Sentences with phrase «structure of a democratic society»

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Consumerism and privatization undermine the very institutional basis of democracy — that is, the structure of voluntary association, the civil society, without which democracy becomes, as Tocqueville warned, democratic despotism or the rule of an economic aristocracy.

Would it be possible to use Whitehead's notion of society (or, better, of a structured society) to describe the Trinity as a community of coequal persons who are themselves in process, hence who are subordinate personally ordered societies within the «democratic» structured society which is the community as such?

At the heart of Western society resides the contradiction between patriarchal structures and democratic aspirations.

Granted, the outcome may not be a sharply defined «civil religion» — one that could be universally recognized as such — but at the least it can be anticipated that some kind of «political religion» will be more likely to emerge in societies where legal structures take on meaning - bestowal qualities.6 Obviously such political religion can emerge in «totalitarian» as well as «democratic» societies, but in either setting it will be the law and not mere coercion that facilitates social development.

In January, a group of trade unionists met with the Electoral Reform Society to discuss the key role that unions play in society's democratic structures — and to start drafting a Charter for Democratic Society to discuss the key role that unions play in society's democratic structures — and to start drafting a Charter for Democratic society's democratic structures — and to start drafting a Charter for Democratdemocratic structures — and to start drafting a Charter for DemocraticDemocratic Reform.