Sentences with phrase «republican political tradition»

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Since the «republican» tradition did not prevail among a majority of convention delegates, Arthur suggests that we must look elsewhere to find the main current of American political thought.

The republicans (i.e., the reluctant supporters and anti-Federalist opponents of the new Constitution) supported a tradition of political thought that wanted to see government «make of its citizens the best people they are capable of becoming,» to inculcate moral virtue as it was defined by each concrete political community.

But the Republicans benefitted greatly from changes within another religious tradition, as Evangelical Protestants simultaneously moved away from Democratic partisanship and toward both greater political involvement and Republican partisanship.

The lack of attention to the diversity and particularity of thinkers in the republican tradition impoverishes it and so makes it less useful and attractive to us as a source from which we can draw contemporary political inspiration.

Insofar as figures in the republican tradition have shared something like Pettit's ideal, they have been aware that political disagreement means that coercion is inevitable, and the question is who does it to whom.

Any attempt to draw on the republican tradition for contemporary political insight needs to be aware, then, of the variety of thinkers who fall within it and the specificity of the problems they were trying to solve.

The question of the place of military training in relation to civil and political life arises for some theorists, especially in republican traditions.

A conservative tradition may be intellectually inspiring but can not achieve results; the conservative mobilization after 1964 which accelerated in the 1970s and was further boosted by the Reagan victory produced a movement which reinforced, though was sometimes at odds with, the Republican Party and was able to elect candidates and project itself in the political arena.

Politics in Spires: The recent revival of republican political theory has sometimes presented the republican tradition as united around a conception of liberty — liberty as non-domination — and a set of institutional prescriptions.

The idea of a republican economy does not belong to any specific, narrowly - defined ideological tradition — it cuts across them — and it certainly does not belong to any particular political party.

Contemporary civic republicans have drawn on insights from the classical republican tradition in developing their political doctrines.

Worse yet, the tradition of «republican» political thinking seems to have only extreme answers available to it.

This is especially true since the party had already fulfilled its tradition of backing a token Republican when it endorsed political newcomer Harry Wilson against Democratic state Controller Tom DiNapoli.