Sentences with phrase «rules of political debate»

Now, after Ronald Reagan rewrote the rules of political debate, it's backwards: the Democrats find themselves promising to follow Republican market initiatives, only with more heart and less human cost.

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Opposing views of right and wrong are best addressed and accommodated in a democratic political debate, with the judiciary serving the vital but secondary role of ensuring that basic rights are protected to prevent oppression of minorities by majoritarian rule.

Christians may also he attracted to an approach advanced by former Harvard professor John Hart Ely who argues that courts should not themselves choose substantive constitutional values, but should issue rulings that keep the processes of political debate and decision - making open to all.

As the divine right monarchy came increasingly in the eighteenth century to defend its positions on the grounds of administrative reason and enlightened reform, the discourse of those resisting its rule also relied less on traditional religious appeals and more on secular ones, but the religious roots of all sides of the political and social debate were only obscured, never severed.

This recent ruling has global media commentators on all sides of the political aisle debating whether this issue is an affront to religious freedom or a victory to protect the foreskins of young male babies around the world.

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It will — or it should — rule the question of secession out of political debate for a long period of time, and the Scotland Act should be amended to help bring about this end.

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) says the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) can not boycott this year's debate slated for September, saying the debate is for the good of the political parties and so it will not be in their best interest to boycott it.

But the defining characteristics of modern politics in the United States are a corrupt campaign finance system that enables corporate and wealthy elites to purchase political outcomes; and an abundance of anti-democratic electoral, ballot access and debate rules designed to minimize participation and choice.

Establishing curiosity, respect and even ground rules around the hot political topics of the day will allow your students more creativity, as well as allowing them to profoundly explore and understand that they are a part of history and that their dialogue, advocacy and compassion informs national debate.

And the other great moral and political questions of the great debate on salt and iron — the need for profits, the rights and obligations of nobility, aid to the poor, the importance of a balanced budget, the appropriate tax burden, the risk of anarchy, and the dividing line between rule of law and tyranny — have all remained unresolved issues.

For a bunch of wonky government regulations, the newly proposed EPA rule for existing power plants, announced yesterday, has inspired heated debate from both sides of the political spectrum — the most rabid, naturally, coming from the far right.

The rationales for the extension of the actual malice rule to public figures are congruent with those enunciated in the Cusson, Grant, and WIC Radio decisions: «the public need for uninhibited debate about the activities and opinions of those with informal political and social power.»