Sentences with phrase «in a modern democracy»

He compares this to the idea of the divine right of kings, which has no place in a modern democracy.

These challenges were done legally and openly, as one might expect in a modern democracy... but the responses were not as one might expect.

In order to have a coherent point of view on this question it seems critical to properly take on the question of the purpose of political parties in a modern democracy.

They should be very accountable too, of course — but it can't happen in a modern democracy.

[44] It has no place in a modern democracy.

In any court of law in any modern democracy around the world, evidence gained through wrong - doing is inadmissible.

«It is, in any event, a perfectly appropriate performance of the media's role in a modern democracy for it to investigate and comment on the implementation of a major reform involving large sums of public money and a potentially crucial impact on the lives of some of the least fortunate members of society.

There are two fundamental ideas in modern democracies that seem to contradict each other, while both being so fundamental...

Like almost no other, he has tackled in his art the epoch - making changes in today's world and our society in modern democracy.

In a modern democracy like Canada, a deep state typically comprises leading owners and executives of major private interests and their allies, together with a selection of politicians and bureaucrats tied to the success of those private interests.

These titles have virtually disappeared from use in the modern democracies.

In a modern democracy there is no place for a class of educated gentry who enjoy their studies at the expense of the ignorant toiling masses.

Many MPs, surprisingly in a modern democracy, resort to Hotmail and similar accounts to conduct their routine correspondence.

Can political leaders make serious comebacks in a modern democracy?

But in the process of deciding what powers should be allocated to devolved governments in the UK it may be necessary to revisit the anachronism of the House of Lords and to arrive at an acceptable solution to its incongruous position in a modern democracy.

«Some people in No 10 are acting like a medieval monarch's courtiers, not responsible civil servants in a modern democracy.»

It is simply impossible to logically justify why in a modern democracy we should have an entirely unelected chamber.

In presenting to their Lordships a Bill which seeks to retain an appointed Upper House but help this most ancient and reverent of chambers sit more comfortably in a modern democracy, Liberal Democrat peer David Steel has perhaps provided David Cameron a very «conservative» solution to an almost perennial unanswered question.

In all modern democracies sovereignty resides with the people, and is articulated in a constitution that sets out how power should be exercised.

Compare that with Parliament, which is always full of people, bustling about, seeking out and sometimes haranguing their elected representatives, accessing and engaging in modern democracy and observing vibrant, but often rough and tumble, debate.

Following the global assembly, Discovery Education encourages students to draft their own charter to help broaden their understanding of the importance of the historical event in modern democracy.

So I challenge you to tell us what you would expect to get from better media coverage of climate science and to support this with evidence that policymaking in a modern democracy works the way you say it does.

Her academic fields of interests include metamorphosis of the principle of legality in criminal law, human rights, separation of powers in modern democracies, legitimacy in law - making processes, the effectiveness of criminal law, alternative paradigms to crime prevention, victimology, white collar crimes and corporate crimes.

This is the iron law in modern democracy: extremism does not pay off at the ballot box.

There are two fundamental ideas in modern democracies that seem to contradict each other, while both being so fundamental that none could be severely restricted without burying the concept of a capitalistic democracy.

Dieters have access to nutritional information, people at risk of genetic disease can undergo cutting - edge medical tests and citizens in modern democracies have access to a wide range of news sources covering the entire political spectrum.

The history of all societies in the modern democracies is a progression from traditionalism to cosmopolitanism.

A coherent point of view on party funding requires properly taking on the question of what the political parties are for in a modern democracy.

The UK's ban on sentenced prisoners voting, based on the 19th century concept of civic death, has no place in a modern democracy and is legally and morally unsustainable.

To the extent that we are actively privatizing how we do adjudication, we are in effect actively privatizing a large part of the way we govern ourselves in modern democracies.

Thankfully, that is no longer the case, and in modern democracies, church is separate from the state, the rule of law rests in the hands of legislators elected by citizens and judges chosen for their knowledge and prudence, rather...

Thankfully, that is no longer the case, and in modern democracies, church is separate from the state, the rule of law rests in the hands of legislators elected by citizens and judges chosen for their knowledge and prudence, rather than their adherence to dogma (in Canada anyway).

It articulates the costs and benefits of these privatizing initiatives, particularly their potential negative impacts on the way we regulate ourselves in modern democracies, and it makes recommendations for future civil justice practice and reform.