Sentences with phrase «coequal centers»

Any valid exposition of humanism must begin here, for it is on the foundation of this principle and its corollaries — the humanocentric predicament and individuals as coequal centers of freedom / authority — that humanism establishes its methodological policies and builds its ethics and epistemology.

He disputes the claims of nullifiers that the federal union was a compact between sovereign states, argues that the founders sought coordination between the branches of government rather than a stalemate between competitive, coequal centers of power, and offers a strict construction of the Second Amendment as an authorization for state militias rather than a charter for the private ownership of assault rifles by potential revolutionaries.