Sentences with phrase «social compact»

Third, the report contends that we need to develop a new social compact between society and our young people.

Thus relying on the present social compact to last is risky.

By learning new ways to minimize human causes of animal suffering, our species is charged with creating a new identity and new social compacts with fellow human beings.

«This is really part of a broader conversation across America about what a 21st - century social compact should look like,» Thomas E. Perez, the labor secretary, said in an interview.

Here, for example, is the Calvinist philosopher Gordon Clark, who sketches the contrast in these terms: «The authority of magistrates does not derive from any voluntary social compact, but it derives from God.»

There is a sense that the fundamental fairness that is a critical part of the American social compact has been lost, and I think that as attorney general, I would work not just to see that everybody plays by the rules but to restore public confidence in big banks, insurance companies.

Britain needs a new social compact that will protect people against risk, devolve power downward and provide opportunities for getting on.

As we said in our Global Forum, the business community has an opportunity now to reaffirm its social compact with the world.

Whether citizens accept a diminution of the social compact that provides a cradle - to - grave safety net will undoubtedly affect the pace of reforms.

Though undoubtedly a disciple of John Locke and his teaching on the social compact, Madison was also indebted to a much older tradition, one reaching back to ancient Greece and Rome by way of writers like James Harrington and Algernon Sidney.

For Madison, the social compact was a serious matter: if government was to be legitimate, it had to respect the limits laid down by the popular sovereign.

He knows that the fundamentals of the social compact — the state of nature, the motive of self - preservation, the origin of government in consent — are too central to the thought of the period to be ignored.

The intuition that a civil society» which thinks of itself not from above as God's ordinance but from below as a social compact» needs somehow to take responsibility for executing one of its citizens is sound.

In their view, those who don't work or who don't work productively fail to keep their end of the social compact.

Nevertheless, the assertion of rights is not an adequate basis for a healthy society even when it is combined with a social compact.

The self - described «alt - right» is a violation of the social compact, a dangerous blight on humanity and all that is decent.

First, it appointed in 2009 a seven - member Constitutional Committee comprising mostly academics from a range of fields, including law, literature, and science, thus implicitly acknowledging that the constitution is not exclusively, and not even principally, a legal document, but primarily a social compact, a political declaration that supersedes ordinary legislation by virtue of the fact that the people are superior to Parliament.

A social compact would mean a fair contributory welfare policy Where people feel they get out when they put in.

Without an attitude adjustment, they're on track to help the president betray Social Security and other essential parts of the social compact.

The ANC must forge a new social compact

They are redefining the social compact and stepping up for children and our future.»

The argument for this approach draws on the secret to the success of Social Security: The social compact (and the willingness to pay for it) works better if a program provides an entitlement for everyone.

This would also require them to admit that their «social compact» is little more than a step back to the bad old days before No Child's passage, when states, districts, teachers, and school leaders were allowed to ignore the needs of poor and minority children with impunity.

Your editor was too busy putting together this week's Dropout Nation analysis on overuse of harsh school discipline in the D.C. metro area to pay much attention to the announcements made by a group of education associations, old - school civil rights, and advocacy groups led by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers calling for a «new social compact» on accountability.

Together with 17 other leading education groups, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) has signed a new social compact that unites a diverse coalition of education leaders around accountability systems that aim to improve education.

Work in all media addressing contemporary challenges to our civil liberties, moral fabric, social compacts, political institutions, and environment were considered by juror Harry Philbrick.

They were also part of the social compact between the public and the municipalities or other governmental organizations that built and maintained the parks.

Packard funded the efforts of Jane Lubchenco, a noted marine scientist with dreams of a «new social compact» to convert impartial scientists into dogmatic advocates with policy goals, efforts that led to her appointment by President Obama to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, where she regulated the New England fishing fleet nearly out of existence.

Social compacts are the alternative to big government.

This is an essentially contractarian conception of the Constitution, which sees it as the manifestation of a social compact.

It's kind of ironic that the resolution IMHO looks more like a social compact than an all out conflict of rich vs. poor.

Judge Rogers then put the question plainly: How do our courts maintain their role in the social compact as a branch of democratic government?

The document reminds us that «universities have a social compact with society.»

But to successfully preserve its wealth, a family must form a social compact among its members reflecting its shared values, and each successive generation must reaffirm and readopt that social compact.

This underscores the social compact lawyers enter into to represent individual clients as well as society at large.

It puts a high premium on partner selection and development, and requires attention to ensure that partners uphold all aspects of the social compact, not just in terms of their contribution but also in how they reflect the values of the partnership.