Sentences with phrase «liberal democratic tradition»

The discussions on rights were within the framework of Western European Capitalism and the liberal democratic tradition.

In my earlier years I had little doubt about not only the moral superiority but also the historical future of the values of the liberal democratic tradition.

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That formulation will be of interest to scholars who worry that the Catholic Church has too easily accommodated itself to the «rights talk» of the liberal - democratic tradition.

It is the tradition at the fountainhead of liberal and democratic freedom.

It would seem that freedom, as the liberal - democratic tradition construes freedom, is, in fact, un-Islamic.

The other element that is very important in the environment for the development of Catholicism along the lines that I have suggested is the presence of a liberal, democratic political tradition.

Uncle Petie I hope LibDems (especially those with an instinct for either social democratic or LibDem traditions) would not take the view that «more egalitarian reformed (liberal) market outcomes» will make redistribution unnecessary.

By the same token, I still believe that we need to rediscover and reinterpret the three overlapping political traditions — conservative, liberal and socialist or social - democratic — that have woven in and out of our history for well over a century; and that we have at least as much to learn from our complex religious traditions as from political ones.

Although the Liberal party was quite marginal for most of the century, the tradition also had some support within the Labour party and, in the 1980s, the Social Democratic Party.

The Liberal Democrat party, as the name suggests, has from its inception been ideologically torn between the progressivism of the social democratic tradition and the aspiration of traditional liberalism.

Although he plainly lacks the manic energy of a Thatcher or Blair, he nevertheless personifies the insurgency within the Liberal Democrats which has ruthlessly and decisively supplanted the party's social democratic tradition with the economic neo-liberalism of the Orange Bookers.

Canadian constitutional law, being rooted in the liberal - democratic political tradition, has inherited a particular, liberal conception of freedom as being conceptually limitless.