Sentence examples for principles of citizens from inspiring English sources
The basic reason for this is that, unlike other countries – notably the United States – we do not have a written constitution whose broad principles of citizens' rights and responsibilities trump the will of the elected assembly.
The debate is indicative of the deep ambivalence about social customs among even a small minority of France's Muslim citizens, and of the signal fear that France's principles of citizens' rights, equality and secularism are being undermined.
The debate is indicative of the deep ambivalence about social customs among even a small minority of French Muslims, and of the signal fear that France's principles of citizens' rights, equality and secularism are being undermined.
This construction devaluates the democratic principles of citizens' self-rule.
The right to vote forms the foundation of representative democracy, that is, democracy based on the principle of citizens electing a group of people to represent their interests.
As the republican principle of citizens' equality under the law faded, the symbolic and social privileges of the upper classes led to an informal division of Roman society into those who had acquired greater honours (honestiores) and those who were humbler folk (humiliores).
Rawls argues that the fairness of the basic structure of society may be assessed by asking what principles representatives of citizens (parties) would choose to determine the distribution of primary goods in society if they were behind a "veil of ignorance" (Rawls 1971, 12).
The first level "is achieved when society is effectively regulated by public principles of justice: citizens accept and know that others likewise accept those principles, and this in turn is publicly recognized" (Rawls 2005, 66).
I mean, come on, what could be more in line with the principles of arming citizens to fend off the government, protecting life, liberty and property and the freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures than the idea of state secrets?
"Our current national society is much fashioned on the principle of passive citizens lending their authority to the elected and specialized institutions of federal and provincial and municipal governments.
(Community Representative, Interview) While few people would argue against the principle of involving citizens in health system design and evaluation, in practice, the effectiveness of community participation has been questioned [ 1- 4].
