Sentences with phrase «for federalists»

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Deneen's immediate source for the Founding = Locke = THE FEDERALIST = individualistic techno - nihilism is what Paul Seaton astutely called the anti-Founderism of his brilliant and wonderful teacher Carey McWilliams.

And Amar and others such as his colleague Bruce Ackerman (leaders of what Wills terms the «Yale school of nullification») have been arguing that the Federalists were not altogether successful, leaving room in our constitutional government for exceptional moments of popular intervention on behalf of a fundamental reorientation of American politics.

One reason, maybe, we should teach THE FEDERALIST is to inculcate in our students a VENERATION for the Constitution.

Mr. Ceaser is so impressed by the argument for veneration that FEDERALIST 49 appears on the license plate of one of his big cars.

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.

One of the great merits of Banning's meticulous work is to show the divisions that existed among Federalists even as they came together in the movement for a new Constitution.

I, for one, am glad that Peter puts THE FEDERALIST more on the LIBERAL EDUCATION than CIVIC EDUCATION list.

The least we can say is that JUDICIAL REVIEW as a tool for containing the relatively tame national legislature described in FEDERALIST 10 is not a prominent theme in THE FEDERALIST.

Most of the suspicious antifederalists were pushing for a Bill of Rights, while the federalists, feeling that rights had been assured in the unamended Constitution, opposed it.

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.»

Thus, the «Federalists» «anti-majoritarian bias, and their commitment to neutrality between competing conceptions of the good life, lays the groundwork for a Supreme Court whose commitment to such vague notions as «libertarian dignity under law» makes it the supreme umpire in American life.

And so we learn, for example, from THE FEDERALIST or from Hobbes that the Athenian assembly was filled with vain and contentious men, men animated by sometimes cruel and often violent aristocratic pretensions.That «democracy» did have the characters or the institutions to support a just and stable middle - class way of life.

Blair's latest intervention came as David Cameron faced criticism for having attacked the centre - left's preferred candidate Jean - Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg federalist.

If it is impossible for ordinary Conservative opinion to sit with mainstream European progressive Federalists and Socialists then I am not surprised, we are not like them and if this means there is no democracy for us in Europe then I daresay you are rejoicing.

On Tuesday, retiring Conservative MEP Christopher Beazley announced he was seeking full membership of the federalist European Peoples» Party group in Brussels for his final couple of months there.

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Federalists will often make the case that we should let a thousand flowers bloom, sit back, and wait for the cross-pollination to occur: if states, districts, or schools apply test - based accountability and it works, then others will willingly adopt those best practices.

We shouldn't trade our federalist birthright for a national - curriculum mess of pottage.

We don't have major federal funding earmarked for schools, but we do have equalization payments that (I believe) are more robust than the US federalist model.

«Then we're back to a totally federalist system of education,» he added, noting that prior to NCLB, education policy was, for the most part, the sole dominion of states.

Muhlenberg was a «low» Federalist, not as all - out for central power as the Hamiltonian Federalists, but loyal to President Washington.

World Federalists believe that the environmental crisis facing planet earth is a global problem and therefore calls for a «global» solution — a worldwide United Nations Environmental Agency with the power to make its decisions stick.

One of the noteworthy early calls for the creation of a global environmental agency appeared in an advertisement sponsored by the World Association of World Federalists (WAWF) in the January - February 1972 issue of The Humanist, published by the American Humanist Association.

For the European Union, to the continued chagrin of the more federalist among the Europhiles, its main Treaties represent such an «other international agreement».

In the ratification debate, both Federalists and anti-Federalists shared the view that judges were not to be «punished for want of judgment.»

He says, «If ever a topic were ripe for 50 - state, federalist incubation, this is it.»

Putting to one side the issue whether this is a matter for Congressional action in the first place — good federalists would have cause to insist that punitive damage issues should be matters for state - level policymaking — the suggestions Professor Owen makes seem prudent, and enter into territory already explored in some jurisdictions.