It is a core democratic requirement.
The Fed has a legal and democratic requirement to set monetary policy to be appropriate for the U.S. economy.
Colbert originally planned to run for both the Republican and Democratic nominations, but couldn't bring himself to write the $35,000 application fee to the Republican party and opted instead for the $2,500 Democratic requirement.
He said the proposals were one sided since there were no parallel proposals to insert more democratic requirements on company donations to parties.
Rep. Waters' letter urges that the US not provide funding for elections that do not meet these minimum, basic democratic requirements.
Remember that, as a member of the Andean Pact, Peru is bound to the European Union by a democracy clause and the European Community, or more specifically the Community institutions, has a certain responsibility by virtue of that democracy clause to call for the electoral process in Peru to be adapted, as far as possible, to certain essential democratic requirements.
I sat with Maya Harris, one of Clinton's senior policy advisors, and asked her if she was mostly thinking about the Senate and whether or not it would become Democratic, a requirement for much of her policy agenda.
A permissible conception of the good, for the purposes of the principle, is a conception of a good that is consistent with the requirements of justice for a modern democratic society, where the requirements of justice are not themselves founded on or tied to any disputed conception of the good.
Democracies have hesitated about organizing themselves for such an idealistic purpose, even though some, such as the European Union, the Commonwealth and now NATO, make democratic practice a fundamental requirement of membership.
Maybe you were under the impression that kings didn't need to be voted for, being, as they are, elected by divine right which precludes the requirement for democratic approval?
