Because people publicly uphold the norms, it appears as though everyone endorses them.
Fifty years ago, Seymour Slive's "Rembrandt and His Critics" analyzed the strong responses to Rembrandt in the name of upholding the norms of classical decorum.
Creative people are viewed as risky and unpredictable, while leaders are expected to reduce uncertainty and uphold the norms of the group.
And for most American Jews (though not for all Jews), the Zionist project has always envisioned a liberal, democratic state upholding the norms of citizenship and human rights that Theodore Herzl felt had been violated by European anti-semitism.
In his report One Humanity, Shared Responsibility and his agenda for humanity, the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon calls for global leadership to prevent and end conflicts, and on global leaders to uphold the norms that safeguard humanity.
We need to do our best to preserve civility in the public sphere, to uphold the norms of democratic discourse, even when or especially when they are under assault from extremists.
Asked whether the chaos that it had unleashed made him regret supporting the war as a minister in Blair's government, Miliband said: "I regret it because I made a decision on the basis of upholding the norms in respect to weapons of mass destruction, and there were none".
Asked whether the chaos that it had unleashed made him regret supporting the war as a minister in Blair's government, Miliband said: "I regret it because I made a decision on the basis of upholding the norms of respect to weapons of mass destruction, and there were none".
If the president is one of the people refusing to uphold the norms of civil discourse, one could argue, those norms are already dead, buried, and decaying into carbon.
It is one of the few Sydney Anglican churches that has upheld the norms of mainstream Anglican tradition, including the use of the stole by clergy during services, especially during sacraments such as baptisms and marriages; the Book of Common Prayer and sacred church music, including the singing of hymns from a hymnal.
As important, he said, is upholding the norm against the use of chemical weapons, which even the Russians have supported, endorsing Mr. Obama's "red line" last year.
