Sentences with phrase «system of constitutional democracy»

It would be incongruous and futile to charge teachers with the task of imbuing their students with an understanding of our system of constitutional democracy, while at the same time immunizing those same teachers from the need to respect constitutional protections.

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The traditional system possessed one specific form which, just as a matter of political mechanics, did more than anything else to convert a constitutional democracy into semi-democratic constitutionalism.

In «Democracy and its Crisis» published this week, philosopher Professor A C Grayling concludes with a study of Trump and Brexit: «No constitutional system should allow a partisan group to hijack the interests of the whole: this is happening in the UK and the US as these words are being written.»

Constitutional democracy began to resemble its present form when, at the turn of the 18th Century, Parliament revolted against the system of press censorship and monopolistic control over the book trade and passed the first Copyright Act, which sought to create a competitive market system based on limited copyrights.