Thinking About Judges and Judicial Performance: Perspective of the Public and Court Users David Rottman and Tom Tyler, Onati Socio - Legal Series 4 (5)(2014) This article «describes and critiques existing judicial performance evaluation programs that incorporate procedural
justice principles as a dimension for measuring quality through both survey and observational methods.»
Not exact matches
When employers terminate an employee
as punishment for wrongdoing, it's important that they proceed in a way that pays attention to fundamental
principles of
justice.
A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral
principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social
justice as paramount virtues.
Only with regard to the Oliners» third type, the
principled orientation, do we get attention to the level of reflectivity and autonomy exercised by persons choosing rescue activity
as an expression of their duty in relation to the demands of equity and
justice, or their duty in relation to the imperative to care.
In particular, the declaration references the charter's «
principles of constitutional contractual citizenship» and «freedom of movement, property ownership, mutual solidarity and defense,
as well
as principles of
justice and equality before the law,» in regards to Muslims and non-Muslims.
It deserves careful study
as an example of the application of religious
principles to practical social needs, moulding a comparatively primitive order of society to the shape of
justice and humanity.
If, however, it is proposed not
as a preference but
as a
principle, it gravely distorts moral deliberation about the use of force in the service of
justice.
It is an attempt to identify in modes of discourse accessible to the public those first
principles of truth and
justice that are sufficiently clear
as to be adopted
as bases for public policy and the ordering of international life.
Such a right is - to use the words of the Court - neither «implicit in the concept of ordered liberty,» nor is it «a
principle of
justice so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people
as to be ranked fundamental.»
In fact it could with
justice be said that the
principles are all the more important
as ultimate orientation and guides, the more complicated, obscure and inaccessible to total conscious analysis the reality becomes which man himself creates and in which he must morally subsist.
The cosmopolitan envisions the direct application of moral
principles on a global scale, and regards the nation - state
as an impediment to human rights and global
justice.
As McBrien noted, this powerfully suggests the need to be attentive to justice issues within as well as outside the church This principle of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no. 347
As McBrien noted, this powerfully suggests the need to be attentive to
justice issues within as well as outside the church This principle of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no
justice issues within
as well as outside the church This principle of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no. 347
as well
as outside the church This principle of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no. 347
as outside the church This
principle of sacramentality undergirds the statement in the U.S. Catholic bishops» pastoral letter Economic
Justice for All: «All the moral principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no
Justice for All: «All the moral
principles that govern the just operation of any economic endeavor apply to the church and its agencies and institutions; indeed the church should be exemplary» (no. 347).
Because the general conditions of emancipation are the subject matter of
justice and legislated social practices should serve our maximal common humanity, this substantive
principle of
justice may be formulated
as follows: Maximize the measure of general conditions of emancipation that is equally available to all.
Given that our maximal common humanity grounds teleologically the formative
principle of communicative respect and thus a democratic political association, the substantive
principle of
justice as general emancipation consistently implies
as an aspect of itself the overriding formative
principles of a democratic constitution.
Let us call this the
principle of
justice as general emancipation, using the term «general» to express not only the kind of emancipatory conditions with which
justice is properly concerned but also the prescription to maximize the measure of those conditions that is generally available or equally available to all.
The New Testament also talks about
justice and love
as principles embracing one another.
Instead, I will assume that the case for neoclassical metaphysics can otherwise be made and attempt programmatically to show that the comprehensive purpose it formulates grounds
justice as compound, grounds a substantive
principle of
justice that consistently implies the formative human rights of communicative respect.7 Toward the conclusion of this argument, I will also seek to identify an inclusive human right that is substantive in character.
While the Church has insisted that the
justice administered by the state should be rooted in Christian
principle, historically the Church had not ceded the oversight of morality
as such to the state.
This also means that Mays fails to do
justice to Whitehead's early remarks wherein the concept of God is seen
as a
principle of limitation beyond the realm of eternal objects (SMW, chapter 11).
Special care should be taken to discourage young people, who in their search for personal identity tend to be conformists, from interpreting and practicing democracy
as majority rule, in disregard of individual and minority rights and careless of the proper subordination of the will of the group to the
principles of
justice.
For conservative readers, the hardest part of Rawls is his theory of distributive
justice (or,
as some would say, re-distributive
justice) based on the difference
principle.
Reinhold Niebuhr is less dualistic in that he stresses the relevance of love
as an «impossible possibility» to every human situation, but he warns so continually against a sentimental substitution of love for the requirements of
justice that the major impact of his thought is a dichotomy in which again
justice, and not love, is the determining
principle of social ethics.
Systems and
principles of
justice are the servants and instruments of the spirit of brotherhood in so far
as they extend the sense of obligation towards the other, (a) from an immediately felt obligation, prompted by obvious need, to a continued obligation expressed in fixed
principles of mutual support; (b) from a simple relation of the self and one «other» to the complex relations of the self and the «others»; and (c) finally from the obligations... which the community defines from its more impartial perspective.5
Furthermore, it must be firmly maintained
as a
principle both of
justice and of religious freedom that opposition to governmental policies, based on sincerely held moral opinions, need not make a man a security risk.17
And so, if
Justice Kennedy, writing for the Court, sweeps away the last barriers to same — sex marriage, what will be contained in the «
principle» he articulates
as the ground of the decision that would indeed bar marriage to:
It was pragmatic in the sense that it becomes increasingly aware of the contingent circumstances of history which determine how much or how little it is necessary to emphasize» such regulative
principles as justice, equality and liberty.
Man chose satan
as their god and have had the chance to show what they could do without their creator and his ideas,
principles and laws but it has not been pretty and
as Jesus taught that satan is «The ruler of this world», «the god of this system» etc.but for «a little while longer» and the Creator will take his wisdom,
justice, power and love and take over to show what was intended from the beginning.for scriptures (see 1 John 5:19, Rev. 12:9 - 12, Luke 22:31, Matt.25: 41, 1 Pet.5: 8,9, John 8:44,45) and so many others for those who care.
A strong argument for this point of view is made by Emil Brunner who relates the difference between love and
justice to the difference between the I and Thou relationship of persons and the abstractness of
justice as impersonal
principle.1
As an ethicist he moved from the imperatives of the gospel ethic of sacrificial love to the requirements of ambiguous situations, always under the mediation of the
principles of
justice — freedom, equality and order.
The
principles of
justice Rawls devised require that any person's «life plan» be accepted
as equal in dignity to anyone else's.
The Kingdom of God is a reality here and now, but can be perfect only in the eternal order... The primary
principle of Christian Ethics and Christian Politics must be respect for every person simply
as a person... The person is primary, not the society; the State exists for the citizen, not the citizen for the State... freedom is the goal of politics... Freedom, Fellowship, Service — these are the three
principles of a Christian social order, derived from the more fundamental Christian postulates that Man is a child of God and is destined for a life of eternal fellowship with Him... Love... finds its primary expression through
Justice — which in the field of industrial disputes means in practice that each side should state its own case
as strongly
as possibly it can before the most impartial tribunal available...
These two great
principles, then — love and
Justice — must be rather regulative of our application of other
principles than taken
as immediate guides to social policy... It can all be summed up in a phrase: the aim of a Christian social order is the fullest possible development of individual personality in the widest and deepest possible fellowship.
Today, that is largely forgotten,
as all three recognize his greatness: progressives,
as an activist for peace and social
justice; conservatives,
as a defender of the Natural Law and Biblical truth; and the U.S. government,
as a symbol of national unity and American
principles.
The
principle of grace is
as fundamental to Christianity
as that of
justice is to Law.
Instead, however, and
as the best substitute, the Church would need to give the individual Christian three things: a more living ardour of Christian inspiration
as a basis of individual life; an absolute conviction that the moral responsibility of the individual is not at an end because he does not come in conflict with any concrete instruction of the official Church; an initiation into the holy art of finding the concrete prescription for his own decision in the personal call of God, in other words, the logic of concrete particular decision which of course does
justice to universal regulative
principles but can not wholly be deduced from them solely by explicit casuistry.
Mill concludes, however, that although
justice may sometimes appear to be a moral standard independent of utility, in fact we can adequately account for the claims of
justice only if we view them
as derivative from and subordinate to the greatest happiness
principle.
And if the Indian Constitution begins with affirming the humanist
principles of liberty, equality, fraternity and
justice it has behind it the impact of liberal and socialist secular ideologies
as well
as Renascent Hinduism from Raja Rammohan Roy to Gandhi who absorbed these values and made them part of the Renascent Hinduism itself.
For Tinder, equality is the «first
principle of
justice,» and he perceives this
principle not simply
as equality of opportunity» a level playing field» but
as equality of result.
In
principle, the drive is toward the construction of an intellectual statement (or history) of the diverse religions of mankind that ideally does
justice to all of them
as well
as standing independently, a statement that will be cogent to a reasonable man who is a member of any faith or of none.
But the sections on international relations contain also many strong affirmations of the duty and opportunity of the church to serve
as a unifying force among the nations and
as an advocate of those
principles of
justice and liberty which, if generally observed, would prevent the clash of arms.
Our Constitution reflects the same
principle when it exhorts the state to «promote the welfare of the people by securing and protecting
as effectively
as it may a social order in which
justice, social, economic and political, shall inform all the institutions of national life».
They insisted that God must be thought of
as a perfectly self - consistent Being, whose action in history discloses the immutable
principles of
Justice, mercy and truth.
Abortion's record is one of taint and damage to everything it touches, not least,
as even
Justice Anthony Kennedy (who, after having cast his lot with the pro «abortion
justices in the 1992 Casey decision, joined the dissent in Hill) now seems to see, fundamental American constitutional
principles.
Also, he sees freedom and equality
as perennial
principles of
justice that, like agape in relation to philia and
justice, serve
as judgment on their approximations (or lack thereof), and call communities to fuller approximations.
The following
principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts
as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social
justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.
As your little one grows, he'll develop a sense of morality — those
principles that affect how he treats other people and how he views
justice.
As we work out solutions to the new tensions of living in an increasingly diverse society, we need to take an approach that balances everyone's rights fairly and we are pleased that the European Court of
Justice has today appeared to reinforce that
principle.»
Said President Weah: «Article 7 — The Republic shall, consistent with the
principles of individual freedom and social
justice enshrined in this Constitution, manage the national economy and the natural resources of Liberia in such manner
as shall ensure the maximum feasible participation of Liberian citizens under conditions of equality, so
as to advance the general welfare of the Liberian people and the economic development of Liberia.»
As agonistic thinkers like Bonnie Honig rightly argue (see the interview with herhere), it is important to see the common good not as agreed upon in a set of formal procedures or as fixed principles of equality, liberty, and justic
As agonistic thinkers like Bonnie Honig rightly argue (see the interview with herhere), it is important to see the common good not
as agreed upon in a set of formal procedures or as fixed principles of equality, liberty, and justic
as agreed upon in a set of formal procedures or
as fixed principles of equality, liberty, and justic
as fixed
principles of equality, liberty, and
justice.
These include the introduction of territorially autonomous regimes that can be formed without the need to have been part of other pre-existing political - administrative divisions, but on the bases of ethno - cultural features; the recognition of community
justice as parallel and coexistent with ordinary
justice, exercised by the «native indigenous peasant nations and peoples» authorities according to their
principles, cultural values, norms and proceedings» (Art. 199); and the consolidation of a system of collective land titling following ethnicity - based criteria.