The list includes gradual nuclear disarmament, the formation of a vaguely defined "democratic league" and the universal prosecution of crimes against humanity.
The governments of well over half the world's countries, including some whose democratic performance leaves something to be desired, have now committed themselves to a set of principles defining democratic society.
The new divides exploited by populists — between urban and rural voters, and visions of an open vs. closed society — will define democratic politics for years to come.
American citizens, including students, should start defining democratic values by reaffirming a commitment to two of the nation's most subversive documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the United States Constitution.
It was his status in that world that led Mr. and Mrs. Edwards to Mr. Trippi, as part of their effort to figure out how to channel the attitude of Democrats who are angry at compromise, eager to take on powerful institutions in Washington, fiercely antiwar and generally very supportive of the untrammeled populism that is coming to define Democratic politics.
They noted it will be different from the Republicans' "Contract with America" in that it will not lay out specific legislative and policy proposals, but instead broadly define Democratic themes and present explanations for why voters should bump the minority into the majority.House Republicans, led by then-Rep.
Kailyn: How would you define democratic socialism?
I ask the ejected protestor, Neal Fletcher, why things escalated, and Neal tells me it's because the Trump supporters couldn't define "Democratic socialist".
WASHINGTON — The emergence of the escalating federal debt and government spending as a defining political issue is complicating Democratic efforts this week to push through a major package of tax breaks and unemployment aid over the reluctance of Democrats wary of being painted as budget busters.
A campaign is the defining democratic exercise for a country founded on the consent of the governed.
Finally, it reveals that the opposition advocates an understanding of Islam that is defined on democratic principles.
