On the one hand, guns have always played a role in America's Civil Rights struggle even a pacifist like Martin Luther King Jr. kept guns around, because he understood that standing up to institutionalized oppression is a life-threatening proposition.
Yet after making their choices for president and other offices, they all will face 17 complicated, complex and in some cases life-changing propositions on the Nov. 8 ballot.
The truth of the proposition "life has meaning" is more evident and secure than any proposition about what must be true if life is to have meaning.
What a different proposition life is to the man who looks out of his window and beholds a seascape and not a landscape.
He gave his life to the proposition that there was nothing an American couldn't accomplish if he marshaled his energy and talents.
Still, Obama stands by the universality of the American proposition: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness under a constitutional government of limited powers.
The charismatic Sef hovers throughout in the background, materializing only through occasional e-mails and phone calls, which allows Sullivan to bring to life the tricky proposition of supporting the troops while thinking the war itself is a huge mistake, as most people around Cassie do.
On issue after issue of concern to traditional-values voters -- the sanctity of life, California's Proposition 22 defending marriage against homosexual redefinition, a pro-family tax code, judges who respect the Constitution, a strong national defense -- Senator McCain has stood firm.
For hares, fashion is a life or death proposition.
"Obama not only was elected in 2008 but has framed his entire professional life around the proposition that reasonable people can disagree but they should do so in a reasonable way," said Bennett.
It's a vessel for the gospel that's flexible enough to accommodate the moving of the Spirit, because life, unlike fixed proposition, can move and expand to adjust to the changing circumstances and needs of real people.
