Sentences with phrase «sound moral principle»
My hope more than anything is that our country be led by a good person of sound moral principle.
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As someone in his late 40s (I literally ride the line between being a baby boomer and the oldest of the Gen - X crowd), I can appreciate much of what is said in the article, except that instead of the church being old - fashioned, I tend to see it as the church adhering to established sound doctrine and moral principles.
To find a principle through the natural law reasoning of judges that makes the Constitution mean something other than, sometimes opposite to, what those who voted to make it law understood themselves to mean can hardly be sound moral argument.
A faction, for Madison, is defined not by how much it would encroach upon the autonomous individual but by its dedication to moral and political principles inimical to sound and just governance.
Thus, for example, the judge must decide cases on the basis of those moral principles that «figure -LSB--RSB- in the soundest theory of law that can be provided as a justification for the explicit substantive and institutional rules of the jurisdiction in question» (Dworkin 1977, 66).