Hence, one can no longer legislate at will without first building the support of the people for the social-moral values that new laws seek to promote.
At issue is nothing less than finding the best ways of relating changes in social-moral values and the law - ways that would bridge a deepening gap between the people and the institutions of the government.
Instead, they focus on budgeting for policy outcomes that they believe will most likely reflect social and moral values like equality of opportunity, and social and economic justice.
But oops, he forgot to instill any social or moral values in the boy.
But the American majority's social and moral values differ enormously from those which guide most Europeans.
Inman is the president of Amerival, a company which invests in businesses and projects with an eye on social and moral values.
Hunt relates how a newly prosperous middle class, eager to legitimatize its economic power and distance itself from accusations of philistinism, began "manufacturing a new cultural identity," in which architecture and government reflected social and moral values.
But those decisions may be offset elsewhere, as consumers seem to keep a kind of mental balance of altruism Consumer choices not only reflect price and quality preferences but also social and moral values as witnessed in the remarkable growth of the global market for organic and environmentally friendly products.
Unfortunately, argues Mona Zulficar, a lawyer and an expert on the constitution, while it enshrines most basic rights, it also says they must be balanced by vague religious, social and moral values, some of which will be defined by clerical authorities.
Novelists represent social and moral values that are an important part of what make us human, suggests Sutherland.
