Sentences with phrase «voluntary association»

The boards may continue as voluntary associations of council leaders.

Here, the church as voluntary association in somewhat like a religious civic club.

The federal frame of government encouraged people to balance public good and private interest, as did intermediate institutions such as voluntary associations and the structure of family life.

The personal responsibility taught and practiced in the churches led to the establishment of other voluntary associations to meet community needs.

Second, as noted, I want a government that leaves as much room for voluntary associations of whatever sort.

It is no mere voluntary association, along the lines of the local garden club, the bird watching society or the professional group.

Lawyers are always free to form voluntary associations of their own, apart from any state bar exam.

First is strong voluntary associations, such as churches and civic groups, that bring people together around broad common agendas rather than narrow special interests.

They must be balanced by strong moral and cultural institutions, such as families, schools, churches and other voluntary associations that serve the common good.

The democratic ideal is fulfilled in proportion to the opportunity provided for voluntary association, communication, movement, and occupation.

«Mediating institutions» is a clunky and amorphous term, but generally refers to entities that are formed by voluntary association and exist between government and the individual — that is, civil society.

The Canadian Chiropractic Association (CCA) is a national, voluntary association representing Canada's licensed doctors of chiropractic and the 10 provincial chiropractic associations which are its charter members.

I noted several of these institutional changes: (1) Churches became voluntary associations in a strict sense, though lines around religious liberty or «free exercise» were (are) difficult to draw in this «separation» of church and state.

An anarchist advocates stateless societies based on voluntary associations.

His 1984 speech to the National Religious Broadcasters is particularly revealing, for there he most obviously makes public a piety which is essentially personal, even private — a piety which takes social form in intimate, bounded and family - like voluntary associations that see themselves in tension with the larger society even as they claim to be its spiritual center.

By: Jessica Oosthuizen 27th April 2018 The issue of discounting the professional fees of consulting engineers, driven by public sector and private sector clients alike, is plaguing the sustainability of the consulting engineering industry, says voluntary association Consulting Engineers South Africa (Cesa) CEO Chris Campbell.

First Things and other independent publications, as well as individuals and voluntary associations within the churches, may be as political as they wish or as they deem prudent.

Families, neighborhoods, work teams, church and other voluntary associations mediate between the lone individual and the power of the state.

Rather the denominations and their arms for co-operative endeavors, the Societies, were primarily purposive, voluntary associations engaged in the free society in the propagandization of the Gospel — each according to its own light, understanding, and ingenuity.

The other keystone that's relevant here is voluntary association through contracts.

The word society may also refer to an organized voluntary association of people for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.

Churches and voluntary associations taught reading and dealt with education matters geared toward assimilation.

As both of these initiatives demonstrate, individual lawyers, modest voluntary associations and small law firms and individuals with imagination, commitment and energy can also contribute incrementally to meeting the objectives of alleviating poverty, creating empowerment and promoting the rule of law.

About Blog A voluntary association of both hobbyist and professional beekeepers.

The Appellate Court of Illinois first addressed the notice claim, stating that courts may «annual expulsions from voluntary associations... when the expulsions are contrary to rudimentary due process or natural justice.»

The Canadian Chiropractic Association (CCA) is a national, voluntary association representing Canada's licensed doctors of chiropractic and the 10 provincial chiropractic associations which are its charter members.

Most notably, liberalism has sought to reconfigure as many communities as possible, including the institutional church, as mere voluntary associations.

The second model of the church that is operating in North America is the church as voluntary association.

It was adopted as part of the official party doctrine at the NSDAP congress in 1920 to express a worldview which was Christian, non-confessional, vigorously opposed to the spirit of «Jewish Materialism», and oriented to the principle of voluntary association of those with a common racial - ethnic background.

Moreover, as the 19th century progressed, evangelical Protestants availed themselves of the wide freedom accorded them under the First Amendment to form voluntary associations, the goal of whose activities was the erection of a de facto religious establishment in America.

In an April, 2003, speech, Harper defined social conservatism as «respect for custom and traditions (religious traditions above all), voluntary association, and personal self - restraint reinforced by moral and legal sanctions on behaviour.»

A legal relationship created by the voluntary association of two or more persons to carry on as co-owners of a business for profit.

Other checks are exercised by the «independent sector»» churches, voluntary associations, labor unions, foundations, and, to some extent, universities.

The voluntary associations of human beings characterized by contractual arrangements (as in the «social contract» so persistently advocated by Enlightenment thinkers from John Locke in the seventeenth century to John Rawls today) are clearly subsequent to and dependent on the anterior ways humans are related to each other through communal bonds.

The teaching of «oughts» properly belongs in the hands of private, voluntary associations — churches, families, neighborhood groups.

Through churches, voluntary associations, local governments, and a variety of institutions, conservatives strive to keep community healthy.

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.

Churches are voluntary associations and if you don't like them you don't have to go to them.

Brigitte August 13, 2011 12:38 pm Churches are voluntary associations and if you don't like them you don't have to go to them.

A church became a voluntary association, in competition with perhaps hundreds of others.

In the phrase of the UUA's best - known social ethicist, James Luther Adams, these churches and this denomination are «voluntary associations.»

A more explicit theologian, with UU identification and salience, is James Luther Adams, who has focused on social ethics and the religious role of voluntary associations.

Believing God alone is the Lord of the conscience, Baptists deny that civil magistrates have any legitimate authority to regulate or coerce the internal religious life of voluntary associations.