Sentences with phrase «foundation of free society»

Freedom of choice is American and the foundation of free society.

The issue of pre-charge detention became a symbolic battle between civil liberties activists and the Home Office under Labour, with many observers noting that the government had effectively scrapped habeas corpus, considered by many constitutional historians to be the foundation of a free society.

Justice Frankfurter spoke of the «agencies of mind and spirit which may serve to gather up the traditions of the people,» and said that these concerned a «continuity of a treasured common life,» and that the «ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.»

Teachers are not at liberty to teach in a manner that undermines the very foundations of the free society.

The seminar, held at Brown University, explores the historical, economic, and philosophical foundations of a free society.

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Ancient religions should welcome the political achievements of modernity while calling modernity to open its windows and doors to a world of transcendent truth and love: ``... the great achievements of the modern age» the recognition and guarantee of freedom of conscience, of human rights, of the freedom of science and hence of a free society» should be confirmed and developed while keeping reason and freedom open to their transcendent foundation, so as to ensure that these achievements are not undone....

For instance, inasmuch as the founders» notion of free self - government rests on an essentially Lockean conception of freedom as power outside and prior to truth (however much God or truth imposes an extrinsic obligation to obey, and however reasonable it is to do so in view of future rewards and punishments), then American liberty will eventually erode the moral and cultural foundations of civil society inherited from Protestant Christianity.

Talcott Parsons, The System of Modern Societies (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice - Hall, 1971), 4 - 28; With Edward Shils, Kaspar Naegle, and Jesse Pitts, eds., Theories of Society: Foundations of Modern Sociological Theory (New York: Free Press, 1961), 36 - 41; Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory (New York: Free Press, 1977), 43 - 53, 111 - 16.

The founder, Adam Smith, had a rather cheerful view of human economic activity, especially in societies in which strong moral foundations guide public behavior and free, competitive markets reward with better profits and higher wages those producers and workers who make good decisions.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.»

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· Tennessee PTA supports public education — The foundation of our American society is to provide free public education so that every child may achieve their dreams.

«The Nevada Association of School Boards continues to oppose efforts to weaken the public education system, which is the foundation of a free and democratic society,» stated Dr. Dotty Merrill, Executive Director, Nevada Association of School Boards.

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All efforts of Free Cooper Union work to establish the foundation of a new chapter at our college and in society at large - one that will uphold the principles that allow education to be «as free as air and water», in a long term sustainable, and socially conscious manFree Cooper Union work to establish the foundation of a new chapter at our college and in society at large - one that will uphold the principles that allow education to be «as free as air and water», in a long term sustainable, and socially conscious manfree as air and water», in a long term sustainable, and socially conscious manner.

In her reasons, the judge wrote that she has «no doubt that the right to a climate system capable of sustainable human life is fundamental to a free and ordered society,» and that «a stable climate system is quite literally the foundation of society without which there would be neither civilization nor progress.»