Sentences with phrase «on our democracy by»

The new Demos booklet on democracy by Jonty Oliff Cooper, acting head of their Progressive Conservatism project, seems closer in spirit to this perspective than right communitarianism.

«We, therefore, condemn this offensive on our democracy by IGP Idris.

A spokeswoman for Stringer countered that Spitzer's the one who's trampling on democracy by trying to «use his personal fortune to try and buy this election wholesale.»

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His team takes content marketing one step further by including aggregated news stories relevant to Sanders» policies, curating the most relevant information into a single feed on his website, called «Democracy Daily,» focusing on what Sanders cares about most and providing easy social sharing options.

Every year, the firm's Democracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and politicalDemocracy Index provides a snapshot of global democracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and politicaldemocracy by scoring countries on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture.

Created by Soros in 1979, Open Society is a grant - making foundation with branches and partners around the world and focuses on supporting democracies and combating issues of injustice and discrimination, among other causes.

I suspect he refers to the accounts of the failures of economies directed by state elites under the banner of «collective decision making» and «workers democracy», because all the literature on REAL workers» control shows it increases efficiency and, of course, freedom — it eliminates wage slavery.

Last month a report by the US Senate — entitled Putin's Asymmetric Assault on Democracy in Russia and Europe: Implications for US National Security — also criticized the adequacy of the investigations conducted thus far by Facebook and Twitter into allegations of Russian social media interference vis - a-vis Brexit.

Michael Hudson as interviewed by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez on Democracy Now!

While cable news has been reporting 24/7 on the Special Counsel probe into Russia's attempts to subvert democracy in the U.S., reporting on massive infiltration into the Trump administration by Koch - related individuals has been left to more courageous voices.

Highly critical of New Labour but strongly influenced by Scandinavian social democracy, Compass is advancing themes and policies which will resonate on the progressive left in Canada — a relentless focus on -LSB-...]

But Mercer Bullard, professor of law at the University of Mississippi Law School and founder of Fund Democracy, an advocacy group for mutual fund shareholders, told ThinkAdvisor on Thursday that «the plaintiffs have hurt their cause by delaying» filing a suit until now.»

Endorsed by 22 prominent business and environmental leaders including Chicken Soup co-creator Jack Canfield and innovation blogger / author Seth Godin, the book also includes guest essays from Cynthia Kersey (author of Unstoppable and Unstoppable Women) and Frances Moore Lappé (author of Diet for a Small Planet and many other books on food and democracy).

OCTOBER 18, 2003: Plans for a new B.C. focused news publication announced by David Beers on a Media Democracy Day panel in Vancouver.

However, news that New Democracy had taken a slight lead in the weekend opinion polls sent shares on the Athens Stock Exchange up by 6.9 percent on Monday and a further 1.9 percent on Tuesday.

Comments made by Unilever chief marketing officer Keith Weed in February sound mighty relevant in the light of Cambridge Analytica: «It is acutely clear from the groundswell of consumer voices over recent months that people are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of digital on well - being, on democracy — and on truth itself,» Weed said.

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

When House Republicans voted on Monday night to release a memo, compiled by Rep. Devin Nunes, alleging anti-Trump bias at the FBI, they raised a very serious question for American democracy.

Democracy is a system of government based on representation by the population of eligible members of a jurisdiction.

One mush make it clear that, those who claim to be moderate Muslims, HAD BETTER SHOW IT BY TALKING THEIR NOT SO MODERATE FELLOWS into stopping their violent acts, rather than banging on the Western democracies door making demands.

Equating censorship with attacks on the funding of artists by the NEA, she warned that Congress is about «to weaken the very foundation of democracy.»

Your «Americaness» isn't defined by your religion — and part of being American as you so frequently harp on, is democracy, freedom of speech and belief.

I do admit that McCain is a very good man though and I would have trusted him to at least do the right things on most accounts except he tends to be a Neo-con which I think Amnerica has no place pushing Democracy (or anything for that matter) by military force.

The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future By Joshua Mitchell University of Chicago Press.

Capitalism, in turn, creates the economic base on which may be built, with guidance from religion and democracy, a more humane society of the kind called for by both Christian and Jewish traditions.

Trump and the Future of American Democracy Thursday, November 16 Join Kirk on Campus for a spirited conversation about how the American conservative and progressive movements have been reshaped by the Trump presidency, and what it means for the future.

Forty - five leading pro-life advocates, including Gary Bauer of the Family Research Council, James Dobson of Focus on the Family, Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life, Wanda Franz of the National Right to Life Committee, and Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, signed a much heralded joint «Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Concern» published in First Things in 1996 in which the primary legal complaint was made that Roe «wounded American democracy» by removing the issue of abortion from «democratic concern.»

This statement, originally titled «A Christian Women's Declaration,» was issued on September 16, 1997 by the Ecumenical Coalition of Women and Society, a project of the Washington - based Institute on Religion and Democracy.

On the other hand such personalism iuris divini, which despite its importance can not here be proved theologically, is a principle of resistance against the well - known dangers and shortcomings of democracy in large societies where self - government by the people, for example, by plebiscite is no longer possible and the representation which takes its place be - comes more and moe autonomous.

I'm against allowing any sort of moral law decided by some, even if it is a majority in a democracy, to be forced on the rest with no other support than «thats what God wants».

The more strictly the tenets of a particular religious sect are pushed on us, such as by Christian fundamentalists, the more we see conflict between democracy and religion.

@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.

Democracy (first practiced on a historically notable scale by the ancient Greeks) predates Christianity by a rather long time.

Despite the rhetoric of democracy there is a lack of transparency m discussions of officials with the IMF / WB authorities and their decisions regarding conditionalities often imposed on the debtor countries without clear exposure even to Parliament and its select committees, much less to the general public affected by them.

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.

He is on record saying that democracy is a terrible form of government, unless it is run by his kind of Christians.

It is a script taken right from the pages of Tocqueville's Democracy in America, recently referenced on this blog site in an article by the SBE («senior blog editor), Ivan K.

The manners appropriate for teachers and students in a democracy of worth are neither those of the classical authoritarian school, where it is presupposed that the schoolmaster knows the truth and is expected to inculcate it, nor those of the progressive school, which is built on the principle that truth is by definition what solves human problems.

An enduring and progressive democracy rests on common loyalty to a law of truth and right which is found and given, not constructed by human decision; and for the propagation and health of such democracy an educational system centered around this religious principle is required.

Since the legitimacy of institutions of governance» be they democratic or otherwise» depends ultimately on their capacity and willingness to preserve and promote the common good by, above all, protecting fundamental human rights, the failure of the institutions of American democracy to fulfill their responsibilities has created what is truly a crisis.

As John Paul II contends in his most recent encyclical, Evangelium Vitae, we must not «idolize» democracy by «democratizing» the truth on which democracy depends.

85 But characteristically he went on to praise America for its democracy: «Democracy is an ultimate norm of political organization in the sense that no better way has been found to check the inordinacy of the powerful on the one hand and the confusion of the multitude on the other than by making every center of power responsible to the people whom it affectdemocracy: «Democracy is an ultimate norm of political organization in the sense that no better way has been found to check the inordinacy of the powerful on the one hand and the confusion of the multitude on the other than by making every center of power responsible to the people whom it affectDemocracy is an ultimate norm of political organization in the sense that no better way has been found to check the inordinacy of the powerful on the one hand and the confusion of the multitude on the other than by making every center of power responsible to the people whom it affects.»

Iran is NOT a democracy its a «Religious» country, and those who choose to live in Iran must Live by their Laws, America does nt have the MONEY to be policing the World over each countries Policies, especially when OUR country is in such critical state to be on Life Support.

Pertinent to this discussion is a recent publication of Democracy As Culture: Deweyan Pragmaticism in a Globalized World, edited by Sor - Hoon Tan and John Whalen - Bridge, both on the faculty of the National University of Singapore with a dozen articles by different authors on Dewey and Confucianism.

The Epilogue includes two articles by 2011 Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo posted on a Chinese website in 2006, translated in the Journal of Democracy, January 2011.

The presence in our body politic of such a party is the only means by which democracy can be saved from its present moral chaos, from the tyranny of entrenched interests, from the insolence of a predatory officeholding party system, and from the peril of a fascist dictatorship of big business, on the one hand, or of a communist dictatorship of the proletariat, on the other [December 31, 1932].

Frankly, I often disagree with fellow believers on how they try to legislate their interpretation of scripture, but the governance of a civil society is never going to be uninfluenced by people of faith as long as it is a democracy.

This applies not only to the protection of the rules of democracy, because, on the one hand, even the laws of a democratic society may be regarded by some as an unjustified limitation of their freedom, and, on the other, there may also be laws which wrongly restrict freedom even though they were promulgated according to the rules of democracy.

No poll tax, Yes on Poll test to get rid of the idiots because having a democracy of idiots is worse than having a dictator, it's more like being surrounded by dick - taters.

«First, the word democracy, as used by modern peoples, has a wider meaning than in the classical treatises on the science of government.