Sentences with phrase «best democratic traditions»

CCD supports the decisions of the federal government to retain a prohibition on assisted suicide and euthanasia, which was reached after careful consideration of the views of Canadians and in the best democratic traditions of this country.

Not exact matches

He holds simultaneously that existing democratic ideas, traditions, and institutions were often championed in actual history by those who were non-Christians or even anti-Christian; and yet that, in building better than they knew, such persons were often generating in human temporal life constructs whose foundations were not only consistent with Jewish and Christian convictions about the realities of ethical and political life, but in a sense dependent on them.

To say that nothing whatever has come out of that discussion is to make nonsense out of all the great moral traditions — Stoic, Buddhist, humanistic, or democratic, as well as Christian.

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.

While the governor broke with tradition to boost his party - mates this year, he qualified his support by requiring «good Democrats» who received his endorsement to fill out a questionnaire agreeing to Democratic politics on his terms.

I read an excellent piece by a Scottish academic in a recent New Statesman and he argued well that Scotland had quite a social democratic tradition but that Scottish Labour Party deserted this swallowing New Labour hook, line and sinker so the SNP were happy to fill a popular void.

Our definitions of democratic freedom and how to achieve it derive from different intellectual and moral traditions, as do our beliefs about what's worth learning, what counts as achievement, and, most important, what kind of school is best for children and society.

The moral imperative for the NJDOE, the NJ Legislature, and for individual school districts should be to act in the best interests of New Jersey children, and that means treating students humanely if their parents choose to participate in the democratic tradition of dissent.

Drawing from the work of educators across the country, the book demonstrates that manageable standards — when married to practical approaches to instruction and assessment — can prepare students to perform well on state tests while preserving the democratic traditions of U.S. education.

Now I'm sure there are some who would say, «Well... that's just how they do things in post-Soviet Russia; a country without a democratic tradition.»