Sentences with phrase «reasons in our constitutional democracy»

Whatever one thinks of the appropriate federal role in education, there are surely strong reasons in our constitutional democracy to prefer that we get to where we are going through law rather than executive edict.

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In constitutional democracies, people tend to think in terms of dichotomies — faith and reason, church and state, public and private, executive and legislaturIn constitutional democracies, people tend to think in terms of dichotomies — faith and reason, church and state, public and private, executive and legislaturin terms of dichotomies — faith and reason, church and state, public and private, executive and legislature.

For this reason, most parliamentary democracies have developed rules to govern these situations, often in the form of constitutional laws.

Throughout the evidence session, Mr Copson emphasised that there was no constitutional reason to have automatic places for the Bishops, and anyone who argued for their retention was simply arguing to extend a religious privilege which has no place in a modern, liberal and diverse democracy.