Sentences with phrase «dangers for democracy»

It adds: «In responding to the terrorist threat, it is essential to keep a sense of proportion, for other dangers for a democracy like Britain lurk in the shadow of terrorism.

There are dangers for democracy in a system like that.

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On the other hand such personalism iuris divini, which despite its importance can not here be proved theologically, is a principle of resistance against the well - known dangers and shortcomings of democracy in large societies where self - government by the people, for example, by plebiscite is no longer possible and the representation which takes its place be - comes more and moe autonomous.

First he examines whether the emergency abrogation of rights and liberties tends to preserve or endanger democracy; he concludes that limited abrogations, for the duration of an emergency, can serve to preserve while not posing a lasting danger.

In that regard, any ruling party that is powerful of it's own - i.e., has intrinsic power not derived from voters; a power to stick to ruling despite the changing desires of people - is antidemocratic; so a «democracy through strength» is a danger that might (not always, but a possibility) turn into a dictatorship; and a «democracy through weakness» which is unable to do so and needs to re-estabilish it's power (and right to exist) at every single elections is a preferrable system of governance that would pay more attention towards their people, and be better for the people (as opposed to their own nomenclature).

Africa has long suffered from the politics of the Big Man, and the danger is that South Africa will eventually turn against democracy for the easy «solution» of such a saviour.

John Stuart Mill, who spent his life campaigning for liberalism and democracy, realised before anyone else that it had its dangers as well.

If we still subscribe to the importance of the golden thread — that proof beyond reasonable doubt in criminal justice is a core value of freedom and democracy — then of greater importance than myth - busting on victim typology is the continuing, but now statutorily discredited, need for warnings about the dangers of false rape allegations.

He has warned against the dangers of information filtering, and believes that the use of algorithms to profile people to show them information tailored to personal tastes is bad for democracy.