The war now taking shape may even be related to the principles that gave birth to postmodernism.
The Federal appeals court ruling yesterday in the Elian Gonzalez case reaffirmed legal principles that give Federal agencies -- and particularly immigration officials -- wide authority.
Like Lincoln or Martin Luther King Jr., Obama positioned himself as a conservative revolutionary -- attempting to re-create our country by reasserting the traditional moral principles that gave it birth.
Above them, embossed in stone, a quote from President Woodrow Wilson: "America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured".
But today Mr. Putin said those moves will fail unless both Moscow and the provinces embrace democratic principles that give businesses freedom from government interference and guarantee equal application of law.
Even if we can't give epistemic reasons for epistemic first principles, we can give what philosophers sometimes call practical reasons for employing the methods of science, and therefore for committing to the principles that give them more weight than others.
The new-markets tax credit, created in 2000, was born of the same principles that gave rise to the housing credit: first, that the private sector needs incentives to invest in worthy projects that would otherwise be considered too risky; and second, that those incentives lead to greater accountability and superior project performance when compared with federal grant programs.
The size is still fairly portable, however, and the same design principles that give the Minx Air 200 such room-filling sound are at work here, too.
Fourth, since in these explanations the mechanism, through which institutional practice determines rights and obligations, follows from some moral principles that give the practice that very role, the rights and obligations so determined have genuine moral force.
These systems, covering a wide range of entrenched and influential metaphysical and theological views, purport to have discovered principles that give us a deeper and more certain knowledge of ultimate reality.
