds that they wish to impose on strike ballots.»
If they were really
worried about democracy, they would of course be complaining that the basis of the government's energy policies — environmentalism — had not been tested by the democratic process, and that climate sceptics are routinely excluded from the public debate.
Here's what Plato
wrote about democracy almost 2350 years ago: ``... do you notice how tender they make the citizen's soul, so that if someone proposes anything that smacks in any way of slavery, they are irritated and can't stand it?
Invade other peoples» countries to
bring about democracy when the chief of state is not elected in their own country.
The very same leaders who love to go to third countries and
lecture about democracy and human rights now are trying to disregard the voter's choice and transform the EU into a «banana republic».
Surely, it is perfectly intellectually credible to support a majoritarian electoral system: it just weights different things
about democracy differently.
«But the other reason why I think it's unfortunate... we really should be talking about the substantive
issues about our democracy.»
I'm not
sure about the democracy bit in the UK... the draconian measures taken by the Tory - LDs on such a mandate, looks like a neoliberal coup d'etat to me.
In this edition of the Harvard EdCast, West, at HGSE last fall for the Askwith Forum, «Spiritual Blackout, Imperial Meltdown, and Prophetic Fightback,»
speaks about democracy, the importance of activism, and the difference between schooling and deep education.
Given such obstacles, what's
striking about democracy at Atlas isn't how far it has progressed — we're talking baby steps here — but how much the concept has already become part of the cultural woodwork.
Even before the recent U.S. presidential election, Canadian governments were concerned about the weakened ability of the news media to inform the
public about their democracy.
Nothing about democracy in his statements, it's all about economic freedom pereptrated by the likes of Hayek, Flannigan, Harper and those crazies pushing their propaganda at the Fraser Institute.
Yet what is most consistently
communicated about democracy in the late 20th century is what Edmund Burke and our founders would identify as a «vulgar appeal» to those appetites that, given free reign, make society impossible.