Sentences with phrase «idea of democracy»

Creating a democratic community is indeed a daunting task, for the very idea of democracy is one that has to be continuously employed afresh.

For the Turner Prize exhibition Ms Chetwynd has restaged key moments from her nominated exhibition Odd Man Out 2011 which addressed ideas of democracy and the consequences of decision making through two folksy plays acted by puppets.

This is the sense in which Maritain was able in Christianity and Democracy, Man and the State, and other works to claim for a specific idea of democracy the support of the main spine of the Christian intellectual tradition.

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.

We should have gone through this hell under the current dispensation because the essential idea of democracy is that we have the right to determine who governs us and the constitution gives us the right to hold them accountable.

I was inspired by the exuberance, ingenuity, political energy, resistance, love, and DIY model of underground hip - hop, and created this program to push and extend ideas of democracy, community, civic engagement, and intersectional justice.

The ongoing body of work, begun in 2014, explores ideas of democracy and its efficacy in southern Africa.

«I just think that not only does it strip from the people of Syracuse the ability to make an informed decision but it undermines the very idea of a democracy.

Odd Man Out was a five - hour performance piece addressing ideas of democracy, performed twice a week.

As the Holy Father demonstrated in an address in Zagreb, Croatia, in early June, the two parts of that campaign» the recovery of Christian roots and the deepening of 21st - century Europe's idea of democracy» go together.

Killswitch is a fast - paced documentary that takes a deep look at internet censorship, hacktivism, free speech and the idea of democracy in a digital age.

The editors question whether Bonhoeffer was sufficiently imaginative in conceiving of a new German government and whether he went far enough toward the idea of democracy rather than encouraging a return to a more traditional German state.

This expresses my idea of democracy.

It is to this problem of translating the idea of democracy into a functioning reality that Michael Novak turns his attention in his most recent book, This Hemisphere of Liberty: A Philosophy of the Americas.

Consider the implications of Dewey's statement that «The idea of democracy is a wider and fuller idea than can be exemplified in the state even at its best.

You might as well dismiss the idea of democracy because you know some ugly Americans.

«What exactly is hidden behind the idea of Democracy?

The idea of a democracy and a republic was a very old tradition, going back to Athens and Rome.

The Socialist Workers Party could conceivably be targeted under this legislation, as could Russell Brand, whose call for Brits to stop voting and support the «rEVOLution» surely runs counter to May's idea of democracy.

The idea of a democracy is that you are able to recognize wiser people than you to do a lot of things for you.

Governor Brown is absolutely right, that is repugnant to the idea of a democracy.»

However, enthusiasm for the idea of democracy is simple, and one that MPs could easily promote.

«People came to that city with the purpose to hurt people, to destroy the idea of democracy, and to destroy and intimidate this country,» Nicoletti said.

He saw how the experiments of Hu and Zhao were leading to a stronger economy, but did not want to countenance the idea of Democracy.

«The idea of democracy, once loosed on the world, would eventually infect larger and larger portions of it, and as we shall see, would turn out to be one of the greatest violence - reduction technologies since the appearance of government itself».

What's coming next is a battle between «the very idea of democracy, and that human beings are created equal» against the notion that power in America should be concentrated in the hands of a very few, very wealthy people, just as it once was in medieval Europe, predicts Heather Richardson, a history professor at Boston College and author of several books about the GOP.