Sentences with phrase «class citizenry»

We / I want to know how it is that you communally have decided to treat your paying constituency as second - class citizens for the betterment of your chosen first - class citizenry, being those who pay nothing into your coffers.

As for Proposition 8, Smith calls its passage «truly tragic» and says it «formalizes a second - class citizenry among gay and lesbian people.»

I realize that if everyone hopped on a bike, like I do every morning on my way to work, we probability wouldn't have created a large middle - class citizenry who got a sizable paycheck going to the factory and stamping out huge metal behemoths of one sort or another, year after year.

The right's willingness to maintain second - class citizenry isn't new.

Let's just call the stalling tactic for what it is: sustaining a second - class citizenry is a pillar of conservative politics.

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Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

Traditionally, when a nation used a bicameralism system, the first, or lower, chamber was intended to represent the lower classes of the citizenry.

Any increased usage of Toqueville's and others» idea of the importance of virtue being indispensable in both the citizenry and the leadership class?

They live in a desolate settlement built of stacked shoddy boxcars complete with black market baby sales, dry - lipped, sandy - haired beggars, and its own class of elite citizenry.

If 15,000,000 less - than - literate students are not enough to move it to action, let's hope, for the sake of our children, that the looming threat of second - class economic citizenry in the 21st century does the trick.

But a growing number of serious people, including some elected officials (hardly a class of citizenry eager to be branded space cadets), are stating publicly that it's time for the nation and the world to step up preparations for a day that will inevitably come.

Unfortunately putting a PR spin on explaining a cheap - energy / debt - based economy to the citizenry is not the right approach for the political class, and they won't go near it with a 10 - ft pole.

Now and in the coming years, the United States will be able to provide the most cushion to its citizenry (at least, to the upper classes) from the dangers of climate chaos (of course, indigenous people, low - income people, and people of color, will continue to be more disposable).