Sentences with phrase «political aristocracy»

They believe dictatorial powers will soon be claimed by Washington's political aristocracy.

Gore Vidal, born and raised as a member of the East Coast American political aristocracy, was a respected novelist, essayist, and outspoken liberal commentator who used his wit to provoke and satirize.

What's sad to witness is how America's constitutional republic continues to slowly morph into a political aristocracy where the names of a select few are touted in order to dissuade other candidates from being considered based on their respective merits.

However, Polish voters have given this social program the benefit of the doubt because PiS, unlike their chief opponents, have not been identified with the new class of economic and political aristocracy.

True, Frank Wolf did not spring from the intellectual and political aristocracy of the American Founding; nor did he serve as ambassador, senator, secretary of state, and president; nor is he a crusty curmudgeon like the Adams portrayed brilliantly by Anthony Hopkins in the film Amistad.

Not exact matches

The drive to break the power of landed aristocracies in Britain, France and other countries became the major political fight from the century spanning 1815 and World War I.

Beginning with Polybios in the 2nd century BC, many political philosophers concluded that the best constitution is one that incorporates elements of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy into a composite form.

In the process, Christianity absorbed much from the aristocracy» in attitudes toward wealth, family, honor, the importance of friendship, and political power.

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Indeed, Prussian Pietists found their greatest support from the centralizing state itself, which was struggling to gain control over the feudal aristocracy; so Pietism gradually took on political attitudes that supported absolutism.

It means self - government of a given body of people, as contrasted with non-democratic political systems in which rule is in the hands of a hereditary monarch, of a dictator, of an aristocracy (noblemen or intellectuals), of a class (rich people, the proletariat, or priests), or of a limited party.

The feudal aristocracies of the Middle Ages were one by one overturned by the forces of modern political, economic, and religious life.

Despotic capitalism, on the other hand, is characterized by control of the government by an individual or a relatively small group such as military junta, an aristocracy or elite class, or a minority political party.

So if Tocqueville is right that the partial truth of democracy needs to be corrected by the partial truth of aristocracy to properly appreciate both who we are and what human liberty really is, then lots of political philosophy types need to look to the South more than they have.

An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and The Future of America by Benjamin R. Barber Ballantine Books, 370 pages, $ 20 «In the spring of 1988,» writes Benjamin Barber, a professor of political science at Rutgers, «[University] President Edward Bloustein gave a....

There is no attempt to show how there were differences within the aristocracy, and how many families lived up to a reputation as good people who helped to advance, political engagement, the arts and science.

Since 1945, for the Thatcherites, the Conservative Party — and consequently British society — had committed a series of betrayals: the Unionist Party had surrendered the Union; the Imperial Party sacrificed the Empire; the Party of aristocracy hastened its political demise, and the Tories accepted — even pioneered — greater state intervention and welfare.

By the Aristotelian conception of the Politic Systems there are 3 fundamental political systems: the monarchy, the aristocracy and the republic, with their 3 corruption forms: the tyranny, the oligarchy and the democracy.

While there are plenty of biographies that chronicle the political lives of eighteenth century Russian aristocracy, few labor to uncover the private, personal lives of those individuals.

In Brazil, the Church never enjoyed such political and economic parity with the state and the lay aristocracy.

The slave owners constituted for the most part a feudal, landowning aristocracy that dominated both the economic and the political life of the South, and indeed to a considerable extent of the nation.

Graham Keen, now 80, photographed the new pop aristocracy, CND marchers and political agitators, working for Oz underground magazine.

Your political punditry on this one is expected (you keep favouring the right even when they are so wrong)-- you are re living the 1970s with right heroes living in your head (and 30 years later the aristocracies are riding high and everyone else is sinking but you cant face it),

Whatever the political motivations of people in relation to environmentalist issues, one thing is for sure; the Greenpeace hippies, the Schmidts, Manns, Turners, Gates etc. are foot - soldier dupes for an overarching agenda by the landed aristocracy of Europe and their Fascist fellow travelers.

Private law as suggested above is a return to feudal law in which the political and economic powerful «made» the law and it was by way of political revolutions this legal regime was defeated: English Revolution of the 17th century; American Revolution against the English monarchy and aristocracy; the French Revolution against the Monarchy and Aristocracy, and the Russian and the Chinese Revolutions were of the same rootaristocracy; the French Revolution against the Monarchy and Aristocracy, and the Russian and the Chinese Revolutions were of the same rootAristocracy, and the Russian and the Chinese Revolutions were of the same root cause (s).