The Trial of Wycliffe, AD 1377, for instance, suggests a profound sympathy with proto-Protestant Wycliffe's project of democratising ancient mysteries.
Joey Davison, 20, a second-year student, said: "The protest is about opposing the kind of corporatisation we see in the US model of education, and about democratising the university.
This requires removing the influence of corporations entirely through reforms in the areas of party funding and lobbying, closing the revolving door between government and corporations, ending the culture of corporate secondment, introducing proportional representation, democratising the City of London Corporation and the removal of the Remembrancer.
Oddly, given the EU's huge impact in democratising aspirant members, the union has few powers over the political order of countries once they join short of the "nuclear option" of suspending voting rights.As a form of peer pressure, the commission is planning to draw up a "scoreboard" of members' justice systems.
But for all the scorn now heaped on Mr Bush's idea of democratising the Arab world, most other Iraqis seem eager to vote.
The country's mining industry has always been white-run; for a long time it was also very profitable, because apartheid laws made it easy to keep black wages low.Khanyo Gqulu, spokesman for the minerals and energy ministry, says the bill is about "democratising" the industry.
ON FEBRUARY 26th, George Bush addressed the annual dinner of the American Enterprise Institute, a neo-conservative think tank, on the subject of democratising the Middle East.
The best constitutions, as Thomas Jefferson showed, are those which are most sceptical about the virtue of the powerful.Peter Hitchens London* SIR – The British government's policy on democratising the House of Lords would set the Commons and the upper house on a collision course.
Protagonists of the micro version see themselves as democratising economic and political power.
From this, incidentally, Mr Winer extrapolates that blogging has "the potential for revolution," democratising and liberating the world.
