Sentences with phrase «traditional liberal views»

A theory of constitutional law that may be out of fashion in today's legal academy, but that fits comfortably within the modern conservative and the traditional liberal views of the courts, begins with certain basic premises: the existence of law and the possibility of meaningful rules of law.

Not exact matches

Whether one views constitutional interpretation as grounded in a theory of original meaning or the traditional liberal theory of judicial restraint and neutral principles, the distinctive nature of this approach is that it is legal in nature.

• Traditional liberals, writes our friend Robert P. George, have promoted their views as a way that people holding conflicting comprehensive doctrines» «an integrated set of beliefs about the human good, human dignity, and human destiny»» can live together.

You've got to give as much airtime to conservative views as liberal ones, equal time in debate to secular and religious views, the same column width to progressive and traditional opinion.

There are also those who claim the same faith but pick and choose what tenets of that faith they want to believe and follow and they are the «unorthodox» (Not adhering to the accepted or traditional and established faith) or «liberal» (Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian views).

Modern reformation movements in traditional Indian religions especially the movements of Neo-Hinduism indicated the impact of modernity on Indian life at its religious level, and India's liberal democratic and leftist ideologies guiding the struggle for political independence and nation - building in independent India, indicate the assimilation of Enlightenment humanism at the ideological level, though qualified a great deal by the reformed religious view of Gandhism.

They way Steve, Brigitte and aDK view the bible, for instance, is actually quite modren and less consistent with tradition than cetain liberal protestant denomination — they're calim that they are the keepers of Christian traditionals is just that: they're claim.

Traditional religious values, such as justice and charity, are now viewed as liberal and secular.

The Times is, of course, widely viewed as a liberal bastion and represents the traditional Democratic base that Cuomo has been counting on as in the bag while he moves to the center to court independents and Republicans.

An eminent lawyer with liberal views on religion, slavery, and republicanism, Wythe saw little benefit in the drudgery of traditional legal training and preferred to have his students read law reports and foundational English legal writings, such as those by Sir Edward Coke.

If one can dare to summarise so rich and lucid a lifetime's argument, Dworkin rejected both the traditional view, that judges must conform to established authority, and the belief of American liberals, that judges should seek to improve society, with a new emphasis on the judge's responsibility to uphold individual and collective morality.

The court overturned the lower decisions, deciding that the traditional view of a partnership should prevail, with the result that «a partner can not be an employee of the partnership of which he or she is a member, because he or she can not employ him or herself» and that this view was not to be «over-ridden by a broad, liberal and purposive interpretation of the Code.»

KCRW's Left, Right & Center follows a traditional debate structure — a liberal commentator and a conservative commentator battling it out — and throws in a moderator whose views land squarely in the center.