Sentences with phrase «moral legitimacy»

The imperial state needs religion to provide moral legitimacy for its rule.

Unmoved by the prospect of the end of democracy, and skeptical about the existence of a moral law, they might say that the system still «works» to the satisfaction of the great majority and, niceties about moral legitimacy aside, we will muddle through so long as that continues to be the case.

The third issue conservationists do not typically address is the questionable moral legitimacy of lethal management.

As a result, Falconer was keen to secure a deal with the Lib Dems, which would, he thought, give Labour greater moral legitimacy by providing an extra 25 to 30 seats.

It does not change my conclusion: Capitalism has moral legitimacy because it causes businessmen to deliver high - quality service to customers, not because it is the best way of channeling the energy of greedy men.

To give his government's policies moral legitimacy, she had thrown at him the figure that, according to the UN, 150,000 people die each year as a result of climate change, for which the UK would be culpable if it failed to act on climate change.

However, in the unique facts of Capt. Semrau's case, the greatest challenge faced by the prosecution may not be in proving its case beyond a reasonable doubt, but in maintaining moral legitimacy when imposing the obligatory life sentence for murder upon a decorated soldier who, if found guilty, would be responsible for an apparent mercy killing of an enemy combatant.

Some of them questioned its moral legitimacy and doubted that it should be countenanced under any circumstances.

The market can be made fair — to give it moral legitimacy it must be made fair — but what it can not be made to do, at least not without wrecking it, is to discriminate in favor of failure.

As applied to modern democracy, the idea is that the moral legitimacy of a law or public policy can not be established merely by showing that it was put into place through the workings of democratic institutions.

The unspeakable injustice of thousands of innocent lives taken each day with the blessing of the law continues to be the single greatest threat to the moral legitimacy of this political order.

After the pattern of the confessing German church, the Church would first have to separate herself and declare her independence, disavowing any moral legitimacy indirectly or unofficially provided for the state in the past.

While the convocation was concerned more with saving the Church than the state, it indirectly questioned the moral legitimacy of the government and gave impetus to the German resistance movement.

In America today, we have very nearly reached the completion of a long process I can only describe as the systematic usurpation of ultimate political power by the American judiciary» a usurpation that compels evangelical Christians and, indeed, all believers to ask sobering questions about the moral legitimacy of the current political order and our allegiance to it.

In both traditions, the notion of individual rights against the established order, of checks and balances between competing interests, of the moral legitimacy of an opposition seeking to rule» all these essential elements of democracy are not only alien but blasphemous.

He destroyed its moral legitimacy.

If this is the litmus test of a government's moral legitimacy, need I remind you that the Third Reich, which carried out the First Holocaust, would pass with flying colors?

A professor of ethics at Loyola University, New Orleans, argues against the moral legitimacy of the death penalty, in agreement with statements of John Paul II that have been incorporated into the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

This whole agreement announcement from them was probably just something that they knew the Imam in NYC would reject, which would then give a taint of moral legitimacy to the plans for 9/11 to a group that has neither.

Articulating the answer is crucial, because today there are growing threats of coercion on both sides, and the secularism that refuses to recognize the proper civic roles of religious members of society gives rise to religious reactionaries that reject the moral legitimacy of democratic society.

In a moving story concerning his own children's unanimous affirmation of the moral legitimacy of «same - sex sex» he harked back with nostalgia to his «religious instruction... in the 1950s [which] was hardly rigorous, but at least I was taught to memorise the questions and answers of the Penny Catechism.»

The moral legitimacy of using violence is among the most urgent issues of our time, and yet its discussion slips quickly into an exchange of stereotypes.

Recognizing the moral legitimacy of the will to live and the intensification of Lebenslieben in the hundreds of thousands who now live in Canada, Sweden and elsewhere, why not require of these young men two years» voluntary service as ombudsmen for welfare recipients as our amnesty requirement?

In 1975, the Helsinki Accords provided a vocabulary of human rights that dissident groups in the Eastern bloc employed effectively to weaken the moral legitimacy of communism.

Depressing, and another reminder of the limits of the internet to make immediate change happen in the real world, particularly in a state like Iran that's becoming increasingly despotic as its moral legitimacy fades.

Infringing on the human rights of Muslims would only serve to undermine the government's moral legitimacy and to make it easier for the terror group to recruit supporters.

Francis Maude braved the Commons for a particularly ugly party - political debate, in which Labour and Conservatives managed to strip themselves of any moral legitimacy whatsoever.

Capitalism derives its moral legitimacy from service.

Gambling, even if legal, never has moral legitimacy.

Justiciability is the principle that courts use to ensure that they decide only clear legal questions; they should not intervene in cases that they lack both the institutional capacity and the moral legitimacy to decide.

Do Canadian courts have the institutional capacity and the moral legitimacy to determine whether the Government of Canada has complied with s. 5, 7 and 8 of the KPIA?