"Economy, Society, and Democracy," grant from the Agency for International Development, September 14 , 1990 - March 13 , 1993Principal Investigator).
Even though it is far from perfect, it is still the best government in history for We The People.. History has proven far too many times that we can never take Democracy for granted, it is always our responsibility to protect American Democracy from being overthrown.
Mr. Laarayedh said Tunisians cannot yet take their nascent democracy for granted.
Perhaps so, though some might say that even Chileans cannot take democracy for granted.
By contrast we in Britain tend to take the robustness of our democracy for granted.
A national debate could well stir deeper sentiments and reflections, especially among young people, reminding them never to take their peace and their democracy for granted, rallying them to fight for the future shape of their nation.
Because it was only the "propertied classes" to whom the liberties of democracy were granted, it was assumed that landless citizens would thus bear the responsibility of defending the nation.
As president from 1982 to 1983, General Bignone protected the military as Argentina returned to democracy; he granted amnesty to human rights violators and ordered the destruction of documents related to torture and the disappearances of political opponents before he agreed to transfer power to a democratically elected president, Raúl Alfonsín.
Mr. Obama wants to talk with the young people onstage at the elite school about civic engagement, community organizing and the importance of not withdrawing from the challenges facing society … Advisers said Mr. Obama's conversation on Monday is likely to echo many of the same themes he talked about in [his] farewell address, including a plea that people not take democracy for granted.
The son of reform-minded, working-class immigrants from Scotland, Meiklejohn rejected the spiritually agnostic and politically instrumentalist philosophies of his Progressive-Era contemporaries, many of whom, he argued, simply took democracy for granted.
