Sentences with phrase «live in a functioning democracy»

The big two that stand out are: (a) that we live in a functioning democracy.

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Regardless of their contention that literacy is «uniquely significant to American civil life» because of its role in a «well - functioning democracy,» the Rodriguez court held that «the key to discovering whether education is «fundamental» is not to be found in comparisons of the relative societal significance of education»; the question is «whether there is a right to education explicitly or implicitly guaranteed by the Constitution.»

Support for live - blogging courtroom proceedings and discrediting class distinctions drawn in this regard also stems from a promotion of the model of discursive democracy outlined above in Part I. Drawing on the work of theorists including Lon Fuller, recall that the Supreme Court of Canada and legal scholars such as Jeremy Waldron held that the fair functioning of the liberal democratic order required civilian access to information and the attendant opportunity to deliberate upon that information critically.