Sentences with phrase «formed by democracy»

This vision was not shared by the American members who had been formed by democracy.

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Properly speaking, a democratic constitution provides the one set of legal prescriptions that must be explicitly accepted by all citizens as participants in the political discourse, including discourse about whether the actual constitution is in fact democratic and, indeed, whether democracy itself is the proper form of the political association.

He is on record saying that democracy is a terrible form of government, unless it is run by his kind of Christians.

The democracy of desire can not provide a satisfactory basis for the criticism of undemocratic forms of social class, for it is infected by the same subpersonal assumptions which render these modes of human classification offensive.

Democratic forms theoretically give equal political power to all citizens, and at times the institutions of democracy do serve to check the control of government by the rich.

Then, by his third distinction, Maritain makes clear both that Christian faith can not be made subservient to democracy as a philosophy of life and that democracy can not claim to be the only form of regime demanded by Christian belief.

Moreover, he means a set of principles not exhausted by any one form of regime, and yet capable of distinguishing false from true ideas of democracy.

The more seriously religious forms of Judaism, especially the Orthodox, have yet to demonstrate that there are authentically religious warrants by which publicly assertive Judaism supports, rather than threatens, modern democracy.

In «American Pie,» Cantor details the careers of Charles Homer Haskins and Joseph Strayer, both students of administrative history and advocates of statist rationalism and both participants in the American institutions formed by the Wilsonian vision of social democracy.

After considering several forms of such response, Ignatieff concludes by returning once again to the promise offered by democracy, arguing that the ultimate answer to terrorism must be persuasion: «We must be able to defend ourselves» with force of arms, but even more with force of argument.

Thus The Lesser Evil is, throughout, a defense of what Ignatieff understands to be the strength and superiority of democracy, both in itself as a form of government and also as a basis for dealing effectively with the threat of destruction posed by terrorism.

Democracy is form of government where the people rule by majority.

The great change we seek by means of this new constitution is to replace one form of democracy with another.

By the Aristotelian conception of the Politic Systems there are 3 fundamental political systems: the monarchy, the aristocracy and the republic, with their 3 corruption forms: the tyranny, the oligarchy and the democracy.

2) Republican freedom can extend to many (the plebeian democracy advocated by democratic republicans) or few (the plutocratic form of the oligarchic republicans), but it is always based on property and the material independence deriving from that.

The engagement of citizens in the early stages of policy discussion and formulation should become the new norm — possibly, by extending our concept of democracy beyond the trustee, and even beyond the delegate model, to a more direct form that makes innovative use of new technologies.

According to this article, Demarchy is a form of statistical representative democracy which rely on collective intelligence: Improving on the age - old model of sortition democracy, by which the...

If New Democracy and Pasok have to do a deal with one or more of the smaller political parties, with new parties being formed at a rapid rate (often by disgruntled or expelled members of New Democracy and Pasok) this will already shake the old system a little.

Not very democratic, but to end that we would need term limits and that is its own form of curtailing democracy — I can not see this changing by shuffling DNA

Since the new breed of political corruption takes the form of corporate money smothering our democracy, our club is staying true to its roots by supporting Howie Hawkins: a genuine friend of the working and middle classes,» said long time club member John Bredin.

Another group that has quickly become a real force in progressive politics across the nation is Democracy for America, http://www.democracyforamerica.com/, the PAC formed by DNC Chairman Howard Dean at the end of his Presidential Campaign and now run by his brother Jim Dean.

Over 80 % of those voters disappeared under Tony Blair's leadership — that is, by 2005, when Labour formed a government with just 35 % of the vote, the lowest share of any successful party in the history of British democracy.

Describing democracy as the best form of government in the world, Syminton noted that the policies adopted by the Osun state government in stimulating her economy and advancing the well being of her citizens remains the major characteristics of democracy in the world.

In Europe, this social liberalism is closer to European Social democracy although the original form is advocated by some liberal parties in Europe as well, as with the Beveridge Group faction within the Liberal Democrats (United Kingdom), Liberals (Sweden), Danish Social Liberal Party, the Democratic Movement (France), the Italian Republican Party or the Free Democratic Party of Germany, for example.

The nonagerian had in an earlier interview with SUNDAY PUNCH strongly criticised Tinubu and other governors of the Alliance for Democracy, a party founded by Afenifere leaders, alleging that the governors dumped the AD after gaining power and went ahead to form the Action Congress.

The proposals now before the City Council offer a stark choice for the future of the political system our great city: reaffirm the will of the people and the basic principles of democracy and good governance, by forming a charter review commission and possibly holding a special election on term limits in the spring; or cynically toss democracy aside for personal political ambition by changing term limits legislatively.

There is an alternative: by linking referendums with complementary forms of deliberative and participatory democracy, people have the opportunity to learn and discuss the real facts and issues before being required to make a final decision.

The founders of Take Back Parliament said that it was a cross party group of activists, with the first meeting to form the campaign hosted by Power2010 and operational execution undertaken by staff of Power2010, with support from Unlock Democracy.

Hence, one of the biggest challenges for the construction of Latin American subject of a new type is conditioned by these new forms of citizen participation, appropriation or reappropriation of them whose potential, both for playing domination as mechanisms for mobilizing systemic anti-social, especially digital democracy, is incalculable.

This is challenge that requires deep educational innovations of global willingness that promotes intrinsic reforms from its own ontological nature of the ecology of the intelligence; and become, ultimately, in the genesis of a cognitive democracy: composed by new transcultural and transpolitical symbiosis between the different civilizations that have been formed on the earthly homeland in the last six millenniums.

And the genius of that reporting is proved by the accuracy of the conclusions he forms — one reason that his Democracy in America has withstood the test of time: not as historical artifact but as a valuable roadmap for today's governance travelers.

For onlookers of democratic politics, rather than assuming a trajectory in which democracy (by which too many onlookers assume Western liberal democracy) prevails, it is prudent to heed the contested nature of this concept and note that among populations that are deeply divided on the separation of religion and state, if some form of democracy does arise once the dust settles it will by virtue of the democratic process likely take place in between the essentialized and polarizing categories — those «secular» and «Islamist» conceptions — that are so prevalently and popularly discussed in popular discourse and the media.

Ian Hamilton Finlay's La Rèvolution est un Bloc, 1992 — a wooden block carved with the words of the title and a central aperture reminiscent of a guillotine's lunette — refers in content and form both to advances in secular democracy and social progress, and the bloodshed and unrest brought about by the French Revolution.

2008 Selective Knowledge, Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought, Athens, Greece Zones of Conflict, Pratt Gallery, New York, NY Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, organized by Parsons School of Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, NY Crossroads: Interfaces between rock and contemporary art, Domus Artium Museum / Center of Contemporary Art of Salamanca, Spain 2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Proyecto civico / Civic Project, CECUT, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico 8 Bienal de Arte de Panamá, 8th Panama Biennial, Panama 16th Biennale of Sydney: Forms that Turn, Sydney, Australia Close Encounters, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. Freedom, Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur, The Hague, Netherlands Ohio, curated by Brad Killam and Barb Wiesen, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL Peripheral vision and collective body, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bozen, Bolzano, Italy The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Since we last spoke about monuments, Stroom den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands Jeremy Deller: Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, and Me, Aspen Art Museum.

, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, US Intervention / Decoration, Foreground Projects, Frome, Somerset, UK Ambition d'Art, Institute d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne - Lyon, FR Redone, Kröller - Müller Museum, Otterlo, NL A Bookcase for Onestar Press by Lawrence Weiner, Christophe Daviet - Thery, Paris, FR Mes Amis, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL Reconstruction # 3: Artists» Playground, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK Advancing the Experience: Robert Ryman & Urs Raussmüller, Hallen für Neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, CH Art Basel, Kino Mascotte, Basel, CH Cul - de-sac, curated by Lino Polrgato, Small Dead End Courts Around Venice, IT 2008: FREEDOM - American Sculpture, curated by Marie Jeanne de Rooij, Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur, Den Haag, NL Revolutions - Forms That Turn, Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU Slow Glass, Lisa Cooley, New York, US Thoughts On Democracy: Reinterpreting Norman Rockwell's «Four Freedoms» Poster, The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, US artCRUSH, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US NOLEFTOVERS, Kunsthalle Bern, CH Translocomotion 7th Shanghai Biennale, curated by Julian Heynan, Henk Slager, Shanghai, CN German Angst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE TEXT drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, UK Drawings on Graph Paper, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, US Pleinairism, curated by Kitty Scott, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, IS Une Grosse Caisse dans un Orchestre Symphonique, Center d'art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Variation 1, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, AT Wall Rockets: Contemporary Art Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US XX, CAG, Vancouver, CA Wall Works, Buchmann Galerie, Lugano, CH ABC No Rio 2008 Gala & Benefit Auction, Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, New York, US The Panza Collection, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, US 2 x -LSB-(2 x 20) + (2 x 2)-RSB- + 2 = XX (DESPERATELY) TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE WORLD, curated by Konrad Bitterli, Part I, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, CH, Part II, Brook Alexander Gallery, New York, US Collected Visions Modern and Contemporary Works from the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, TR This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, US Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia, curated by Marta Kuzma, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, NO Passage To The North, screening SI Annual Benefit, Swiss Institute, New York, US Posesion, curated by Montserrat and Pablo Sigg, Petra, Mexico City, MX Now You See It, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US Order.

Downtown for Democracy teamed with Marian Goodman Gallery for an installation at Frieze New York last week (above), where new limited edition prints by Paul Chan, Rashid Johnson and Richard Prince — whose 18 & Stormy (2018) is a composite portrait formed from the faces of the woman who have publically accused President Trump of sexual misconduct and adult actress Stormy Daniels (who alledges being paid off by Trump's attorney Michael Cohen).

Democracy contrasts with forms of government where power is either held by an individual, as in an absolute monarchy, or where power is held...

Socioeconomic Democracy is a practical socioeconomic system wherein there exist both some form of Universally Guaranteed Personal Income (UGPI) and some form of Maximum Allowable Personal Wealth (MAPW) limit, with both the lower bound on personal poverty and the upper bound on personal wealth set democratically by all participants of society.

To provide examples outside climate science, it would be a consensus among academic economists that «market capitalism» is by and large the most effective political economy available to humanity, and among academic political scientists that «representative democracy» is by and large the most effective form of political organisation available.

In Canada the creative tension between the rule of law and democracy — constitutional principles recognised by the Supreme Court of Canada [1]-- provides a crucible in which judicial review doctrine is formed.

By mapping the remarkable run of the icon of Justice, a woman with scales and sword, and by tracing the development of public spaces dedicated to justice — courthouses — the authors explore the evolution of adjudication into its modern form as well as the intimate relationship between the courts and democracBy mapping the remarkable run of the icon of Justice, a woman with scales and sword, and by tracing the development of public spaces dedicated to justice — courthouses — the authors explore the evolution of adjudication into its modern form as well as the intimate relationship between the courts and democracby tracing the development of public spaces dedicated to justice — courthouses — the authors explore the evolution of adjudication into its modern form as well as the intimate relationship between the courts and democracy.

«I come at this with the simple idea that our democracy was formed to be self - governing,» she said, adding that American citizens have «a right of freedom to make their own decisions — and I think that was interfered with by Russians and also others.»

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,