Sentences with phrase «many citizens of democracies»

Sure, it can be a dirty business, but to disengage is to abdicate the stewardship we have as citizens of a democracy.

And when our rights and citizens of a democracy conflict with our responsibilities as citizens of heaven, we must choose to abandon our rights, and live for what is right.

«If we wish to train good citizens of democracy it is essential that one of the conscious and deliberate aims of their teachers should be to interest their pupils in the affairs of the modern world and so to train them that they will later develop a power of wise social judgement.»

In «Failing Liberty 101» (p. 22), William Damon calls U.S. educators to take up their historic responsibility to prepare students for their role as citizens of a democracy.

A society that uses all of its resources effectively to provide an equal opportunity for all children and youth to learn, develop, and become contributing citizens of our democracy.

It looks like many citizens of democracies around the world are under debt.

It seems to me that any journalist worth her notepad allows no one to dictate to her, but that no citizens of any democracy (or republic) worth the paper its constitution is written on refrain in any topic area from criticizing — not dictating to, but criticizing — journalism.

It's time to take account of our carbon budgets and make the citizens of this democracy aware of them on a regular basis.

As citizens of a democracy fuelled by economic growth and a free market, Canadians are turning to legal remedies in unprecedented numbers to undo the unfair or unforeseen outcomes life in Canada sometimes entails.

Home is where we learn the fundamentals for becoming citizens of a democracy.

Not exact matches

«European democracy, and I think also British democracy, has not been established to diminish the rights of citizens but to protect the rights of citizens,» he said, reiterating his often repeated position that the European Parliament will insist negotiating teams must focus on this issue.

President Obama has long lamented the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision for allowing a torrent of unregulated money to flood the political process (specifically, he's called the ruling a «threat to democracy»).

In our March issue, Yascha Mounk described a loss of faith in America's democracy among its citizens.

«The restriction of broadcast licenses... will distort competition and does not ensure that the public will be informed objectively objective information to citizens,» the center - right New Democracy party said.

I plan to continue to push the B.C. Liberal government through this fall sitting of the legislature to finally stand up for good democracy and make the shift necessary to put individual citizens at the centre of our democracy.

The term implies that when the citizens of Cambodia or Argentina see their country's war criminals or dictators tried and convicted, they will place more faith in the rule of law, and the society can move more easily toward a peace settlement or democracy.

For legal purposes, the Bible is not at all irrelevant, precisely because it is very relevant to a large number of citizens, and we do in fact live in something that somewhat resembles a democracy.

Catholic claims of priestly and especially papal authority thus seemed to prevent individual Christians from choosing their own faith, as necessary for salvation; they also seemed to prevent citizens from thinking and voting independently, as necessary for democracy.

St Thomas Aquinas recognised that all citizens should have some share and say in government, whether the system be a monarchy, aristocracy or some variety of electoral democracy (ST. I - II Q. 105 art.

«We» are the citizens of the «rich, North Atlantic democracies,» and our institutions require our allegiance.

Properly speaking, a democratic constitution provides the one set of legal prescriptions that must be explicitly accepted by all citizens as participants in the political discourse, including discourse about whether the actual constitution is in fact democratic and, indeed, whether democracy itself is the proper form of the political association.

Human Rights NGOs like the Centre for Governance and Development, Citizens Coalition for Constitutional Change, Human Rights Commission and Mazingira Institute, Law Society and the NGO Council helped to popularize the gospel of accountability as a culture of democracy.

@Howard — As a republic, which is a version of representative democracy, it means we do not have a true or direct democracy where each law would be voted on by each citizen, but an elected representative for larger groups of people that gets to cast the vote, which may or may not at times represent the will of the voters who elected the representative.

New Urbanists work both substantively and procedurally to fight precisely those tendencies toward individualism that Tocqueville recognized as the most serious threat to the culture of democracy, for which free associations of citizens were the primary remedy and of which suburban sprawl is arguably our culture's foremost physical embodiment.

We have a representative democracy which tends to validate religious belief instead of recognizing that they should have NO ROLE where religion is concerned other than to protect it's citizens, religious or not, and allowing all to live within the basic laws of the country which should have wide support and sound evidence supporting the need for them.

... one can change human institutions, but not man; whatever the general effort of a society to render citizens equal and alike, the particular pride of individuals will always seek to escape the [common] level... In aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable barriers, in democracies, they are divided by a multitude of small, almost invisible threads that are broken every minute and are constantly changed from place to place.

Ordinary citizens are complicit in all of the appetites and short - sightedness of liberal consumer democracy.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

Rorty does take a stand on a current educational issue when he supports efforts to promote literacy in a democracy so that the electorate can understand the issues of the day and become better citizens.

The great problem for democracy in a complex society is to make the voice of each citizen count in the determination of public policy.

The study had two aims: first to help church people and the public to identify the issues; and second, to identify solutions that would not restrict the rights of citizens to express themselves freely in a democracy.

This breadth of scope is the basis for a program of liberal studies in a pluralistic democracy in which all the citizens are expected to participate.

Democratic forms theoretically give equal political power to all citizens, and at times the institutions of democracy do serve to check the control of government by the rich.

Here's what Plato wrote about democracy almost 2350 years ago: ``... do you notice how tender they make the citizen's soul, so that if someone proposes anything that smacks in any way of slavery, they are irritated and can't stand it?

At the same time, although democracy presupposed a basic rationality on the part of the citizens, few Greeks were under the illusion that men acted according to principles of reason alone.

It is true, as the Pope affirms, that democracy is uniquely valuable because it embodies more fully than any alternative system the principle of the fundamental moral equality of citizens.

He highlighted Britain's achievements as a «pluralist democracy which places great value on freedom of speech, freedom of political affiliation and respect for the rule of law, with a strong sense of the individual's rights and duties, and of the equality of all citizens before the law and noted that there was much in common here with Catholic social teaching.

And it's very unhealthy for democracy when the courts — without clear constitutional warrant — deprive citizens of the opportunity to have a say in setting the conditions under which we live, work, and raise our children.

The Athenian democracy was a kind of aristocracy of free citizens built on slavery.

Democracy ought not by any superficial synthesis to be identified with Christianity simply because in the democratic West the majority of the citizens profess to be Christians.

If the means through which the United States carries out its foreign policy are windows through which we can better see ourselves, then one can better understand why D'Escoto expressed concern about our wellbeing, the viability of our democracy, and the likelihood of widespread repression against U.S. citizens.

As the technological era permeates cultures worldwide, the mass media are increasingly employed as a tool of the production - consumption cycle rather than as a resource for the education, information, and entertainment required for the well - being of all people, an element essential to the development of citizens in any democracy.

Democracy, to be practiced and implemented with integrity, demands a free flow of information to citizens; it definitely can not be overly censored, curbed, or edited to suit the agenda of the political party in power.

It served the needs of the American democracy for self - disciplined, moral citizens.

The sovereign state, even the constitutional democracy that's supposed to recognize and strive to support the inalienable rights of its citizens, nonetheless holds the power to kill its citizens with direct intent and thereby to alienate from them an essential right, which is to continue living.

All to protect hindu Judaism, filthy secular ism, hindu criminal government of Nigeria rules Nigeria by, not to help citizens of the country but to hind, rob and steal on name of hindu fake democracy.

If it is ever to be brought into being in the real world, my basic democracy would, of course, require a fleshed - out superstructure in which real humans could live together — arguing as well as deliberating, competing as well as deciding, united and distinguished by something beyond their shared conviction that equality, freedom, and civic dignity are essential to collective self - government by citizens.

The government of a liberal democracy is like every other government in that it coerces its citizens in all kinds of ways for the common good — the dominant form of this coercion being taxation.

Both Canada and the US are democracies, and many of the forefathers of citizens of both countries emigrated from the same European countries.

Liberals are right when they insist that regarding the poor as the equals of all other citizens is essential to the incorporation of a viable welfare state within a robust democracy.