Sentences with phrase «experiment in democracy»

Importantly, this was not an experiment in art; it was an experiment in democracy led by artists (primarily Phyllis Yampolsky), to which not everyone was amenable.

The day that the free press ceases to be «free,» is the day that this big experiment in democracy fails.

Olivier also seems to be a stand - in for a young United States and its experiment in democracy, and while Parrot remains optimistic about the country's prospects, Olivier sardonically predicts a future for it which, in fact, has largely come to pass.

Education is going through the biggest change in the history of America's experiment in democracy.

The egregiousness of bald - faced racism, in all of its ugliness, must be rejected and replaced with the kindness, solidarity and sense of togetherness that has made this great American experiment in democracy a shining example for all the world to see and admire for over two centuries.

The former governor wrote those words in «The New York Idea: An Experiment in Democracy,» which was published in 1994 — the year he lost his bid for a fourth term to a little - known Republican state senator named George Pataki.

Council Member Ritchie Torres would like to invite you to participate in «an exciting new experiment in democracy called Participatory Budgeting» as his office put it, if you are one of his constituents.

Then, Dolan argues, Carroll understood the importance of creating a «republican» form of Catholicism in which the Church would absorb the new national experiment in democracy into its own internal life.

Well before the collapse, and even during the turbulent years that brought the Weimar Republic's failed experiment in democracy to its disastrous conclusion, groups of engaged intellectuals and activists had been planning a new order.

Except for our experiment in democracy, each of our plans lasted for at least two to five years.

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Upon its vigorous defense rests the hope of novus ordo seclorum ¯ the hope that this experiment in representative democracy may be a new order for the ages.

If one doesn't believe it, however, he is in conflict not merely with the argument of To Empower People but with the assumption of self - governance upon which the American experiment in republican democracy is constituted.

The American Experiment has been a great adventure in democracy.

If the American experiment in representative democracy is not in conversation with biblical religion, it is not in conversation with what the overwhelming majority of Americans profess to believe is the source of morality.

Given this intractable complexity, democracy in India was an extraordinarily ambitious political experiment.

After experiencing London's version of social turmoil, the Israeli variant seems to me to be a rather civilized experiment in direct democracy.

In this process of re-imagining democracy many came to associate it with innovation, with new ideas, experiences and experiments, and saw new possibilities opened for them.

Maine is about to embark on an unprecedented experiment in American democracy — ranked choice voting — and Paul LePage — the state's belligerent, foul - mouthed and polarizing governor, is a big part of the reason why.

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.

Director of IPPR North Ed Cox explores the opportunities and threats of an experiment in local democracy

Just as we are «crowd sourcing» the funding to try and help us hold this innovative experiment in deliberative democracy, we are also «crowd sourcing» the design of the debate.

Experiments should also be embraced in the field of democracy.

The parallels between Grace's mission and the American «experiment» in Iraq, that is, creating a functioning democracy among people who have never known self - government (and perhaps don't want to know it), without institutional infrastructure, are obvious.

Experimenting with, and experiencing, democracy in Education, was published in June 2012.

In a series of tweets posted Tuesday morning, Thomas Joscelyn, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, noted that «Al Qaeda has been experimenting with sophisticated explosives that can be brought on planes, avoiding X-Ray detection, for some time.»