Could a government of the far future repudiate the debts of the past?
The fact that so many Shias and Kurds trooped to vote (see article) proves that most Iraqis endorse the American-led and UN-endorsed plan for their future and repudiate the "resistance" that had presumed to murder in their name.
Of course, China could strive right now for a major role for the SDR, and repudiate that in the future when the yuan moves towards becoming a reserve currency.
They include: putting human rights first; giving equal priority to Palestinians and Israelis in their quest for a peaceful and secure future; and repudiating all forms of racism aimed at Jews, Arabs, Muslims or whomever.
Is it at all surprising that so many thousands, young, middle-aged and old, have turned out into the streets to repudiate this vision of their future and refuse to yield up the public areas they have occupied, despite pepper spray, tear gas and the violence unleashed on them?
The arrangement, which made an enemy of his nephew and lawful successor, the future Robert II, was repudiated by the Scottish Parliament.
Evans coined the phrase "Miltonic moment" to describe the point of crisis just before the action changes dramatically, looking at once backward to a past that is about to be transcended or repudiated, and forward to a future that immediately begins to unfold.
'Consequently, Communism repudiates parliamentarism as the form of the future; it renounces the same as a form of the class dictatorship of the proletariat; it repudiates the possibility of winning over the parliaments; its aim is to destroy parliamentarism.
In the words Jack Balkin, a Yale law professor: "It was stated in broad terms in order to prevent future majorities in Congress from repudiating the federal debt to gain political advantage, to seek political revenge or to try to disavow previous financial obligations because of changed policy priorities".
They would also bolster President Sirisena's efforts to have the country repudiate the past and recognize that its best future lies with his administration.
