Sentences with phrase «indispensable social functions»

Our legal system, and especially our constitutional law, tends to overlook informal communities of memory and mutual aid even though our society counts heavily on them to perform indispensable social functions.

Schlesinger states that «religion has an indispensable social function,» but the body of his address argues that absolutism is the root of the worst social and political evils, and that all absolutism is essentially religious, whether it is the «Judeo - Christian tradition» or «the totalitarian social religions of our age» (by which, one assumes, he means fascism and communism).