Sentences with phrase «which constitutional democracy»

Allowing a pariah and disgraced leader such as Mugabe asylum in our country would be an affront to the values and principles upon which our constitutional democracy is based,» Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota, said.

For the deterioration of higher education throughout the United States in the past several generations has contributed mightily to our contemporary cultural crisis, and the cultural crisis, by depleting the nation's reserves of republican virtue, has in turn produced a political crisis in which constitutional democracy itself is now at risk.

Not exact matches

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.

The time has come for politicians to stop hiding behind unjust laws that they themselves helped to enact, and to abandon that convenient shield of demanding a vote on the rights of full citizenship because they do not understand the difference between a constitutional democracy, which this nation has, and a «mobocracy,» which this nation rejected when it adopted its constitution.

I would say that those whose adherence to the mathematical rationality of policy is the end all and be all of answering our needs must also recognize the forms and formalities of the constitutional liberal democracy under which we live.

And it's very unhealthy for democracy when the courts — without clear constitutional warrant — deprive citizens of the opportunity to have a say in setting the conditions under which we live, work, and raise our children.

The sovereign state, even the constitutional democracy that's supposed to recognize and strive to support the inalienable rights of its citizens, nonetheless holds the power to kill its citizens with direct intent and thereby to alienate from them an essential right, which is to continue living.

All democracies in the world are Constitutional save for the UK and New Zealand, which are Parliamentary (the legislature makes the ultimate law)(Australia may qualify as they have Constitutional Law, but not defined by one document), though the level of restrictions may vary between country.

Progressivism, a populist reform movement in the early twentieth century, espoused by Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and grounded in Protestant moralism, which sought to make government both more responsive to the plight of the people, for instance using Constitutional amendments to deal with social problems like alcoholism and using government force to quash monopolies, and at the same time more representative of the will of the electorate, for instance instituting more democracy like the direct election of Senators and ending the corruption of Machine politics in the cities.

Throughout the evidence session, Mr Copson emphasised that there was no constitutional reason to have automatic places for the Bishops, and anyone who argued for their retention was simply arguing to extend a religious privilege which has no place in a modern, liberal and diverse democracy.

«Nigeria is operating a constitutional democracy which places high premium on the sanctity of human lives and Aderiye's death must not be allowed to go the way of the late Chief Bola Ige, Chief Harry Marshall and other politically - motivated killings in Nigeria,» he said.

On the contrary, it is rather the precedent that high - level politicians are «above the law» and not subject to prosecution that is a threat to Constitutional democracy (regardless of which, if any, party is involved.)

By so doing, he is making himself a superintendent and overseer and an appellate court over decisions of a court of competent jurisdiction which under a constitutional democracy like ours and under the rule of law can never be possible.»

«You have a country with growing insecurity which is a betrayal of the country's democracy, and Nana Addo Dankwa's uncompromising partisan attitude and failure to bring to order, the disturbances and violent acts of vigilante groups like the Invincible Forces and Delta Forces, is a threat to constitutional rule if not properly managed,» he said.

Green Party leaders congratulated voters in Kent, Ohio, for passing Issue 43, which called for a constitutional amendment to end corporate personhood and abolish the legal definition of money as free speech, as well as establishment of an annual «Democracy Day» public hearing for residents to testify on the effect of big contributions from corporations and the wealthy on elections.

But she's especially looking forward to a publication forthcoming later this year in the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism titled «Telling Stories in the Supreme Court: Voices Briefs and the Role of Democracy in Constitutional Deliberation,» which will analyze a new, controversial form of appellate narrative argument: briefs that share stories of individuals not parties to the case at hand.

He saw democracy and Constitutional rule as the only way to preserve personal liberty, encourage prosperity and initiative and «afford the best means possible to elevate our race» — by which he meant, the human race.

PBS NewsHour talks to Justice Edwin Cameron about raising funds to conserve and maintain South Africa's Constitutional Court art collection, which was first assembled 20 years ago with the arrival of democracy and the founding of the court.

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.

In this respect, I believe it can only be commended that the Court attributes a meaningful role to the principles of democracy and the rule of law — principles which, after all, rank amongst the EU's founding constitutional values as expressed in Article 2 TEU.

It is far more insidious in that it attacks our very way of life and seeks to destroy the fundamental values to which we ascribe — values that form the essence of our constitutional democracy.»

By contrast, as the Secession Reference also recognized, democracy — whether direct democracy, which was at issue in that opinion, or representative democracy, and whether accountable or otherwise — must be confined by constitutional limitations.

Back in 2007, Justice Scalia came to Montreal, to debate his Canadian colleague, Justice Binnie, about the role of a judge in a democracy — which they both took to mean constitutional interpretation.

«Constitutional democracy means that institutions have different jobs to do and Parliament has its job to do, which is a very important job — to put before Parliament and vote on laws in accordance with the views of the government of the day and their representatives.

In Canada the creative tension between the rule of law and democracy — constitutional principles recognised by the Supreme Court of Canada [1]-- provides a crucible in which judicial review doctrine is formed.