Sentences with phrase «of pure democracy»

I get it, it's a marketing ploy of pure democracy and the other four teams have fans with computers, too, but here's the fallout.

But, given the unsustainability of pure democracy, it's not surprising that by the Eighties we had the bourgeois bohemian mixture of oligarchy and democracy, with bourgeois trumping bohemian at every turn.

Not exact matches

One of the primary reasons that our government was set up as a Democratic Republic (as opposed to a pure democracy) was to «protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority».

The Founding Fathers knew that every pure democracy never lasted because they eventually turned into mob rule, where the majority got all of the rights and everyone else had none.

Irreligious and idolatrous cultures may take many forms, from the pure self - seeking of irresponsible individualism, through the various types of more or less organized pursuit of advantage, to the collectivistic autonomy of a totalitarian «people's democracy.»

Somehow, capitalism is now confused with democracy and so wierd complete laisez faire capitalism is held up as a goal, when that kind of pure capitalism leads to pollution, child labor sweatshops, etc..

For reasons Maritain articulates at some length, a certain kind of democracy, guarded against the diseases to which «pure» democracies are prey, best represents the full flowering of human practical wisdom about the sorts of institutions worthy of Jewish and Christian thought.

Democracy is not an abstract concept of the kind that can be set forth mathematically in terms of pure ratiocination.

This spectrum stretches from pure democracy, with majority rule, to representative democracies where a subset of the populace speaks for the whole.

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the efficacy which it must derive from the Union.

It's entirely possible for a democracy to have other forms of economies - like pure socialism, or even communism, while maintaining democratic governments.

The solution, they argue is to balance pure democracy - i.e., poll - driven majoritarianism - with strong institutions that respect the civil liberties, even of the minorities.

Anarchy abolishes all government and makes the enforcement of individual rights the duty of other individuals (also a pure / direct democracy does this.

While the founders disagreed regarding the role of the federal government, none sought to build a pure democracy.

Giving everyone a vote on a single issue, no matter how educated, rich, clever or powerful they are, is the purest form of democracy.

Possibly most of the «socialists» within the Labour Party — like even Tony Benn and Jeremy Corbyn — not being Socialist Workers Party style socialists, did not leave the Party and instead grudgingly accepted our dilution to social democracy for the main reason that pure socialism sans in - govt would remain a mere theory and would be worse than practical social democratic reforms / reliefs whilst in power -LRB--- and particularly bebeficial / necessary after a prolonged Thatcherite damage to our society!

Yet the governance of public schools is one of the purest and most responsive forms of American democracy.

Instead the community will have the final say over any DApps running on the blockchain, creating a pure form of digital democracy.