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| | On Liberty |
 | | What is lacking in Georgia is not knowledge of democracy and liberty, but the practice of democracy and liberty by the ruling political elites. | | | Fair elections are still a democratic ideal, and not the foundations of democracy in Georgia. | | | The main emphasis of this work was civil and political rights and freedoms, and administrative rights received relatively little attention. |
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| | Brennan Center Democracy Program - Fair Courts |
| | We focus on improving judicial selection processes (including elections), increasing diversity on the bench, preserving judicial independence and accountability, and keeping courts in balance with other governmental branches. | | | The Judicial Independence Bibliography, a searchable database with regularly updated summaries of law review and political science articles | | | Advice, Consent, and Advertising: Television Advertising on Nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court |
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| | She especially argues that the President of the Executive Board should be approved by both the Parliament and the Council. | | | Members of the board will be appointed by the common accord of the Member States on a recommendation from the European Council after it has consulted both the European Parliament and the Governing Council.(Maastricht treaty, Protocol on the Statute of the Article 11.2). | | | Another monitoring mechanism is the possibility that the President of the Council and a member of the Commission may participate in the meetings of the Governing Council and the General Council of the ECB. |
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| | Media Independence and Democracy on the Eve of EU Enlargement - Lessons Learned? |
| | Although it is hard to quantify the direct impact of media on political behaviour and decision-making processes, it is clear that media fills important gaps in social and political communication, serving as a powerful factor of consolidation of democracy." | | | External support can compromise the independence of the media. | | | Monitoring human rights and the rule of law in Europe |
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| | [Imc-uk] Turkey: DHKC Statement 258 on the European Union debate |
| | This democracy they talk of would like to secure the rule of monopoly capital and prevent the people from marching along the road to power. | | | This alternative has no room for exploitation by the monopolies and the fascist methods of their collaborators. | | | The much-praised European democracy is a democracy for the monopolies. |
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| | Icon of democracy 51st anniversary of Mossadegh |
| | While the epitome of Mossadegh's political career was his 27 months (May 1951- August 1953) of service as Iran's democratically elected prime minister, it is his lifelong struggle for independence and democracy that bestows a venerable and unique historical stature upon him. | | | Born into a princely family on May 20, 1882, Mossadegh held his first governmental post as the Chief of Financial Affairs of Khorrasan province at the age of fifteen. | | | Forty-eight years after his downfall and thirty four years after his death, Mossadegh's legacy of the right to national sovereignty and democracy is increasing and widening in Iran's public discourse and social consciousness. |
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| | >>> AsiaNews.it <<< Hong Kong hopes for democracy, not for independence |
| | She insists that the Chief Executive should be elected only when all parties are willing to back him and are in Beijing’s confidence. | | | Hong Kong (AsiaNews/SCMP) — According to Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, president of the Hong Kong’s Legislative Council (Legco) and one of the most prominent pro-Beijing leaders, the Special Administrative Region must wait 8 years before its Chief Executive is directly elected by the people and 16 before all LegCo members are returned by universal suffrage. | | | The filmmaker said that his discussions were open and warm. |
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| | Greens For Nader: Call for the formation of a Green committee for Democracy and Independence |
| | To maintain our party's unity we must ensure that all viewpoints are respected, all members can participate fully in the institutions of the party, and all decisions truly reflect the will of the Green Party membership. | | | Posted by gfn at November 3, 2004 08:42 AM | | | The Green Party must declare as policy that it does not endorse, support or urge votes for any partisan candidate of either the Democratic or Republican Party. |
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| | California Proposes Democracy and Independence |
| | 3) That, as an independent third political party, it is not only our right, but our “duty” to | | | This declaration does not in anyway restrict the Green Party, or its members, from working | | | independence from the Democratic and Republican parties by adopting a national policy |
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| | Dr. Kazemzadeh-The Day Democracy Died: |
| | On this day, we renew our solemn oath to continue this struggle until we establish our century-long demands of independence, democracy, liberty, rule of law, human rights, modernity, progress, and social justice. | | | Sharif-Emami, who also had spent some time in jail for his pro-Nazi activities in the 1940s, assumed several positions after 1953 coup, including Secretary General of the Oil Industry, President of the Senate, and Prime Minister (twice).[12] | | | Kermit Roosevelt, the CIA chief of operations in Tehran, gave $10,000 to Ayatollah Kashani on August 18, a day before the coup. |
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| | Global Beat:A Vote for Independence and Democracy: Taiwan's Election Complicate US-Asian Politics |
| | In the city of Tainan, 77 percent of the voters in a poll said they did not want Taiwan to be governed by mainland China. | | | Global Beat:A Vote for Independence and Democracy: Taiwan's Election Complicate US-Asian Politics | | | Altogether, the elections rendered a vote of confidence in President Lee Teng-hui's policy of maintaining Taiwan's independence in all but name and seeking greater international recognition, including membership in international organizations, even as it shuns a formal declaration of independence. |
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| | Estonia, Latvia vote for independence |
| | Three members of the “Shield” independent military union were arrested in Vilnius on February 12 after they announced that, according to their investigations, the central committee of the Communist Party of Lithuania had requested army and | | | In both republics, over 64% voted yes to questions that, as in Lithuania on February 9, linked independence with democracy. | | | Gorbachev has said it was illegal for the “National Salvation Committees” in Lithuania and Latvia to call on troops for assistance, but no-one has been brought to justice for the shootings, and some public buildings are still occupied. |
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| | Gusmao Questions Politicians' Readiness for Democracy, Independence |
| | Referring to mounting rumors of corruption within the National Council of Timorese Resistance (CNRT) and its "loss of credibility," Gusmao said the umbrella organization's Aug. 21-30 congress would serve "to diminish the stain." | | | Subject: Lusa: Gusmao Questions Politicians' Readiness for Democracy, Independence | | | The congress of the CNRT, which is headed by Gusmao, is expected to open the way for implementing a multiparty political system, after which the umbrella group, which led the common fight against Indonesian occupation, plans to dissolve. |
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| | SSRN-Central Bank Independence, Democracy, and Dollarization by Allan Drazen |
| | We argue that strongly independent monetary policy is not inconsistent with democratic control of policymaking, once one realizes that a key feature of democratic policymaking is the decision to remove some decisions from "day-to-day" political pressures. | | | This is the essence of "constitutionalism," central to the functioning of democracy, by which certain decisions are made difficult to reverse. | | | Keywords: Central bank independence, constitutional democracy, democratic control |
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| | Exuma Bahamas 1900's, Twentieth Century, Independence, Democracy, Freedom |
| | This transition from colonial status to independence was achieved peacefully and smoothly, much to the credit of its citizens, the Bahamas is now a democracy in its own right with free elections and a free press and with Exuma playing a significant role as one of tile major Family Islands. | | | Finally, in Exuma's fifth major milestone the Bahamas became an independent nation in 1973, casting off its last colonial links with Great Britain. | | | Exuma Bahamas 1900's, Twentieth Century, Independence, Democracy, Freedom |
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| | U.S. Should Support Georgian Democracy and Independence |
| | Beyond that, it should renew efforts to ensure Georgia that it can open a new page in its history by strengthening democracy, sovereignty, territorial integrity, rule of law, and economic reforms. | | | What the United States Should Do support of Georgian independence is bipartisan. | | | The United States should acknowledge the historic role Eduard Shevardnadze played in the dissolution of the Soviet Union, while supporting the new Georgian democratic leadership. |
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| | Independence Day |
| | In the United States, Independence Day is a holiday celebrating the adoption of our Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. | | | On July 4, 1776, we claimed our independence from England in the Declaration of Independence and democracy was born. | | | The actual signing of the Declaration of Independence was completed in August 1776. |
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| | sovereignty -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The concept of sovereignty, one of the most controversial ideas in political science and international law, is closely related to the difficult concepts of state and government, of independence and democracy. | | | This means that those who hold public office are accountable to the people. | | | And there are usually many officials—members of bureaucracies and many judges—who are not easily held accountable for their... |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9068942
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| | PEACE INDEPENDENCE DEMOCRACY UNITY PROSPERITY |
| | The socio-economic infrastructure has been continuously expanded, the state is governed by the rule of law, freedom and democracy are respected and constantly promoted. | | | In this perspective, we look forward to seeing the establishment of an independent Palestinian State and the respect for an existence of all States in this region, thus ensuring durable peace and cooperation between the nations, in particular between the Arab States and Israel. | | | The two parties should seize this opportunity to write a new page of history based on peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation among the peoples in the region. |
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| | 'Just World News' by Helena Cobban: Transition from occupation to independence and democracy: a UN role? |
| | But most of those elections around the world have been ones where the UN-sponsored elections were held as part of a peacebuilding transition from civil war to national reconciliation. | | | Only in a few cases was the political context one of transition from rule by a foreign military force to a democratic form of national independence. | | | In East Timor, Indonesia had been in illegitimate foreign occupation ever since Henry Kissinger gave President Suharto the green light to send his forces into the country in 1975. |
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| | UK Independence Party |
| | The UK Independence Party, the British delegation of the | | | Roger Knapman MEP, Leader of UKIP, said "This campaign offers an opportunity for the British people to have a decisive say in the running of their country. | | | The UK Independence Party today launched a campaign that calls for a referendum on |
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| | Charter vote resonates with Valley Iraqis |
| | A final result isn't expected for several days, but early projections showed the constitution had passed, despite heavy turnout by Sunnis opposed to the charter. | | | The charter is intended to lead Iraq toward independence and pave the way for a new round of elections on Dec. 15 for a permanent government. | | | Darmo, who also is spokesman for the Assyrian Democratic Movement in Arizona, said that for the most part Assyrians support the new constitution but believe it failed to fully represent the political interests of Iraq's Assyrian Christian minority. |
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| | United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal » Blog Archive » Indian Independence & Nepali democracy |
| | You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. | | | Nepali speakers pitching for a new constitution and a new democracy included NC-D leader Bimalendra Nidhi and Pradip Giri, CPN-UML leader Keshav Lal Shrestha, and Madhesi Janadhikar Manch leader Upendra Yadav. | | | The leaders sharing their thoughts on Nepalâs past and present struggle for democracy ranged from veteran socialist leader Surendra Mohan to Nationalist Congress leader S. Tripathi, and Janata Dal United Leader Sarad Yadav to former foreign secretary Ramesh Bhandari. |
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| | Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP) Main Page |
| | Committee for an Independent Voice - CA Georgia Independent Voters - GA Independent Movement - GA Committee for an Independent Voice - KY Coalition of Independent Voters - MA Committee for an Independent Voice - NH Committee for an Independent New Jersey | | | Committee for an Independent Voice - OR Independent Texans | | | Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP) Main Page |
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| | NEW-DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT |
| | New-democratic government, the constitutional government of New Democracy. | | | As far as the constitutional governments the world has so far known are concerned, whether in Britain, France, the United States or the Soviet Union, a body of basic laws, that is, a constitution, has generally been promulgated after a successful revolution to give recognition to the actual establishment of democracy. | | | As for presidents, there have been a number of them. |
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| | Independence, Freedom, Democracy & the Presidency |
| | This year we look back on 229 solid years of independence, and, despite some ominous symptoms, still exercise our basic freedom in vigorous arguments about freedom — what it is comprised of, which freedoms may be abridged, by whom and for what reasons. | | | This week, in anticipation of Independence Day, our President gave a speech about Iraq (referring five times to 9/11 and liberally sprinkled with the words "terror" and "terrorists") in which he asserted "There is only one course of action against them: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home. | | | We didn’t fight the War for Independence for security. |
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| | The Zimbabwe Independent |
| | THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) has castigated Zimbabwe’s oppressive media laws, describing them as inimical to Independence and democracy. | | | Misa’s legal adviser Wilbert Mandinde together with Zimbabwe Union of Journalists President Matthew Takaona were in Banjul, Gambia, this week to present the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe case on the closure of its two publications to the African Commission for Human and Peoples’ Rights. | | | “It sounds discordant to be celebrating independence and democracy in an environment in which media which served as alternative sources of information were closed in terms of a law which has been condemned locally, regionally and internationally as an impediment,” Mandinde said. |
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| | Independence would mean democracy, prosperity : The Morning Call Online |
| | As a result of a unique 400-year-old historical experience, Puerto Rico was already a nation when the United States invaded and took over in 1898. | | | Secretary for North American Relations, Puerto Rican Independence Party | | | Independence would mean democracy, prosperity : The Morning Call Online |
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| | Independence and Democracy for Cyprus! - International EU - Indymedia Ireland |
| | The solution is an independent, united, democratic Cyprus! | | | The revolutionary movement in Turkey supports the struggle of the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot people for an independent, united and democratic Cyprus and will also support this in the future. | | | Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Independent Media Centre Ireland. |
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| | Independence Day |
| | But the War of Independence dragged on until 1783. | | | This is typically followed by a FIREWORKS display at dusk. | | | Independence Day was first celebrated on July 4th, 1776, because that |
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| | Carolina Morning News on the Web Opinion - Flag day: be prepared to feel proud 06/14/00 |
| | Our flag was officially adopted on June 14, 1777, when the Continental Congress resolved that "the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white, that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." | | | Today, our American flag is 223 years old. | | | On Independence Day we will celebrate the birth of the nation which is symbolized by this flag, and on Flag Day we will render honor to our American flag, the symbol of freedom. |
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| | Democracy Cell Project - Forums > The Declaration of Independence |
| | He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: | | | He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our legislatures. | | | Jan 4 2005, 03:29 PM The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies |
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| | Irish Independence Democracy and Neutrality |
| | A Europe of Independent, Democratic States, Legal Equals with no military dimension whatsoever. | | | The results of EU referendums prior to Nice show that an increasing number of the Irish people were voting No. The number voting in successive referendums against the steady transformation of a Common Market of the 1970's into a superstate has continuously increased and 38% of the Irish people voted against the Amsterdam Treaty. | | | The Peace and Neutrality Alliance was established to advocate an independent Irish foreign policy, maintain Irish neutrality and promote a transformed United Nations as the organisation through which Ireland should pursue its security concerns. |
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| | Friends for American Independence and Democracy |
| | It is time for all progressive individuals as well as activists involved in local and national peace movements to independently act and defend our individual freedoms. | | | Please ask Congress to put an end to punishing Americans Citizens for the total incompetence of Bush’s secret bureaucratic shadow administration. | | | The ACLU Special Report on Independence Day said: ".... |
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| | Rumsfeld pushes for permanent US bases in Afghanistan |
| | Having laid down the law to the newly-installed Iraqi president and prime minister on Monday, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Afghanistan on Wednesday to do the same to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. | | | In both cases, Rumsfeld’s diktats make a mockery of the Bush administration’s claims to be bringing peace, independence and democracy to the region. | | | Having hailed the fall of the dictator Hussein as a great triumph of democracy, Washington is now rebuilding his hated security apparatus to carry out the same dirty work—repressing a hostile population. |
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| | Polish Freedom Movement |
| | The first series of the collection contains political correspondence between the Polish Freedom Movement "Independence and Democracy" in New York and the Central Committee of the Movement in London (Great Britain), General Assembly of Captive European Nations. |
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| | Anti-Imperialists March in Philippine 'Independence' Day Parade |
| | NEW YORK, NY, 4 June 2000--An energetic group of anti-imperialists and progressives marched in the Philippine 'Independence' Day parade today. | | | The Philippine Forum-led contingent came dressed as Katipuneros, members of the revolutionary Katipunan organization secretly founded by Andres Bonifacio in 1892 to wage a war of national liberation from Spain. | | | Looking forward, Roy continued, "We encourage our solidarity friends to take up the issue of the Philippines as one of their issues and to work with us to learn more about the situation in the Philippines. |
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| | Zinaida Bandarenka: «We will obtain independence and democracy» :: Charter'97 :: News :: 14/07/2004 |
| | This will be our step to consolidation that we need so much today. | | | We will obtain independence, democracy and better life for us and for our country as soon as we unite,” -- said Zinaida Bandarenka in interview to Charter press-center. | | | Zinaida Bandarenka: «We will obtain independence and democracy» :: Charter'97 :: News :: 14/07/2004 |
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| | THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE CURRENT PERIOD ARE CONDITIONED BY the lack of preparedness of democrats to govern the country DO YOU AGREE WITH THE STATEMENTS ABOVE? | | | TO WHAT EXTENT ARE YOU SATISFIED state of democracy in Ukraine | | | Democracy in our country will never become strong? |
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| | Ind Dem Group/UKIP European Referendum petition - home |
| | We are a multinational group of MEPs in the European Parliament who oppose the creation of a United States of Europe. | | | Nigel Farage, co-chairman of the Independence and Democracy Group and a UK Independence Party MEP says | | | We conducted an independent survey with YOUGOV and found that a substantial majority of 62% want a referendum upon whether we should remain in the EU. |
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| | Citizens for Global Solutions |
| | This resolution asks that the UN play an active part in the post-conflict transition in Iraq: from war to reconstruction to independence and democracy. | | | Introduced March 26, 2003 into the house by Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA). | | | the UN has a number of administrative mechanisms that might play a role in post-war Iraq, such as the UN Trusteeship Council, which has managed the transition to independence and democracy in several nations. |
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| | Zanzibar History, Independence, Revolution and Democracy |
| | All the more surprising then, that when the British finally gave back Zanzibar her independence in 1963, the | | | By independence the economy of Zanzibar, which had been in steady decline for decades, was not very healthy. | | | Over the next twenty years, a combination of unfortunate price collapses in the prices of cloves and copra, the two primary exports, combined with some rather naive and interventionist government policies brought the country to its knees. |
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