Sentences with phrase «longer living in a democracy»

If judges can declare laws unconstitutional at will and impose - or block - policy decisions on the Executive branch with their verdicts, you're no longer living in a democracy but in a oligarchy.

Not exact matches

What binds those different cultures and ethnicities together in America is a longing to live free in a democracy.

Thus democracy still exists — we thankfully still live in a democracy — but it is clear that we no longer have a democratic culture.

Preventing a demagogue is hard in democracy, because democracy requires informed electorate, and many people do not care (or are prevented by economic hardships of life) to get informed enough, and / or many questions are really complicated and might have complicated long - term consequences (like: will abandoning Pacific Trade agreement allow China to control trade in Pacific by bilateral agreements)

While this is true, I do think we live in a corporate plutocracy, but as long as it is labelled «democracy,» that is what we have to accept.

Former President Mahama speaking during the maiden lecture of the Ghana Institute of Social Democracy, a political training institute set up by the NDC said people are no longer interested in how they can work to better the lives of Ghanaians but, rather, that of their own.

Mostly, this is a dramatization of a collection of events in Nelson Mandela's life, from his time as a young lawyer and ladies» man, to his failed marriage, to his pursuit of power in the African National Congress, to his long relationship with the woman who would become Winnie Mandela (Harris, Skyfall), to his life in prison, and ultimately to the makings of the democracy in South Africa that would elect him and ultimately end the oppressive reign of apartheid in the tumultuous nation.

And so they are not just the skills one needs for work, they are also the skills all of us need to be engaged and effective citizens in a 21st century democracy, as well as to be life - long learners.

As stated in a report Deepening Democracy in Fragmented World: «Empowering people to influence decisions that affect their lives and hold their rulers accountable is no longer just a national issue.

So long as we live under this corporate capitalist system we have little choice but to go along in this destruction, to keep pouring on the gas instead of slamming on the brakes, and that the only alternative — impossible as this may seem right now — is to overthrow this global economic system and all of the governments of the 1 % that prop it up and replace them with a global economic democracy, a radical bottom - up political democracy, an eco-socialist civilization.

Regardless, we live in a constitutional democracy where navigating the legal system is a long, hard and expensive slog.