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| | Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A political revolution is the forcible replacement of one set of rulers with another (as happened in France and Russia), while a social revolution is the fundamental change in the social structure of a society, such as the Protestant Reformation or the Renaissance. | | | However, blurring the line between these two categories, most political revolutions wish to carry out social revolutions, and they have basic philosophical or social underpinnings which drive them. | | | English Revolution – (1642-1653) – Commenced as a civil war between Parliament and King, culminating in the execution of Charles I and the establishment of a republican Protectorate. |
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| | Social justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Social Justice was also the name of a periodical published by Father Coughlin in the 1930s and early 1940s. | | | Similarly, Social Justice is fundamental to Catholic social teaching, and is one of the Four Pillars of the Green Party upheld by the worldwide green parties. | | | Social Justice is a concept that has fascinated philosophers ever since Plato rebuked the young Sophist, Thrasymachus, for asserting that justice was whatever the strongest decided it would be. |
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| | Democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Liberal democracy is, strictly speaking, a form of representative democracy where the political power of the government is moderated by a constitution which protects the rights and freedoms of individuals and minorities (also called constitutional liberalism). | | | An illiberal democracy is a political system where democratic elections exist, and the government is elected by a democratic majority, but is not restrained from encroaching on the liberty of individuals, or minorities. | | | Democracy is often implemented as a form of government in which policy is decided by the preference of the real majority, as opposed to a partial or relative majority of the demos or citizens, in a decision-making process, generally consensus decision-making, usually elections or referenda, open to all or most citizens. |
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| | Social Security (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The law was drafted by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's committee on economic security under Edwin E. Witte, and passed by Congress in 1935 as part of the New Deal, as the Social Security Act, ch. | | | The Social Security portion of this tax is 6.2% of the first $90,000 (in 2005) of an employee's income paid directly by the employer, and an additional 6.2% of the first $90,000 (in 2005) deducted from the employee's paycheck, yielding an effective rate of 12.4% of an employee's income. | | | As a result of these changes, the Social Security system began to generate a large surplus of funds, intended to cover the added retirement costs of the "boomers." Congress invested these surpluses into special series, non-marketable U.S. Government bonds which are held by the Social Security trust fund. |
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| | Social Credit Party of Alberta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the end Bowen chose not to take this extraordinary action, probably because Social Credit would likely have been re-elected in the ensuing general election. | | | The BC Social Credit Party formed the government for many years in neighbouring British Columbia, although this was effectively a coalition of right wing and centrist forces in the province that had no interest in social credit monetary policies. | | | Social Credit remained in the Legislature as the Official Opposition until the 1982 election, and then nearly disappeared from Alberta politics until the 1993 election. |
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http://www.hartselle.us/project/wikipedia/index.php/Social_Credit_Party_of_Alberta
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| | Social Revolution and the Equal Rights Amendment |
| | While not a new issue, the ERA became newly public at the end of a major period of social reform and at the beginning of the women's movement. | | | To them the ERA symbolized not equal legal rights, but the entire women's liberation movement which, along with the other social movements of the sixties, was, they felt, a severe threat to their basic values and way of life. | | | The initial focus of that backlash was on busing, but it quickly spread to encompass the new issues of feminism, abortion, and gay rights, all of which were interpreted as an attack on the family and the American way of life. |
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| | liberalism and social justice |
| | Political and social liberalism became associated with the Democrat Party in the post-depression era. | | | A twentieth-century social liberal might hope for both procedural and distributive justice, but he or she probably prefers distributive justice in the outcomes of social processes, even if the procedures are not deemed just; for a social liberal a "good society" involves neither income nor wealth being too unequally distributed. | | | The Labour Party flirted with socialism in the post-war era and thus became the proponent of pragmatic liberalism with respect to the role of government in the economy and society. |
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| | Social democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most social democrats support gay marriage, abortion and a liberal drug policy, while others are either non-committed or openly opposed to these policies, although feigned opposition may be employed for political expediency. | | | The modern liberal critique of social democracy is centred on its willingness to restrict the political and legal rights of the individual in favour of a perceived social good. | | | Modern social democracy emphasises a program of gradual legislative reform of the capitalist system in order to make it more equitable and humane, while the theoretical end goal of building a socialist society is either completely forgotten or redefined in a pro-capitalist way. |
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| | Weekly Worker 431 Thursday May 9 2002 |
| | Leaving aside the sloppiness around the victory of socialism in one county, Lenin wrests the whole weight of his case against the republican United States of Europe slogan on a rigid conceptual separation of the political and the economic. | | | The Social Democratic Party achieved remarkable electoral successes after Bismarcks anti-socialist laws were lifted. | | | This socialist empire-builder had even before the outbreak of war in August 1914 vigorously promoted the idea of a United States of Western Europe (he excluded Russia), headed, of course, by Germany. |
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| | Social justice - encyclopedia article about Social justice. |
| | Social Justice was also the name of a periodical published by Father Coughlin in the 1930s | | | The concept of Social justice has been politicised and it is sometimes stated proactively as being the promotion of equality through comprehensive government action. | | | Social justice is also used to refer to the overall fairness of a society in its divisions and distributions of rewards and burdens and, as such, the phrase has been adopted by political parties with a redistributive agenda. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/social+justice
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| | Progressivism |
| | Nearly every social and economic reform of the era was predicated on the progressive recognition that diverse cultural and occupational groups had conflicting interests, and that the responsibility for mitigating and adjusting those differences lay with the whole society, usually the government. | | | Progressivism was inspired by two bodies of belief and knowledge ‑ evangelical Protestantism and the natural and social sciences. | | | Progressivism brought major innovations to almost every facet of public and private life in the United States. |
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http://elmo.shore.ctc.edu/economics/progressivism.htm
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| | Spanish Revolution |
| | Despite the rapid advance of the workers' militias in Republican Spain, the social revolution which began in July failed to establish the absolute authority of councilist power. | | | In the subsequent year, the councils established by the working-class were to become a third force fighting against both the fascists and the attempts of the Republican government to re-establish its authority. | | | While the Republican government had been severely weakened, it did not, of course, abdicate in favour of the proletariat; after July, dual power existed in 'Anti-Fascist' Spain between the forces of a new revolutionary order and the remnants of the bourgeois Republic. |
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| | Renovating Marriage: The Requirements of Mutual Respect |
| | This stripped-down doctrine of marriage is the flag-ship of social liberalism and its proponents are determined to enshrine it as the authoritative law of the land. | | | Social liberals openly argue for a counter-majoritarian vision of liberal democracy that transfers deliberative power from parliament into the hands of the courts. | | | Social conservatives should not be treated as meaningful participants the democratic conversation, but shunned as political untouchables. |
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| | epoch.txt |
| | The major weapon of syndicalists is the general strike.[12] Anarchism is the doctrine urging the abolition of governmental restraints or of the government itself as the condition for full social and political liberty.[13] In the USNA, anarchism arose from the petty bourgeoisie in its struggle against the robber barons. | | | The content of the revolution is social reconstruction that guarantees the distribution of the necessaries of life. | | | The great social struggles of the 1930s had the objective task of reforming and restructuring the capitalist system to make it compatible with the decline of the family farm, the consolidation and monopolization of giant industry and the growth of industrial cities. |
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| | Democratic |
| | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (Algirdas Brazauskas. | | | Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania Democratic Labour Party of Lithuania (LDDP, in Lithuanian Lietuvos Demokratine Darb... | | | Social Democratic Party (Portugal) The Social Democratic Party (Portugal. |
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| | Encyclopedia of Marxism: S |
| | Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania |
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| | Safe Haven Social Justice |
| | Such "social justice" assigns to government and its agents the ultimate responsibility for the basic well-being of every individual and makes government officials superior judges of individual rights. | | | To them, too, justice is the firm desire to render to everyone that which is his due; but "his due" may be broadened to what "he ought to have" according to a wide range of value judgments; it is the due of "social justice." | | | Social Security and Medicare benefits are extended to the poor and affluent alike, which removes the stigma of transfer, but significantly raises the expense of redistribution and necessitates higher taxes on all. |
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| | Europe in Retropsect: The French Revolution - Phases of the Revolution |
| | It must be remembered that the French Revolution was the first major social revolution, of far greater dimensions and of deeper purpose than the American Revolution that had preceded it. | | | As the Revolution became more popular in support, it also became more intolerant; this dual situation occurring in the years 1793 and 1794, when the Jacobin faction, that most closely identified with the people of Paris and with democracy, was supreme. | | | It was the near bankruptcy of the state, largely caused by aid to the American revolutionaries, that served as the immediate provocation for aristocratic opposition in 1787, when an Assembly of Notables (consisting of aristocrats), called by the king and his finance minister, demanded political authority in return for tax reform. |
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| | The Social Issue Conservatives Wont Touch - David Oatney |
| | Conservatives have fought the culture war bravely and laudably on every issue of concern on the social front, from abortion to gay marriage, but leave the issue of divorce conspicuously off the table. | | | Social conservatives should be justly proud that they were able to mobilize even those who voted for John Kerry to vote to protect marriage, as exit polls showed in states such as Ohio on election night. | | | The conservative movement holds as the cornerstone of its social theory that the traditional family is the building block of society as a whole, and that without the family, the larger society will collapse. |
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| | Canadian social credit movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Although Parti Québécois is a social democratic party, it drew nationalist voters away from the from the Créditistes. | | | In Saskatchewan, Social Credit won seats in the Legislature in two elections - 2 seats in the 1938 election, and 3 in the 1956 election. | | | Social Credit was never able to form a provincial government in Quebec due to the near dominance of social conservative votes by the Union Nationale party from the 1930s into the 1960s. |
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| | Modern China: The 1911 Revolution |
| | Yüan, by the beginning of November, was convinced that the Manchu dynasty was at its close; his goal was to avoid civil war and become the first president of the new republic. | | | There was also a commercial/industrial component to the spirit of revolution, wealthy gentry that stood to lose investments based on government actions. | | | First, his response to the Szechwan rebellion was to overplay his hand; the deaths that resulted drove several other revolutionary attempts. |
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| | United States Democratic party - encyclopedia article about United States Democratic party. |
| | Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the world. | | | Democrats hope the 2005 elections are a foreshadowing of the November 7, 2006, elections for the House, Senate, and governorships. | | | Democrats in the Northern states joined the Republicans in opposing the expansion of slavery, and at the 1860 nominating convention the Party split and nominated two candidates (see U.S. presidential election, 1860). |
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| | Dreaming Online: Social Justice |
| | Social justice means being entitled to the same rights and services as all other citizens. | | | Social justice is what faces you in the morning. | | | Almost half had been taken as children from their families by State authorities, most were unemployed, and nearly all had had repeated contact with the justice system from an early age. |
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| | Articles - Social Credit Party of Canada |
| | When first formed in 1935, Social Credit took many voters from the Progressive Party of Canada and the United Farmers Movement. | | | The death of the Social Credit candidate in the riding of Frontenac, Quebec, resulted in the postponement of the election in that riding to March 24, 1980. | | | Of the 20 Social Credit MPs elected in Quebec in 1963, 13 joined Caouette's Ralliement, five of the remaining seven ran in the next election as independents, and two joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. |
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| | Center for Economic and Social Rights 4. Friday, December 8, 2000 |
| | Even though a majority of the Court of Appeal in Gosselin found there to have been an equality rights violation, ultimately relief to Louise Gosselin and the members of the group she represented was denied, because the justices recognized this case as raising social policy concerns. | | | Federal legislation that set standards for social assistance in all jurisdictions was repealed, cost-sharing arrangements between federal and provincial governments for social assistance and key social services were abandoned, and the federal government cut the amount of its financial transfers to the provinces for health, post-secondary education, and social assistance. | | | The commitments to equality for women that have been made over the last fifty years by many nations in domestic law and through international treaties must be understood to encompass the goal of redressing the social and economic inequality of women. |
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| | United States Democratic party - encyclopedia article about United States Democratic party. |
| | Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the world. | | | Democrats hope the 2005 elections are a foreshadowing of the November 7, 2006, elections for the House, Senate, and governorships. | | | Democrats in the Northern states joined the Republicans in opposing the expansion of slavery, and at the 1860 nominating convention the Party split and nominated two candidates (see U.S. presidential election, 1860). |
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| | The Constitution of Status-- Part I |
| | In a hierarchy with many status groups, there can be many different ways of differentiating the various groups and their respective lifestyles, and hence the system of social meanings (and the results of changes in social meanings) can be quite complex. | | | Groups lower in a status hierarchy may respond to their lower status by developing a compensatory sense of esteem in their own ways of living, condemning the lifestyles of higher status groups as immoral or inauthentic, or attempting to turn their lower status into a point of pride through irony. | | | In other words, a status hierarchy is sustained by a system of social meanings in which one group receives relatively positive associations and another correspondingly negative associations. |
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| | "Uzbekistan on the threshold of the twenty-first century" |
| | In the history of every state, the transition to a new social polity has, unfortunately, always had in its background such repugnant phenomena as corruption and criminality. | | | It is necessary to take into account the social and political situation, inequality and the necessity for peoples to live together, sharing their desires and aspirations, which should be expressed through an appropriate ethnopolicy of the state and through the formation of public opinion. | | | It was precisely state socialism with its typically rigid planned economy, state-owned property and centralized distribution of benefits that created fertile soil for the existence and full-scale expansion of regionalism and clan influence. |
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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -PROGRESSIVISM |
| | Although the term applied most obviously to the short-lived Progressive party of former president Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 elections, progressivism as a general stance clearly applied to many members of the Republican, Democratic, Socialist, and Prohibition parties as well. | | | These pioneers of social work in Chicago soon became role models for young men and women in other cities, attracting such figures as John Dewey and George Herbert Mead to study what they were doing and to work their insights into a pragmatic philosophy that would solve the problems of democracy. | | | Social scientists have stressed the way modernization affected the class structure and accelerated the shift from rural to urban living patterns. |
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| | Roman Social Class and Public Display |
| | This female participation in social status began to crystallize and formalize under Augustus, who explicitly included the daughters, granddaughters, and great-granddaughters of senators in his law prohibiting members of the senatorial class from contracting legal marriages with freedpeople. | | | However, in the case of Latins, foreigners, and slaves, children took the social status of their mother, even if their father was a freeborn Roman citizen. | | | Since the lower classes were not defined by male activities, there was no problem with including women; female and male children were automatically members of the social class of their parents (except for freedpeople, since only one generation could be “freed”). |
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