Sentences with phrase «best federalist»

Putting to one side the issue whether this is a matter for Congressional action in the first place — good federalists would have cause to insist that punitive damage issues should be matters for state - level policymaking — the suggestions Professor Owen makes seem prudent, and enter into territory already explored in some jurisdictions.

Not exact matches

May's election results suggest that the favorite may well be Jean - Claude Juncker, a former prime minister of Luxembourg and an old - school European federalist, who Merkel initially backed.

Italy's federalist and Eurosceptic Lega Nord and Noi con Salvini are enjoying rapidly growing support as well.

Even FEDERALIST 49 might be understood to be a bit too ironic about it, by saying straight out the «veneration which time bestows on everything,» whether it's really good or not.

I know many who have been made into quasi-libertarian radical federalists by this narrative — after all, if we lower the stakes, surely the fights will grow less vicious — others, including MacIntyre himself, recommend the founding of autonomous communities with a shared vision of what a good life entails.

THE FEDERALIST makes it all too clear that the connection between being old and recalcitrant and being good isn't reasonable.

If it can be shown, after all, that the founding Federalists were opposed to any government that promoted a particular conception of the good life, might we not then say that Laurence Tribe's and Eleanor Smeal's defense of «reproductive freedom» as a constitutional right is consistent with the principles of Hamilton, Madison, and Jay?

Thus, the «Federalists» «anti-majoritarian bias, and their commitment to neutrality between competing conceptions of the good life, lays the groundwork for a Supreme Court whose commitment to such vague notions as «libertarian dignity under law» makes it the supreme umpire in American life.

Such a contrast was stated most vigorously by the early Federalists but was in some form or other accepted by Jeffersonian Democrats as well.

Cameron had caved in to a delegation of «Better off out» Conservative MPs, who said that the EPP was too federalist» Instead, they insisted, an alternative alliance comprising «real» conservatives, especially from the 2004 EU intake in Central and Eastern Europe, could be formed.

While not necessarily the best policy, accommodating experiments in the «laboratories of democracy» represents smart politics: it fits with Republican notions of states» rights and federalist self - determination, but is also consistent with the overwhelming support cannabis legalisation enjoys among the Democratic base.

They have also shown that by putting some of their better candidates and strongest efforts into opposing Eurosceptic Conservatives in seats the Conservatives can win, they may give us more federalist MPs by tipping the balance in favour of the pro-EU Liberal Democrat or Labour candidate.

A better path forward would appreciate the federalist nature of our education system.

Federalists will often make the case that we should let a thousand flowers bloom, sit back, and wait for the cross-pollination to occur: if states, districts, or schools apply test - based accountability and it works, then others will willingly adopt those best practices.

A national purpose is not a federal program... I actually think that the best way to do this is to use the federalist model.

The best «federalist» approach may be to follow the doctrine of subsidiarity and leave key decisions in the hands of parents.