Sentences with phrase «to participate in public debate»

However, like any online forum with so many people participating in a public debate at once, sometimes the noise still finds a way to slip through the cracks.

Non-poor, non-minority families love their kids and have every right to participate in the public debate about public education.

As if this were not enough, they run a frequently updated blog on energy issues — one recent entry, entitled «Coat and Tie Sustainability», delves in to the difficulties of participating in public debate on energy issues, and on picking through the greenwash from utility companies and other vested interests:

A SLAPP may also intimidate others from participating in public debate and protest from fear of being sued.

A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is a claim filed against individuals participating in public debate as a means of silencing them.

We reduce the number of those who can be seen and heard, can make their wants known, and can participate in public debate.

Arendt concludes On Revolution by suggesting we try once again to build structures of government in this country through which at every level all who want to participate in public debate can do so.

Richard Rorty once notoriously called the invocation of God's will a «conversation stopper,» expressing the now «standard view that citizens who are believers must first assume a public identity as rational, ahistorical persons before venturing to participate in public debate, reserving their private identity as believers for more domestic spheres, as if religion were a hobby such as fly «fishing or building model trains.

He encouraged lay Catholics, who were as uninterested in progressive accommodationism as they were put off by Lefebvrist intransigence, to participate in public debates.

In addition to creating art, Zorach wrote, lectured, and participated in public debates.

The problem with the Michael Mann sort of scientist is that, rather than practicing science quietly behind the scenes, they want to participate in the public debate.

I think judges have a responsibility to participate in the public debate and that's what I hope to do here — all consistent with, indeed enhancing, my «day» job.»