Sentences with phrase «where arbitrary power»

The Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.

Politics in Spires, together with OurKingdom, IPPR and the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton, are hosting the Great Charter Convention — an open, public debate on where arbitrary power lies in the UK today and how we should contest and contain it.

Children are pefectly familiar with a system where arbitrary power is handed to people simply because of familial relationships.

Not exact matches

Each of these concepts is under attack today, to a point where it is forgotten that their purpose is to limit, not expand, the arbitrary use of power.

applies to be sure only where law is created not by some arbitrary decree but by a process which can reflect the public mind, 43 But where this process exists, the man who finds the law lying across his path is confronted not only with a political power but with a moral judgment.

We have now reached the point where the Prime Minister has in practice a degree of arbitrary power few, if any, English and no Scottish monarchs have rivalled.

Throughout, we will keep as our central focus the fundamental question: Where does arbitrary power lie today - and how can we contest and contain it?

So the upcoming anniversary is an opportunity to ask: Where does arbitrary power lie in our society today?

Cooper Union's Board of Trustees proposed a Code of Conduct that would obliterate the power of students in the student judiciary system, give autonomous and arbitrary punitive power to a few select administrators, and create an oppressive and threatening environment where censorship limits...