Sentences with phrase «principles of a democratic republic»

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For a republic, and especially for its democratic rather than aristocratic form, the principle of social life is virtue, which James Sellers has recently paraphrased in more modern language as «willed initiative.»

It was a longstanding principle of the civic republican tradition that power follows wealth; and for that reason a rough equality of property was assumed to be one of the prerequisites of a democratic republic.

Under the Third Republic which followed (1875 - 1945), republicanism of the kind represented by Vacherot, which seeks to bring democratic principles directly into the economic sphere, became increasingly marginalised.

According to President Akufo - Addo, «they have manifested, in the 4th Republic, their deep attachment to the principles of democratic accountability, respect for individual liberties and human rights, and the rule of law.»

Also in November, former Wake County superintendent Del Burns, who resigned on principle when conservatives began trying to re-segregate the public schools, released a significant new book, Preserving the Public in Public Schools, which details the importance of pursuing integrated education and drives home the larger message that the broader purpose of public education is to preserve our democratic republic.