Sentences with phrase «constitutional democracy»

The value of constitutional democracy lies ultimately in its capacity to serve and secure the common good, which demands, above all, the protection of fundamental human rights.

In constitutional democracies, people tend to think in terms of dichotomies — faith and reason, church and state, public and private, executive and legislature.

For the deterioration of higher education throughout the United States in the past several generations has contributed mightily to our contemporary cultural crisis, and the cultural crisis, by depleting the nation's reserves of republican virtue, has in turn produced a political crisis in which constitutional democracy itself is now at risk.

The dark irony of American constitutional democracy is that our judges» whose special responsibility it is to preserve the core democratic principle of equality before the law» are the ones whose edicts have betrayed this principle.

One of the most striking differences between constitutional democracies and tyrannies in our time pertains to certain habits of mind.

Xi has pushed China's universities to enforce ideological conformity and avoid discussing constitutional democracy, civil society and judicial independence.

The new Social Studies Frameworks for College, Career, and Civic Life (C3s), outlines the requirements teachers must follow to prepare students to participate in a productive constitutional democracy:

«The students were mesmerized and very surprised to see how constitutional law can be used in real life to protect institutions, to protect citizens» rights and to protect constitutional democracy,» Wang says.

«This is not the way we behave in the world's leading constitutional democracy,» says Norman Eisen, special counsel and ethics adviser to President Barack Obama between 2009 and 2011.

Indeed, the list of Third World governments committed to the goal of shaping the demographic pattern of their societies seems to cover the political spectrum, including not only dictatorships and one - party states (Haiti, Indonesia), but also monarchies (Morocco, Nepal) and a number of genuine constitutional democracies (such as Barbados and Botswana).

In practice, the American scheme of constitutional democracy invests the courts with ultimate authority to decide what the Constitution is to mean.

Today, as our citizens enjoy peace, security and freedom of speech; and expect transparent, non-violent electoral processes at all levels of government, Ghana is also inspiring other nations, such as Guinea - Bissau to maintain a consistent constitutional democracy.

However talking Nigeria down has been a perennial Buhari attitude since he took office and perhaps reveal his real bias and resentment of not just our enterprising and vocal youth, but indeed our educated, middle class, Westernized populace and our secular constitutional democracy.

«The success of Nigerian constitutional democracy ultimately depends upon an informed citizenry.

The Summer of 1787 traces the struggles within the Philadelphia Convention as the delegates hammered out the charter for the world's first constitutional democracy.

For the majority of Canada's population, without lawyers, the constitution is a paper tiger, and Canada is not a true constitutional democracy.

Constitutional democracy began to resemble its present form when, at the turn of the 18th Century, Parliament revolted against the system of press censorship and monopolistic control over the book trade and passed the first Copyright Act, which sought to create a competitive market system based on limited copyrights.

Constitutional democracy reached another milestone when in 1623 Parliament passed the Statute of Monopolies, and took away the Crown's power to grant various kinds of monopolies, commissions, grants, licenses, charters, and letters patents, often used to tax the public while avoiding Parliamentary scrutiny.

The fact that Canada and the United States ostensibly are constitutional democracies signifies that «the rule of law» means indigenous territorial sovereignty continues to bind all courts of those countries unless and until the constitutions have been amended by the people, by constitutional legislation, pursuant to the amendment formulas made express and explicit in each constitution.

«Constitutional democracy means that institutions have different jobs to do and Parliament has its job to do, which is a very important job — to put before Parliament and vote on laws in accordance with the views of the government of the day and their representatives.

[2] This case demonstrates the operation and application of fundamental aspects of the Rule of Law, a cornerstone of Canadian constitutional democracy.

In constitutional democracy, the powers of the rulers are regulated by legal means so that the rights of the minorities and the weak are protected and respected.

The dark irony of American constitutional democracy is that our judges — whose special responsibility it is to preserve the core democratic principle of equality before the law — are the ones whose edicts have betrayed this principle.

Xi has pushed China's universities to enforce ideological conformity and avoid discussing constitutional democracy, civil society and judicial independence.

The new Social Studies Frameworks for College, Career, and Civic Life (C3s), outline the requirements teachers must follow to prepare students to participate in a productive constitutional democracy:

The Republic of Ghana is a presidential constitutional democracy, located in West Africa along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean.

Analysts says Ghana's poll could help salvage the tarnished image of constitutional democracy in Africa, after last year's flawed elections in Kenya and Zimbabwe and military coups in Mauritania and Guinea.

You've talked about threats to constitutional democracy and echoes of Josef Stalin.

«What they decide will determine whether we still live in a constitutional democracy.»

In so doing, they founded a constitutional democracy, among the most enduring history has known.

The traditional system possessed one specific form which, just as a matter of political mechanics, did more than anything else to convert a constitutional democracy into semi-democratic constitutionalism.

Johnson fulfills Hume's prediction that constitutional democracies could harness private interests in service of the common good, but Caro also shows us the devastation, both public and private, which is wreaked by wicked men as they struggle for power.

I said nothing in my review, not a single word, about what exactly the judicial role should be in our constitutional democracy.

And if we could reach down to the root of the mayor's error, we would have some understanding of how religion actually works in a constitutional democracy.

With the decline of hereditary monarchies over the last two centuries, dictatorship and constitutional democracy have become the two principal forms of government around the world.

Constitutional democracy in the United States has survived a civil war, a great depression, and two world wars.

I'm not in the business of political analysis, but I really don't think the choice was between being a banana republic and a constitutional democracy.

The sovereign state, even the constitutional democracy that's supposed to recognize and strive to support the inalienable rights of its citizens, nonetheless holds the power to kill its citizens with direct intent and thereby to alienate from them an essential right, which is to continue living.

This is a constitutional democracy you idiot.

Ibrahim Maibushira, a Nigerian scholar, explained that the Nigerian government has a constitutional democracy that exactly replicates the American model.

Neither side has commented on the possibility that we are coming to the natural (historical) end of the originating system, the constitutional democracy (republic), where its strength was interpreted as «the eschatological tension left over from the Puritan Revolution.»