The equality representative in the Exeter University faculty I used to work for asked me, in public, whether that made me "the wife" in the relationship.
"For more than half a century, Bill Taylor's voice was synonymous with equality," Representative George Miller, the California Democrat who is chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, said in a statement.
The Treaty of Lisbon expresses the three fundamental principles of democratic equality, representative democracy and participatory democracy.
Anna Bradshaw, OUSU's vice-president for women, said they are "desperately needed", while Oscar Barber, the equalities representative at Queen's College, called them "a great step forward for gender equality within college life".
It includes, he says, "the Christian religion, Protestant values and moralism, a work ethic, the English language, British traditions of law, justice, and the limits of government power, and a legacy of European art, literature, philosophy, and music," plus "the American Creed with its principles of liberty, equality, individualism, representative government, and private property".
The familiar backstops of political discussion – notions such as individual freedom, social equality, national sovereignty, representative democracy or human rights – are not going to help us face the fact that if we carry on as we are, the entire planet may soon become uninhabitable.
That is a perverse corruption of the basic equality of a representative system".
Suad Abu-Dayyeh, regional representative for Equality Now, an international group that campaigned on the case, said: "It's a very unjust verdict from the judge.
Suad Abu-Dayyeh, Equality Now's regional representative, said: "It's very much rooted in Egypt, but in other Arab countries – in Jordan, in Palestine, in Syria – we don't have it".
We will conclude by looking at how Mill applies these principles to issues of political and sexual equality in Considerations on Representative Government (1859, cited as CRG), Principles of Political Economy (1848, cited as PPE), and The Subjection of Women (1869, cited as SW).
Freedom of expression represents one of four critical pillars of any democratic form of government, which also includes the election of a representative government, equality before the law, and strict observance of human rights.
