Sentences with phrase «founding values of democracy»

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A school in a democracy of worth is founded on the premise that there are values of truth and right, not of human determination, to be sought and served, and that teachers, though never fully in possession of these values, are the appointed custodians and mediators of them to the young.

The European Union, she told delegates, wasn't «perfect» and had, in the case of Spanish police actions in Catalonia, failed to live up «to its founding values of human dignity, freedom, democracy and equality».

Article 2 - The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities.

These include the need for a purposively broad, liberal and benevolent interpretation of the Constitution as a whole, so far as the language of the constitution would admit, having due regard to the underlying values and principles that need to be promoted to safeguarded our system of participatory democracy, the principle that the constitution is a document sui generis, and allied to this, the principle that the constitution must be interpreted in the light of its own words, and not words found in some other written constitution» (Writ No: JI / 15/2015 [unreported] pages 23 & 24).

But he adds: «Move along the spectrum, and you find people who may reject violence, but who accept various parts of the extremist world - view including real hostility towards western democracy and liberal values.

She should start with Patrick Wolf's «Civics Exam» literature review of 21 studies, which found that the «statistical record suggests that private schooling and school choice often enhance the realization of the civic values that are central to a well - functioning democracy.»

In this respect, I believe it can only be commended that the Court attributes a meaningful role to the principles of democracy and the rule of law — principles which, after all, rank amongst the EU's founding constitutional values as expressed in Article 2 TEU.

If Member States are enforcing substantive EU norms through administrative and criminal penalties, the CJEU clearly should be able to oversee uniform application of EU law, especially considering the fact that article 2 TEU states that the «Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities».

Several values — the rule of law, good administration, democracy and separation of powers — can be found in the decided cases.