Inez always asked: "Who is not at the table?" She believed that challenging the status quo was vital to a healthy democratic practice.
To the extent that a challenged democratic practice serves multiple and legitimate democratic ends, the federal courts should respect the judgment of democratic actors.
It may not have had quite the zing of Tony Benn's quotation from Speaker William Lenthall - with "neither eyes to see, ears to hear, nor voice to speak save as this House direct me" - but as a defence of democratic practice before an overweening executive, it will suffice.
In the late nineteen-seventies, tax revolts spread throughout the nation and popularized a conception of the tax as an insult to democratic practice rather than an embodiment of it.
Although the authors approach the topic of deliberation from different perspectives, they all aim to provide a theoretical basis for a more robust democratic practice.
Within the constraints of military discipline, the army became a model of democratic practice.
A law student in Alexandria, he had strayed by penning bitter critiques of Egypt's main centre of Islamic learning, al-Azhar university, and of Mr Mubarak, and posting them on his personal blog.Bahrain, another country that hides authoritarian rule behind a veneer of democratic practice, has taken to summoning bloggers for questioning, and tries to make them register with the police.
But they remain wary of the shadow-play that is Algerian politics.In this section The old man won't go away The ebb and flow of horror If only the bombs would go away… No room for a new inn Justice, after all, is being done Insure my cows ReprintsThis election campaign, for instance, has carried a veneer of democratic practice, with six varied candidates bidding for the top prize.
Technology assessment (TA) is an analytic and democratic practice that aims to contribute to the timely formation of public and political opinion on societal aspects of science and technology.
