Sentences with phrase «liberal principles»

As well as challenges to the government, we could use more space to talk through some genuine difficulties around civil liberties and security issues in a way which is consistent with liberal principles.
In addition to the technical aspects of any reform, an important matter of liberal principle arises.
It highlights the reality of his commitment to the basic liberal principle at the heart of the issue.
We will need a deeper assessment of how liberal principles shape both the objects of our thought and the very form of our thinking.
Just as secularized majorities can impose their own conception of the boundary between state and religion, so can religious majorities, provided they honour the other three liberal principles of accessible justification, civic inclusiveness and individual liberty.
Political conservatism can strive for conservative legislation and legal positivist judges will faithfully apply it, just as they would apply legislation embodying liberal principles.
I must not imagine complacently that my natural moral sentiments and the modern liberal principles I endorse will always happily correspond with the demands that flow from «the reality of the Lord's things.»
In the areas of church autonomy and anti-discrimination laws, the nature of personhood, the family, marriage, bio-ethics and education, general liberal principles do not generate uniquely determinate and conclusive solutions.
Rather than calling on him to not use it, one would rather that it does help capture why all parents - not just those with means - having the opportunity to invest something for their children does speak to the important liberal principles he spoke of in your seminar.
These ideas contrast with those social liberal principles held by Lord Oakeshott, the Lib Dem president, Tim Farron, many party members and previous leaders such as Charles Kennedy.
If liberal principles are to mean anything, a liberal's duty is to challenge excesses and concentrations of power, particularly concerning the State.
It's doubly important that the Lib Dems stick to liberal principles because they are the only party which does so.
His broken promises on tuition fees and his abandonment of many other liberal principles, have rightly brought him ire from both left and right.
But as I have argued before (for example, about Obama), a good liberal principle is to try to let people choose for themselves how they wish to be identified.
In this sense, Robinson's enemies are now not so much Muslims, or Muslim communities as they used to be back in the EDL's heydays, but rather his own ideological opposites — namely white, British public figures that espouse liberal principles and have a «globalist» outlook.
He dismissed the suggestion that Lloyd George was insinuating Liberal principles onto the Conservative ministers and believed that breaking up the Coalition would destroy the machinery that would best tackle future political issues and artificially revive the two - party system.
He went on, «Socially Liberal values have never been more needed, as we seek to balance our role in Coalition Government with the Conservatives with the need to ensure we remain a radical and progressive party, with socially liberal principles as our core foundation.»
Mr Ayariga said the APC believes in liberal principles adding that «the APC is the only party that anyone from any party will find principles he supports and I call on people from the various political parties to join us reorganize the APC.»
It is a fundamental liberal principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty, but I was clear that these were serious issues and that given what was being said he needed to avoid any situation that could possibly cause further concern.
Despite siren calls from disgruntled former spokesmen, getting public spending under control and not bequeathing crushing debt to future generations is a basic liberal principle.
Heseltine stressed his agreement with Liberal principles and fought extremely hard, achieving a small swing to the Conservatives, bucking the national trend.
The liberal principle accepts the truths of God's revelation in Christ only to the extent that they cohere with natural reason, correspond to pious feelings, or serve the needs of civil society (cf. Apologia, chap.
Instead liberal Catholic thought moves entirely within the unquestioned conviction that liberal principles are mere articles of peace and that the issue between the Church and liberal society is therefore not about the true nature of things — this question can be set aside — but is merely moral and political.
Perhaps this is the source of that perennial frustration among the radicals, the refusal or the incapacity of the liberals even to acknowledge the fundamental points of contention between us: that liberal principles are ontologically indifferent or that they are even the political expression of a sound Christian anthropology.
Both broad streams of traditionalist responses to the contemporary climate of oppression — those who say our troubles are an extension of liberal principles and those who say they are a betrayal of those principles — tend to jump too quickly from theory to practice, and so to treat the lived experience of our society as a kind of working out of philosophical premises.
Liberalism's defenders fear that any compromise of liberal principles will result in the resurgence of religious warfare, the re-enslavement of various populations, the loss of the independence of women, and the abandonment of rights and equality under law.
As is well known, when he received the cardinal's red hat from Pope Leo XIII in 1879, he said in his speech of acceptance that his whole life had been a struggle against «the liberal principle in religion,» which he defined as the assumption that one opinion is as good as another, especially on such a murky matter as religion.
And these are liberal principles.
«And in the case of the DLA reform, which saves very little money, I suspect I am not alone in being struck by just how little has been gained in return for the repudiation of liberal principle
The Liberal Democrats have a proud history of developing our policies based on evidence, liberal principles and informed debate.
The Lib Dems can't pretend that these liberal principles were enacted while they've been in power, but they still try to claim credit for a fall in the crime rate.
One senior parliamentarian told the Guardian he thought Rennard had been treated «appallingly» and the liberal principle of «innocent until proven guilty» had been thrown out of the window during the process, in which the peer has not been allowed to see the report into his conduct.
NYC has produced a candidate with liberal principles, and we don't know what he looks like in his underwear.
Which makes those who put their social democrat principles above their liberal principles uncomfortable at times.
Here, Clarke demonstrates his liberal principles, and why it was always a misunderstanding to label him a «Blairite», by mentioning two policy areas where he openly disagrees with the Labour leadership.
Law, Legislation and Liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political...
Law, Legislation and Liberty: A new statement of the liberal principles of justice and political economy (Routledge Classics)
The white women Che's Gretchen interacts with note only his vocal adherence to the liberal principles he's gleaned from Yelp reviews and Lena Dunham's book, ignoring the fact that he's clearly a famous dude in a wig and Warby Parker glasses.
No the issue for progressive people is not about the above justification, rather the issue is to be found in the interpretation act which speaks directly to interpreting according to a liberal principles.
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