Sentences with phrase «republican tradition of»

The concept was also an important aspect of the more radical 17th - century republican tradition of Spinoza, from whom Rousseau differed in important respects, but not in his insistence on the importance of equality:

(CNN)-- Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad suggested it may be time to lay the idiosyncratic Iowa Republican tradition of the Ames Straw Poll to rest.

The historian Quentin Skinner and the philosopher Philip Pettit have in recent years revived a distinctively republican tradition of thought about liberty.

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«I bet that the Republicans follow the short - term tradition of forgoing debate and simply voting to disapprove the rule, dumping years of work down the drain because an industry lobbyist asked them to.»

These would include tradition, guidance by accumulated wisdom, constitutionalism, and a civic republican vision of the orator as an ethical representative of the formation and endurance of a beneficial community.

They say that «Most Americans, 60 %, know that presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is a Mormon» (which would mean that 40 % don't know) and that «32 % of Americans don't know that Romney is Mormon, and another 9 % identify him as the member of another tradition, the Pew survey found.»

Another vision of democracy; however, sees it not only in terms of its result (private freedoms) but in terms of its foundation upon the virtues known in the classic tradition as «republican» or «civic» virtues.

Instead my four co-authors and I speak of «the biblical and republican traditions,» which we do not claim to be identical but which we see as deeply interrelated.

Huffington Post: Newt Gingrich's Catholic Conversion Is Part of a Larger Spiritual Shift in His Life and Politics As former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's star continues to rise ahead of GOP Republican primaries, he has had less time for what in recent years has become a calming, soothing Sunday tradition: sitting in the pews at the cavernous National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, praying to Jesus and the Virgin Mary during noon Mass while listening to his wife sing in the choir.

They were the product of an extensive study of traditions of republican thought and institutions from the entire history of the West.

Republican religion did much to lay the historical groundwork for the tradition of religious liberty and limited separation of church and state, as it did to nurture creative minorities like the abolitionists, social gospelers, and civil - rights protesters.

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.

If this analysis is correct, Evangelicals and committed members of other religious traditions could find themselves united in the Republican Party facing Seculars and less committed members in other traditions among the Democrats.

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.

Somehow we have never established a strong academic tradition of self - reflection about the meaning of our institutions, and as our institutions changed and our republican mores corroded, even what knowledge we had began to slip away.

Behind the best of our languages they find, as Tocqueville did, relatively inert traditions that all five authors presumably wish were more active: biblical thought and imagery, and republican discourse and institutions.

Carter then proceeds to show how various events (like the Civil War), conditions (like the closing of the frontier), ideas (like popular views of religion and science), and personalities (like Presidents and cultural arbiters) have challenged, imperiled, undermined, stretched, invigorated, defended, or nourished that republican tradition.

Yet contrary to his belief that this restoration of the epic republican tradition is no longer possible, a powerful and vibrant strand of revolutionary republicanism continued to flourish in Europe and the rest of the world throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

The ideal Pettit claims characterises the republican tradition is that of freedom as non-domination, an understanding eclipsed by Bentham's Hobbes - inspired polemics against the rebellious North American colonists.

This should hardly be surprising, given the breadth and depth of the republican tradition, but it is disappointing, given Pettit's public role as, for example, an assessor of the republican credentials of Zapatero's government in Spain.

Nor is that to say anything of the Francophone or German republican traditions through the eighteenth and nineteenth century, in which theorists as different as Fichte and Tocqueville can be located, or of the forms (anti--RRB- colonial republicanism took outside the eastern seaboard of North America.

The work to create free republicans is a pattern of practice as much as it is a tradition of thought, and anonymity is the essence of virtuous republican practice.

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.

Accordingly, this collective work to create revolutions, and the revolutions themselves, provide a furnace of ideas that shaped the republican tradition more than anything else: these mechanisms, these virtues, these practices, all define the collective endeavour to build republics.

Thus, Pettit's reconstruction of the republican tradition does at least two unfortunate things.

A republican tradition without either The Federalist Papers or The Social Contract, texts which are clearly central to the two great republican revolutions of the late eighteenth century in France and North America, would be rather poor though.

More specifically, particular notions of slavery that were drawn upon when establishing conceptions of liberty amongst a broad variety of republican movements had a profound influence on the way the tradition coheres.

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.

Other figures in the republican tradition could be used to show the strangeness of Pettit's view too.

The collection of essays from around the globe explores a renewed interest in the republican tradition.

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

Rousseau was a republican who applied these principles to his thinking on the economy, and it is this tradition of economic republicanism that is now being re-examined within academia.

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 republican tradition brings in to sharper focus than any other the problem of human freedom among human beings who are necessarily independent.

The measure backed by Sen. Brad Hoylman is squarely aimed at one candidate from the last year: Republican President - elect Donald Trump, who refused to submit to the post-Watergate scandal tradition of releasing tax information.

This view of property, prominent in Rousseau and presupposed in the broader republican tradition, is scarcely questionable in view of the salient diversity in systems of property.

That the radical democracy and participatory budgeting practiced by these citizen - led movements are not commonly read as republican signifies the failure of the tradition to shed the legacy of its classical roots.

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.

The democratic republican tradition goes back to Athens after 461 BCE with the triumph of a revolutionary democratic programme led by the poor (free men) of the polis.

Freedom in the republican tradition requires enjoyment of the fundamental liberties with the security that only a rule of law can provide.

«The Democratic Party heals much more quickly than the Republican Party because we experience a lot more in terms of primaries and our party has a history and a tradition of disagreeing.

Accepting this slogan risks failing to learn from a rich republican tradition, whose insights are relevant to many of the social and economic problems being encountered today, not simply the emergence of a super-wealthy economic elite.

The democratic republican tradition was missing in action for most of the next half century.

Reeves and Collins are happy to let the House of Lords «wither on the vine», express an anti-pluralist instinct for unicameralism rather more common in the collectivist tradition than the democratic republican one.

Trump's apparent commitment to stand by incumbent Republican senators against his former campaign CEO and White House strategist shows that even a tradition - bucking president may hew to the party line in the interest of moving his agenda forward and maintaining a governing majority.

Throughout Suffolk County's rich Republican history and tradition, the Suffolk County GOP has led efforts in promoting party principles of fiscal responsibility and accountability, limited government, opportunity for all and a strong national defense.

For current purposes, however, they help to demonstrate the commercial republicans can not fully avoid the concern with corruption — the privileging of private interests over the common good — that exercised the classical republican tradition.

Rousseau's ideas about the common good and citizenship place him in a classical tradition of republican thought that was mostly hostile to commerce and commercial society.

Spain is an example of a nation that has been guided by republican principles, drawing on a long and deeply ingrained republican tradition in that country.