Sentences with phrase «political equality»

Political democracy is based on the principle of political equality.

Though political equality and complete justice for blacks is still a long way off, it is no longer out of sight.

The attainment of collective human dignity for all citizens goes beyond political equality, freedom and political participation.

This has significantly limited any effort to promote political equality through regulation of campaign spending and contributions.

The relation of political equality to money is one of the matters that the democratic debate itself must settle.

Nativists argued that Catholics lacked the mental freedom required for political equality, with the «Know Nothings,» for example, swearing their members to vote against «all... Roman Catholics.»

Pretensions to political equality with Muslims could also lead to violent retaliation.

When apartheid ended, Iqbal was disillusioned to see that political equality did not close the nation's enormous economic gap and decided that pursuing a business career was the best way he could contribute to his country's transformation.

Despite the dramatic inequality in wealth and income, a substantial number of our fellow citizens do not think that financially unregulated campaigns betray political equality, since they believe that the division of money in our society is socially just.

In a recent book, the distinguished American political scientist Robert A. Dahl offers an optimistic vision in which «an increasing awareness that the dominant culture of competitive consumerism does not lead to greater happiness gives way to a culture of citizenship that strongly encourages movement toward greater political equality among American citizens.»

Allen offers the case that the Declaration of Independence is a syllogism for political equality, rather than a manifesto of unlinked assertions.

Our partners in Senegal are working to to harmonize national abortion policy with the Maputo Protocol, an agreement adopted by the African Union that guarantees comprehensive rights to women, including the right to take part in the political process, the right to social and political equality with men, and the right to control their reproductive health.

Consider, for example, the progress made in attitudes toward women's economic and political equality in the last century, the change in the acceptability of smoking in the last twenty years or the change in attitudes toward same - sex marriage in the last ten years.

Remarkably, the BJP, while doing away with one plank of Indian democracy, couldn't abandon the rhetoric of political equality.

In a world from which freedom of competition, equality of opportunity, and social fraternity begin to disappear, political equality is illusory, and democracy becomes a dream.

For the people of Palestine, suffering under the Roman regime, it must have been as hard to believe this as it is today in the United States of America for people struggling to achieve economic and political equality of opportunity, or as it is for the native people of Palestine or Vietnam who are exiled from their homes and dependent upon the scanty bounty of the United Nations and charitable organizations.

As for political equality, Charles Fox said in 1797: «It has never been suggested in all the theories and projects of the most absurd speculation, that it would be advisable to extend the elective suffrage to the female sex.»

One view is that we are a republic, a nation characterized by public participation in the exercise of power, political equality of its citizens, a wide distribution of property with few very rich or very poor, customs of public - spirited involvement, and a willingness of citizens to sacrifice their own interests for the common good.

On the left the tension between economic inequality and political equality is of course a major theme in Marxist and post-Marxist work.

The Deepening Democracy report, published by the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy & Security, highlights that «The rise of uncontrolled political finance threatens to hollow out democracy everywhere in the world, and rob democracy of its unique strengths — political equality, the empowerment of the disenfranchised, and the ability to manage societal conflicts peacefully.»

According to her website, Teachout believes in «economic and political equality» and is against «concentration of wealth and control in the hands of the few.»

The former UN Secretary General called for political equality and the need to fight the incidence of unregulated money in politics which leads to vote buying and bribery by candidates.

«We support full legal and political equality for all persons, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, characteristics, and expression.

In keeping with the Green Key Values of diversity, social justice and feminism, we support full legal and political equality for all persons, regardless of sex, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, characteristics, and expression.

She is currently working on books on citizenship in the digital age and political equality and directs The Democratic Knowledge Project, a group of research projects on knowledge and democracy.

Artist Statement «This is a powerful word, first penned in 1895 at a time when efforts towards women's political equality were growing.

The forms and methods of feminist art have since broadened and reflect a more globally informed perspective that still retain the goals of social, economic, and political equality.

Their repetition, and Warhol's obsession with working in series, are not just formal devices — though they were a slap against the individualism of abstract expressionism — but emblems of political equality.

This afternoon the Home Secretary said that that was all right, but that what was wanted was political equality, where his party would have an equal chance.