Sentences with phrase «federalist self»

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.

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So the reason THE FEDERALIST is LIBERAL EDUCATION is that's a great tool for teaching how to follow partisan but deep political arguments in tough — but not that tough (each FEDERALIST is pretty self - contained and short, for one thing)-- texts.

Bork, Arthur contends, is far afield precisely because he grounds his jurisprudence in a moral skepticism and positivism that denies «claims of natural rights» as discovered, for example, in «Jefferson's ringing endorsement of self - evident rights in the Declaration of Independence and the Federalists» insistence on separation of powers and the adoption of the Bill of Rights.»

Erica L. Green writes in the New York Times that, after Secretary DeVos» speech to state chiefs last week, «policy experts and observers» have called the speech the «ultimate display of a frustrated federalist,» and an «example of a self - described education reformer wrestling with the limits of her influence in an agency whose power she wants to curtail.»

The philosophy required to sustain a judgment like this no longer lives, even among the institutions, where, ironically, it is self - proclaimed federalists who have embraced Brexit and Article 50 most wholeheartedly.