Sentences with phrase «in living in a democracy»

Not only should we feel compelled to vote, we should desire to vote, joyfully accepting the civic task involved in living in a democracy.

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Until our country makes a distinction between money and governance, power and business, we will have an unjust society that preys upon itself and the world in the name of freedom, democracy, and the American way of life
«What they decide will determine whether we still live in a constitutional democracy
LARRY ELLISON: Well — great things is we live in a democracy.
«Now is not the time to get on with our lives, but to take an appropriate response in line with the ongoing threat that Russia poses to our democracy and global security interests,» Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin said in a statement.
In recent years, the percentage of people who believe it is «essential» to live in a democracy is falling rapidlIn recent years, the percentage of people who believe it is «essential» to live in a democracy is falling rapidlin a democracy is falling rapidly.
We're living in an age where we will choose between democracy and global totalitarianism.
The third — that the United Kingdom is living in a post-factual democracy — is particularly alarming.
The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) brings together the governments of countries committed to democracy and the market economy from around the world to support sustainable economic growth, Boost employment, raise living standards, maintain financial stability, assist other countries» economic development, and contribute to growth in world trade.
You are obviously not intelligent or responsible enough to live and participate in a democracy if that is truly what you believe.
However, by refusing to submit to «the democracy of the dead,» (Chesterton's words, not Compton's), nineteenth - century Evangelicals did, in ways Compton suggests but does not fully clarify, take a first crucial step toward the idea of a «living Constitution.»
For legal purposes, the Bible is not at all irrelevant, precisely because it is very relevant to a large number of citizens, and we do in fact live in something that somewhat resembles a democracy.
Conservatives were still likely to read quite a few jeremiads, and social - conservatives in particular remained gloomy about a number of topics, but the world - wide spread of democracy and the undeniably higher standards of living attained in the U.S. and its more capitalism - friendly allies made optimism seem the rational stance.
The biblical word says the government shall rest on his shoulders, which means that the love, respect and kindness the bible breathes i life should always serve as inspiration for our laws, Which indeed it does in every major democracy.
The situation is very bad because politically in Eritrea there is a dictator and they live without any type of freedom or democracy.
The fact is that when we live in a democracy all of us have to go against our beliefs sometimes.
Me to... but... in the grand scheme of things, invading two Islamic countries in a mater of 18 months, completely destroying their way of life and system of government (s), and imposing, or attempting to impose democracy on them, and in the process, being directly and indirectly responsible for the complete breakdown of their fragile societies and the deaths of hundreds of thousands...
Because we live in a democracy, we bear the burden of persuading our fellows of the worth of our claims upon them.
Catholicism and the Renewal of American Democracy by george weigel paulist press, 218 pages, $ 11.95 Forty years ago, Evelyn Waugh wrote a piece for Life magazine entitled «The American Epoch in the Catholic Church.»
Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.»
That we should be considered lucky that we live in a government that has a systems of checks and balances between having a democracy while also have means of staving off certain democratic factions against certain minorities.
First of all we need to understand that the country we live in is not a democracy, but a democratic republic, There is a huge difference.
Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.
Democracy is a way of life in which everybody counts, and not only a privileged few.
When done well which it is most of the time — it links religious and political commitments in a way that enhances democracy, social justice and American religious life.
The «communal tensions» between the groups were «of major importance in the life of the nation,» Herberg added, suggesting that they began non-divisive discussions about the limits of American democracy and allowed all 96 percent of Americans who identified as Protestant, Catholic, or Jew to have some social, political, and cultural recognition in America.
At many points the influence of John Dewey and other pragmatists will be evident, particularly their belief in democracy as a comprehensive way of life, their confidence in the wide relevance of the scientific spirit and methods, and their commitment to education as a moral enterprise.
But he was more interested in the fact that each religion was presumed to possess the same «spiritual values» of «the American Way of Life,» by which he meant a soft - hearted faith in democracy (political, economic, and religious) combined with a more robust faith in idealism, activism, and moral conviction.
A democracy that believes in religious freedom should be willing to live with tension between the two; so should a religion that believes in democracy.
The «civil society» as a form of participatory democracy is a framework in which the life, the people and their communities directly participate and multilaterally and multi-dimensionally form solidarity linkages to make creative interventions in the global market process.
Any weakening of the family will accordingly be reflected in the decline of democracy generally, and a widespread belief in the importance and the stability of families will help to sustain democratic ideals in other spheres of life.
In this new democracy of sexual desire the invention of efficient and inexpensive contraceptive devices and of improved drugs for the cure of venereal diseases is regarded as a signal advance toward the goal of the good life, for now it is possible to engage freely and widely in sexual intercourse with little fear of unwanted consequences, in the form of either offspring or infectioIn this new democracy of sexual desire the invention of efficient and inexpensive contraceptive devices and of improved drugs for the cure of venereal diseases is regarded as a signal advance toward the goal of the good life, for now it is possible to engage freely and widely in sexual intercourse with little fear of unwanted consequences, in the form of either offspring or infectioin sexual intercourse with little fear of unwanted consequences, in the form of either offspring or infectioin the form of either offspring or infection.
Bro you don't have a clue, that'd be impossible to implement if you wish to live in a democracy.
Robert Bellah «s study of the roots of American democracy led him to conclude that during the nation «s early life «the real school of republican virtue in America... was the church.»
It is represented in our day by liberal arts colleges, the Masons, Rotary, life insurance, Religion in American Life, the Anti-Defamation League, the League of Women Voters, Reader's Digest, the Jaycees, the Pro-Choice Movement, Robert Schuller, the WCTU, Common Cause, savings banks, the Moral Majority, William Buckley, the Institute for Religion and Democracy - and many preachers of the mainline denominatilife insurance, Religion in American Life, the Anti-Defamation League, the League of Women Voters, Reader's Digest, the Jaycees, the Pro-Choice Movement, Robert Schuller, the WCTU, Common Cause, savings banks, the Moral Majority, William Buckley, the Institute for Religion and Democracy - and many preachers of the mainline denominatiLife, the Anti-Defamation League, the League of Women Voters, Reader's Digest, the Jaycees, the Pro-Choice Movement, Robert Schuller, the WCTU, Common Cause, savings banks, the Moral Majority, William Buckley, the Institute for Religion and Democracy - and many preachers of the mainline denominations.
This placing of their very lives in the hands of a strategic elite was like the trust that always had to be granted by democracies to their military leaders, such as in ancient Athens or pre-1950s America; it was unlike it in the sheer immediacy of the new sort of death - threat and the practical impossibility of evading it.
This chapter deals with religion as a particular facet of education in a democracy, but more significant is the fact that all of the preceding chapters set forth a religious point of view by demonstrating what the life of ultimate devotion means in a wide range of human concerns.
We live in a democracy and it's important to take every opportunity to stand up for what you believe in.
One could go on enumerating undemocratic elements in our society — the vast disparity in incomes and living conditions, the myth of equal opportunity for education and employment, the regimentation and militarization of the public mind, the threat to democracy which would ensue if a system of compulsory peacetime military training should be adopted.
In a democracy of worth there is no majority rule, in the sense that the majority completely determine how life will be lived in the societIn a democracy of worth there is no majority rule, in the sense that the majority completely determine how life will be lived in the societin the sense that the majority completely determine how life will be lived in the societin the society.
He should know the laws of his country and pay the price if he chooses to live like he is in a Democracy.
For all the lectures on human rights and democracy coming out of Manila, the brutal fact of Philippine life is that millions of its people are forced to leave their families to do dirty work elsewhere because they have no way to feed their families — this in a strategically located land with an educated, English - speaking workforce and bursting with natural resources.
Iran is NOT a democracy its a «Religious» country, and those who choose to live in Iran must Live by their Laws, America does nt have the MONEY to be policing the World over each countries Policies, especially when OUR country is in such critical state to be on Life Supplive in Iran must Live by their Laws, America does nt have the MONEY to be policing the World over each countries Policies, especially when OUR country is in such critical state to be on Life SuppLive by their Laws, America does nt have the MONEY to be policing the World over each countries Policies, especially when OUR country is in such critical state to be on Life Support.
While we all should and do tolerate and accept each others right to worship, the majority should rule, just as in voting, as in democracy and in life.
What binds those different cultures and ethnicities together in America is a longing to live free in a democracy.
And in exploring the wide implications of it all, he noted «the risk of an alliance between democracy and ethical relativism, which would remove any sure moral reference point from political and social life, and on a deeper level make the acknowledgement of truth impossible» (VS 101) and warned us, as he had done in an earlier encyclical, that «As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism».
The dynamic of fascism, communism, and democracy is in each case related to a faith in which each individual can see his life linked with a significant future.
He guided South Africa through the stormy waters of our first few years of democracy and when he left office he continued in public life, calling the nation to moments and campaigns of charity and conscience.
And it's very unhealthy for democracy when the courts — without clear constitutional warrant — deprive citizens of the opportunity to have a say in setting the conditions under which we live, work, and raise our children.
These rights are the most treasured benefits of living in a free and democratic nation, and they are more than a help; they are foundational principles that promote and protect a healthy democracy.
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