Sentences with phrase «features of a democratic society»

We also agree today on many basic features of a democratic society: the right to vote, the right to due process of law, the right to free speech.
O'Neill framed her talk around the complicated relationship between the rights to privacy and free press, emphasising that the debate between these two key features of democratic societies fails to adequately show how claims of privacy and calls for press freedom are to be weighed against one another if and when they come into conflict.

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He is featured in the Facing History resource, «Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age» which deeply explores the role of journalism in a democratic society.
More broadly, it seems clear that lawyers are important protectors of rights and freedoms and that independence from the state is arguably fundamental feature of a free and democratic society.
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