"As Syrians, we envy your democratic system," Alaa told me.
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" Still, Obama said he thinks the democratic system is "stable.
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Donald Trump has also described the Democratic system as "rigged".
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It must be toppled and replaced with a democratic system.
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Very few voters will not select a more democratic system.
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He also calls for radical changes to the democratic system.
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It is in their interest to break (Mongolia's) democratic system.
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Americans see it influencing the core functions of our democratic system.
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Or the highly overrated democratic system which is already falling apart?
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Vigorous and sometimes noisy debate is vital to our democratic system.
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Taiwan once again demonstrates the strength of its robust democratic system.
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It carries moral and ethical implications that define our democratic system.
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Fear is one of the biggest paralyzers in a democratic system.
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And I think we have some problems in fixing the democratic system.
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The antagonism between them is abnormal for rivals in a democratic system.
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Some even talked about moving to a more democratic system of government.
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A democratic system for protecting the rights of minorities is desperately needed.
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The wheel of monarchy broken and a new more democratic system established.
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But ultimately our safety will come if we have a democratic system.
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In other words, gerrymandering has the power to distort a democratic system.
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There are legitimate questions about whether our democratic system is fundamentally broken.
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It's a monarchical order, not a democratic system where issues can be raised.
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And that's making it harder and harder for our democratic system to function.
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In the speech, I simply bowed to the majesty of the democratic system.
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It was much too cynical, and much too destructive of our democratic system.
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Our free and fair elections are the important bedrock of our democratic system.
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So if you want to be protected by both, choose a democratic system.
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Sharp disagreements are not just proper but essential to a robust democratic system.
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Lord Monckton, Nigel Farage, and Donald Trump set up a democratic system where countries
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But in a democratic system, the media aren't supposed to lick the ruler's boots.
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He thinks the North Korean dictator is taking advantage of the American democratic system.
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How he did it represents a larger cautionary tale for our entire democratic system.
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Now, a certain level of working the refs is inevitable in a democratic system.
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"Many countries are rivals of ours and of our democratic system," Mr. Potter said.
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So what does it mean to apply that word in an ostensibly democratic system?
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There are some signs that our democratic system is working to contain Mr. Trump.
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The executive branch, he says, has a persistent problem in the American democratic system.
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They have significant implications for how we govern ourselves in our unique democratic system.
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"He's also limited" in power due to the U.S. democratic system of checks and balances.
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"We want people to feel invited into our democratic system of government," Ms Kennedy says.
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The remedy is not mob rule but a purging of parties from the democratic system.
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You are attacking the very sense of the nation, whether we have a democratic system.
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" "A qualified candidate's ability to appear on the ballot is fundamental to our democratic system.
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That is a principle at the very core of a democratic system based on accountability.
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"We live in a democratic system that is only democratic on the exterior," explains Deaibes.
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For Ms. Warren, a distorted democratic system is the result of the maldistribution of wealth.
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The democratic system itself is feeling the pressure, particularly in the run-up to elections.
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The democratic system is not innate or inevitable; it is learned by each new generation.
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That is the role and the responsibility of career public servants in our democratic system.
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That is the role and the responsibility of career public servants in our democratic system.
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This "railroading" the bill through is a disgrace and an insult to our democratic system.
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The point, more fundamentally, is that mucking with the democratic system itself is extremely dangerous.
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But I would say the more immediate danger is the increasing dysfunctionality of our democratic system.
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The US can threaten charges or impose sanctions when Russian trolling agencies attack its democratic system.
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Who needs hackers and trolls when the President is undermining faith in the democratic system himself?
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As in any democratic system, disagreeing with the majority is rarely a good reason to disengage.
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Mr. Trump's broad criticism of the democratic system overshadowed his own insistent efforts to put Mrs.
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But Ryan's biggest failure so far is not standing up for America's democratic system of government.
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Your sense of America is predicated on the assumption of a reliable and stable democratic system.
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That would be a very effective way to secure a nomination in a purely democratic system.
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Democrats must stand up for the safety of the American people and our entire democratic system.
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Any democratic system will rely to some degree on good character, on a duty of reasonableness.
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Unlike China, which has imposed unprecedented restrictions, Italy operates within the limits of its democratic system.
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It's how do you change the system from a dictatorship into a democratic system in Syria.
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In a democratic system, the voters are supposed to listen to the candidates and make a choice.
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This will protect our democratic system because it allows threats to be instantly understood and proactively managed.
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A scrappy politician, you can imagine him thriving in any full-throated democratic system, unlike Mr Heng.
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India is blessed with a deeply entrenched democratic system, but that is no shield against poor decisions.
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Terrorist attacks are an attack on our values, our way of life and our liberal democratic system.
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It may have much more to do with the damage this process did to the democratic system.
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The airport symbolizes everything the terrorist group detests, including modernization, international integration and a secular democratic system.
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"A qualified candidate's ability to appear on the ballot is fundamental to our democratic system," Brown said.
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Ideally, American leaders would set aside their partisan differences to protect the democratic system from foreign meddling.
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Now is the time to act quickly and decisively to ensure the integrity of our democratic system.
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It is an aboveboard political party that is vying for power in Tunisia's fledgling constitutional, democratic system.
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In 2018, the advertising industry will have a responsibility in securing the integrity of our democratic system.
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It might be fair, but it arguably needs to be justified, at least in a democratic system.
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Such a response may infuriate some hardcore supporters, but it is essential to preserving our democratic system.
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We have to tell them, 'No, there are two parties that work within the U.S. democratic system.
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"A qualified candidate's ability to appear on the ballot is fundamental to our democratic system," he wrote.
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As stated in the Federalist Papers, a large democratic system is one that will best represent minorities.
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But that doesn't mean that the threat to a healthy democratic system isn't real, Mr. Wertheimer said.
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Perhaps this rhetoric resonates well with a tendency to like to see the democratic system go down.
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Russia challenged the integrity of our democratic system, and Europe's 2017 electoral landscape is the next battlefield.
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But as China has demonstrated, it is certainly possible to generate rapid economic growth without a democratic system.
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So this is an attempt to correct for that pathology while keeping what's good about a democratic system.
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I think in any kind of good-functioning democratic system, there needs to be a way to appeal.
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The MEK is the most organized and sophisticated political movement seeking a democratic system in the Middle East.
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Donald Trump's presidency has sparked a rolling national discussion about the long-term vitality of America's democratic system.
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Our democratic system allows lobbyists to advocate for causes that are completely irresponsible, capricious, or even life-threatening.
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"As an insightful leader he should gradually lead Chinese society to an open and democratic system," Wu said.
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How unusual is it for a liberal democratic system like ours to allow judges to overturn laws outright?
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There are some people who say a dictatorship is much better than a democratic system to get there.
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In any event, the situation today is a far cry from auguring the renewal of this democratic system.
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The people who designed our liberal democratic system made fundamental errors, which are now coming home to roost.
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" On Palestinian statehood: "Israel needs to stay a Zionist country with a Jewish majority in a democratic system.
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"Even just the act of doing it is really an assault on our constitutional, democratic system," Goitein said.
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Throughout its history, Israel has held its Jewish essence and its democratic system in an often uneasy balance.
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This meddling is nothing short of a grievous attack aimed at the very foundation of our democratic system.
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She said she feels it's important for young people to fight for their freedoms and a democratic system.
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A democratic system of government needs a free flow of information that is fueled by a free press.
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In his remarks, Putin called Americans' disrespect for President Trump a "negative" feature of the American democratic system.
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And I think that would completely undermine the premise of equality that is central to our democratic system.
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Madison that the Supreme Court is the final arbiter of Constitutional interpretation in the American democratic system of government.
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No South Korean president has failed to complete a term since the current democratic system was implemented in 1987.
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In 2013, the CNRP nearly defeated the CPP, an outcome that had raised hopes for a more democratic system.
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No South Korean president has failed to complete their term since the current democratic system was implemented in 1987.
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It's time to pass a law that protects both special counsel Mueller and the integrity of our democratic system.
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But in strong democracies, institutions will step in to enforce vital norms, preventing escalation and protecting the democratic system.
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While the Chinese autocratic system can stand a host of challenges, underpinnings of a democratic system are more fragile.
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" "In September, we will have general elections and we will not accept fake news to disturb our democratic system.
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Sansa and Tyrion will devise a more democratic system of government, where each of the Seven Kingdoms are ruled individually.
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Abiy set out to develop an open competitive democratic system, inviting political leaders from opposition parties back home to participate.
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The United States was able to recruit many foreign spies because they believed our democratic system of government was better.
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If Trump officials conspired with Russians to influence the 2016 election, the implications for our democratic system would be immense.
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It's about whether the world in the coming decades will be dominated by a capitalist democratic system or by Beijing.
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"You're impugning the premises of the democratic system that's relied on peaceful transfers of power for 200 years," Keisling said.
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The perpetuation of Taiwan's democratic system was a core value of Taiwan's, the council said in reaction to Xi's speech.
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The right to vote is fundamental to our democratic system of government, and it is strengthened when every citizen participates.
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It is this wing of government that is tasked with implementing policy, administering programs and effectively running our democratic system.
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Mello said the junior congressman's "unacceptable authoritarian view" was a danger to Brazil's democratic system and disregarded the country's constitution.
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Securing our elections – and, in doing so, trust in our democratic system of government – must not become a partisan issue.
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Nevertheless, responding to the CCP's tactics requires demonstrating that our democratic system cannot be abused to coerce by the CCP.
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Let's just hope corporate America decides to "regulate" this area for us in ways that our democratic system would condone.
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But institutions are what allow people, whose experiences and interests differ and diverge, to live together in a democratic system.
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The mock territory raises the issue of "who is to vote and when" within a democratic system, Mr. Muñiz said.
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And I know that this has put a huge cloud over this presidency and also over our whole democratic system.
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It was our democratic system and the values of freedom and opportunity that made us a beacon on the hill.
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Today, 86 percent of Americans agree that such a representative democratic system is a good way to govern their country.
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And I know that this has put a huge cloud over this presidency and also over our whole democratic system.
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But his authoritarian instincts and impulses still pose a serious threat to the integrity of our democratic system of government.
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It has squeezed aspirations for democracy in Hong Kong and launched a campaign to undermine the democratic system in Taiwan.
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But even in that best case, it will take something more to restore America's democratic system to a more foolproof state.
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Since its founding, the United States has forced Indigenous people into a democratic system that has done little to serve them.
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Whether your candidate was elected or not, open, free and transparent elections are what make our democratic system function so smoothly.
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Even the most ardent critics of Russia's attacks on the American democratic system aren't seriously proposing military force as a response.
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It's calling for "urgent action" from government and regulatory bodies to "build resilience against misinformation and disinformation into our democratic system".
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I see the piece a priori for bio-politics of a system no matter if it's a totalitarian or democratic system.
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Our democratic system is increasingly the opposite of Turkey's, where President Erdogan is crushing dissent and centralizing more power every day.
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The fragile democratic system in this nuclear-armed nation of almost 200 million people again appears to be on shaky ground.
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Through both military oppression and manipulation of a weak democratic system, it has continually beat back efforts at reform from below.
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In a democratic system, the proper way to signal displeasure with supposedly unjust laws is to work to have them changed.
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When that compact is in place, Gage will not have the phrase "an ostensibly democratic system" to describe our great country.
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This in itself is an expression of faith by our Government in our democratic system and our determination to defend it.
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" As Business Insider noted, mostly the managers make clear that they "believe in the democratic system and in the rule of law.
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If I am not allowed to be sworn in as president, it would be a major abnormality for the Spanish democratic system.
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Democrats, Republicans and advocates of democracy around the world should view this as a supreme threat to their democratic system of government.
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But if you lose, you have to bow to the will of the people and salute the majesty of the democratic system.
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The requirement was not for toughness, but for forbearance and encouragement in the hope that a new democratic system could take root.
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And it surely wants to abort any course that could lead to peaceful unification of the Korean Peninsula under a democratic system.
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Philanthropy has the power to do a great deal of good, but so do tax dollars allocated in an equitable democratic system.
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"As a response to the Russian attacks on the U.S. democratic system, this would be both proportional and distinctive," Mr. Stavridis wrote.
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No South Korean president has failed to complete a single five-year term since the current democratic system was implemented in 1987.
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At the very least, our democratic system has to go through the legislative process to decide what we do with such people.
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That process, which has been shrouded in secrecy, fed hopes that the country's Communist leaders could be contemplating a more democratic system.
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The survey also finds that only 2202 percent of Americans trust the American people to make judgments under the country's democratic system.
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The perpetration of Taiwan's democratic system is a core value of Taiwan's, the Mainland Affairs Council said in reaction to Xi's speech.
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It is impossible to design a democratic system that finds the group's preference, because the group has no preference (see Arrow's theorem).
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Ghani has said the people must be allowed to choose their leader and peace can only be secured under a democratic system.
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There are organized pro-democracy movements in Iran and among the Iranian expatriate community working to establish a pro-Western, democratic system.
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"What we are looking at here is the American democratic system in its primordial ooze," Philip Mead, the museum's chief historian, said.
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Sanders also told Teen Vogue that the book will explain to a younger audience how to get involved with America's democratic system.
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The three northern regions agreed at a conference on Thursday to establish a self-administered "federal democratic system of Rojava - Northern Syria".
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By partnering with journalists, I sought to exercise our democratic system of checks and balances in a series of disclosures in 2013.
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I mean, there's still -- they still kind of have that leverage on the table because we have a democratic system here. Right?
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A loose registration process can cause the integrity of the entire system to be called into question, potentially undermining the democratic system.
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"If our democratic system was healthy and functional, Trump would never have made it into office in the first place," Greenberg said.
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In the age of Trump, the democratic system of checks and balances will not survive unless ordinary citizens rally to its defense.
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It is unprecedented in our democratic system for the executive branch of government to exercise so much control over the Judicial branch.
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And he's such a flagrant, toxic narcissist that he wants to take down the entire democratic system with him if he goes.
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I take your point, but I wonder if Trump is just kryptonite for a liberal democratic system built on a free press.
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White House spokesman Myles Caggins said the United States congratulated the people of Taiwan for demonstrating the strength of their "robust" democratic system.
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But the American people have spent hundreds of years building a strong democratic system, and they are prepared to fight to defend it.
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Depending on whom you ask, the new method of voting is either a push toward a more democratic system or a logistical hellscape.
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Second, all Americans should be united in advancing the cause of social justice that remains the bedrock of faith in our democratic system.
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This isn't because I opted out — on the contrary, I've wanted more than anything to participate in all aspects of our democratic system.
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Taiwan's democratic system of government, human rights record, and open economy are "saluted" in the GOP platform, but not in the Democratic platform.
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"In the last 100 days we've seen Trump's frustrations with governing in a democratic system, in trying to get things done," Misztal says.
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Yet the Democratic system of delegates has been in place since the early 23.5s to give party grandees more say in the process.
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They warn that what is unfolding is potentially damaging to America's position overseas and the institutions that underpin its democratic system at home.
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Washington (CNN)A bipartisan report released Tuesday is warning American institutions about future meddling in the US democratic system, following the 2016 election.
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However, in our democratic system he has the right to vote for whoever he believes will do the best job for four years.
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Lawmakers also rejected removing the word "disciplined" from the definition of the country's political system as a "genuine, disciplined multi-party democratic system".
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Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have spent months protesting the mainland's efforts to curtail the city-state's liberal and quasi-democratic system.
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To hold power in a democratic system means winning elections, and in a federal system like ours, it means winning elections everywhere geographically.
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We are admitting, to the world, that Russia can affect our democratic system by potentially changing the outcome of an American election. 2.
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Our democratic system of separated powers was set up to ensure that too much unbridled power did not end up in one place.
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"Anybody who is propping up conspiracy theories -- promoting mistruths or distruths -- is doing a disservice to the democratic system writ large," Jankowicz added.
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The phrase, meant to suggest there is an architecture of government that operates outside the democratic system, has quickly entered the mainstream political lexicon.
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KOBACH'S TIES TO ANTI-IMMIGRANT "HATE GROUPS" The notion that undocumented immigrants are perverting the American democratic system by voting illicitly isn't anything new.
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Rather, it's that the democratic system is weakening, because its citizens have come to believe that its key institutions are not working for them.
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Without an unwavering entrenched establishment providing bureaucratic stability, our democratic system would cease to function in the ever-changing winds of temporal political shifts.
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Lastly, some might worry that fast track would forestall the kind of public deliberation that is so central to our democratic system of government.
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"These methods show a lack of knowledge about the real meaning of the democratic system and how a democratic society works," the ministry said.
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While the economy is voters' main concern, some fear that Morocco's movement towards a more democratic system—and a more constrained monarchy—is faltering.
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It's not a participatory democratic system where everyone's putting in their share and collectively we're building the civil society that we all, together, want.
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But Perón also rose on a wave of massive discontent with the democratic system, wealth inequality and the feckless, flaccid power of the elites.
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"The essence of our democratic system is policymakers, or members of Congress, is they win or lose at home, not in Washington," he said.
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"This district election shows that the central government needs to face the demands of a democratic system," Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai said.
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The flawed elections, which excluded the country's principal opposition party, represent the most significant setback yet to the democratic system enshrined in Cambodia's Constitution.
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President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election by a landslide by positioning Taiwan as an independent country defending its democratic system against autocratic China.
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I hope that dialogue will prevail and that solving this crisis will be an opportunity to improve our democratic system and strengthen our institutions.
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"The goal of the organization was to shake and eventually destroy the democratic system and social cohesion of the federal republic," the GBA said.
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"This district election shows that the central government needs to face the demands of a democratic system," Democratic Party chairman Wu Chi-wai said.
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In both cases, a leader comes to power with the explicit goal of taking a democratic system and replacing it with an authoritarian one.
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In short, Rauch, Sullivan, and other fellow travelers see the current chaos as a response to too much and too open a democratic system.
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Its federal, democratic system will give voters plenty of chances to let it be known how badly Mr Modi has messed up his rupee rescue.
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"The Western democratic system is hailed by the developed world as near perfect and the most superior political system to run a country," it said.
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Citizenship comes with severe responsibilities, especially within a democratic system, and we must not let a few bad cops and a crazed sniper define us.
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Critics blasted Trump for subverting perhaps the most basic principle of our democratic system -- that election results, reflecting the will of the people, are sacred.
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Suspicion of the democratic system is so pervasive on the right because it's driven by the fear that white Christian America is facing demographic doom.
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Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the court's conservatives had already made great strides in structurally tilting the American democratic system in the Republican Party's favor.
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"This is a fundamental issue... a question that has great significance for cohesion of the country and the legitimacy of the democratic system," he said.
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Nelson told the news outlet that the state has to act quickly, emphasizing that Russia is trying to undermine faith in the U.S. democratic system.
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Polls frequently show that Americans have low or declining confidence in the American democratic system, especially when it comes to Congress and the political parties.
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The efforts of authoritarian rulers to extend their influence, including to use our open society against us, present a serious threat to our democratic system.
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"This bill gives Congress the ability to fulfill its Constitutional responsibilities, strengthen our democratic system and ensure that no one is above the law," Gov.
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It shows the enormous responsibility on the special counsel Robert Mueller's shoulders to keep the country and our democratic system safe from our Kremlin adversaries.
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Even more worrisome, the confusion we're seeing now could throw doubt on the entire process, something Hasen says is extremely dangerous in a democratic system.
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This means that Congress cannot compete with the President on policy and our democratic system cannot compete with the private sector on technology and data.
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"An election is one of the main exercise of a democratic system but it has lost its meaning in Afghanistan," Masoudi said at his residence.
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His own tweet helps undermine the credibility of our democratic system which is something we expect Russia to do, not our own commander-in-chief.
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It is yet another signs that the foundations of our democratic system may be more rickety than we ever would have imagined six months ago.
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It is therefore, safe to say until the Triage is effectively destroyed and a democratic system is installed, Zimbabwe's political and economic problems will persist.
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"The international community must address the fact that they have funded a democratic system which is now lurching dangerously towards a one-party state," he said.
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"The flawed elections, which excluded the country's principal opposition party, represent the most significant setback yet to the democratic system enshrined in Cambodia's constitution," Sanders said.
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Still, the American democratic system is designed to make sure that no one branch of the federal government has total control over any aspect of governance.
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Yet his weightiest words came moments later, when Mr Bush urged America to secure both its electoral infrastructure and democratic system against subversion by foreign powers.
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"The point that Mr. Trump was trying to make was the Democratic system is rigged; it's been rigged from the beginning for Hillary Clinton," he said.
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As former state AGs, we feel compelled to refute such assertions as harmful to consumers, antithetical to our democratic system, and contrary to real-world experience.
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While I am saddened by his passing, I am pleased that he lived to see the democratic system that he helped establish flourish for 28 years.
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Only about 49 percent of Mexicans expressed support for a democratic system in a recent study from Vanderbilt University and the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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At a time when trust in democracy is waning, everybody kept underlining their faith in our democratic system, that voting is the way to make change.
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It emerged with a democratic system and a free society after the 2011 overthrow of its authoritarian president of 153 years, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
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No lawyers are required for these disputes that typically involve a few hundred dollars, making it a democratic system and a rare window into class concerns.
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What's worse is the damage Iowa has done to shake our faith in the American democratic system and constitutional order with their ineptitude and faulty app.
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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen won re-election by a landslide by positioning Taiwan as an independent country staunchly defending its democratic system against autocratic China.
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"The flawed elections, which excluded the country's principal opposition party, represents the most significant setback yet to the democratic system enshrined in Cambodia's constitution," Sanders said.
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" It stands "ready to bring prosperity to Thailand with respecting the decision of the people under democratic system with the King as our head of state.
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Opposite the polling station, Othman Dabbousi, 63, sat next to his fruit stand and said he would not vote, preferring a non-democratic system of rule.
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There's a long history of understanding that journalism is, at its best, a really important part of the checks and balances built into our democratic system.
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By design, our democratic system of government with checks and balances lacks the speed and ability to counter and combat authoritarian regimes, like China and Russia.
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Both prominent politicos had warned in the run-up to the 2016 election that then-candidate Trump would be a threat to the nation's democratic system.
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Lindsey Graham blasted President Donald Trump, saying Tuesday he was undermining confidence in both the American democratic system and himself with the continued claims of voter fraud.
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Because the Democratic system is proportional, he basically needed to improve his share of the vote by about eight points in every state to be tied today.
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Rather than acquiescing in a Chinese takeover of the island as he, Kissinger and Mao initially contemplated, he saw Taiwan's democratic system as ruling out that possibility.
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If kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice is considered unacceptable, where does kowtowing to a foreign dictator who attacked the American democratic system fall?
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Until we understand our class system, warts and all, we will be saddled with an anemic democratic system that only makes our class and race resentments worse.
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"Therefore, these amendments would have endangered not only the rule of law but also the functioning of the democratic system," said the panel, called the Venice Commission.
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"All problems will be addressed normally based on a democratic system with no use of special powers," he said, referring to sweeping powers the military government wielded.
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And Republican legislators, at both the state and national level, have shown a willingness to deploy Fidesz-like tactics that undermine the fairness of the democratic system.
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If the U.K. fails to leave the European Union, then Britain's entire democratic system would be under attack, the opposition Labour party's Kate Hoey told CNBC Thursday.
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Germany, as Europe's central power and biggest economy, should monitor attempts to weaken its democratic system and publicize them so that citizens can educate and protect themselves.
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Taiwan and China have different systems, laws and values, it added, in a pointed reference to Taiwan's freewheeling democratic system in contrast to China's autocratic form of government.
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They would rather work through and get five justices to put something through that couldn&apost make it through the Democratic system, especially on state-by-state basis.
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But make no mistake, it's a flawed democratic system that doesn't actually do the will of the people, except for at the very moment it elects its representatives.
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The three Kurdish-controlled regions agreed at a conference in Rmeilan in northeast Syria to establish the self-administered "federal democratic system of Rojava - Northern Syria", officials announced.
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"You start with a decentralized democratic system, but over time you get the emergence of a leadership class with privileged access to information and social networks," DeDeo explained.
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My colleague Casey Newton has rightly pointed out that making Facebook a "democratic system," as Zuckerberg has put it, could let the platform duck responsibility for hard decisions.
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WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller began his hotly anticipated testimony Wednesday with a brief opening statement about the threat Russia's election interference posed to the American democratic system.
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"This bill gives Congress the ability to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities, strengthen our democratic system and ensure that no one is above the law," said Cuomo, a Democrat.
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But human-rights groups want sanctions to be maintained on officials in Myanmar's armed forces until it is crystal clear that the new democratic system cannot be overturned.
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"This bill gives Congress the ability to fulfill its constitutional responsibilities, strengthen our democratic system and ensure that no one is above the law," said Cuomo, a Democrat.
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The results undermine faith in our democratic system of government and have made it nearly impossible for our government to solve the many big problems we are facing.
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That November, a majority of the American electorate rejected Trump, but he and Pence won the White House anyway, thanks to a flaw in the nation's democratic system.
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Protests in the city have been ongoing for 10 weeks, sparked by frustration over a proposed extradition bill and Hong Kong residents' desire to keep their democratic system.
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They are the three great players in the battle to preserve and protect liberal democracy in the continuing attack by Russia against our democratic system and national unity.
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Republicans' indifference to democracy allows Trump to behave in a wild and dangerous fashion; in turn, Republicans defend Trump and further weaken the fundamentals of the democratic system.
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" She said that fines and prosecutions "punish the bad actors" but that her true aim was to "effect change and restore trust and confidence in our democratic system.
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Minor changes to the political and electoral system, each one potentially defensible on its own terms, amounted to an attempt to undermine the functioning of the democratic system.
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But the long-term threat of democratic backsliding, of a major party undermining the small-d democratic system from within over the course of time, is very real.
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No one needs to like this virtual democratic system, however, it is far better for our government to function from a distance than to not function at all.
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Before the 2016 election even took place, a survey showed that 46 percent of Americans had either lost faith or never had faith in the American democratic system.
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The democratic system our founding fathers gave us is one that values everyone, not just those in the political majority or those that subscribe to a preferred ideology.
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Bolton also said there are three options the United States needs to look at for North Korea: regime change, Korean unification under a democratic system or military force.
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He wasn't merely acting corruptly — he does that all the time — but actively undermining the integrity of the 2020 election and thus the health of the democratic system.
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Russian trolls destroy the democratic system with fake news on Facebook; hate speech flourishes on Twitter and Reddit; the vast fortunes of the geek elite worsen income equality.
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While he did not draw a parallel with the 1989 revolution, he condemned Mr. Babis for abusing the democratic system that came after years of struggle and turmoil.
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This is why the DCMS committee's preliminary report last year called on the government to take "urgent action" to "build resilience against misinformation and disinformation into our democratic system".
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A yearly cap of 50,000 is scarcely calculated to accommodate either America's needs for foreign talent and expertise or the most basic humanitarian goals of the nation's democratic system.
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It's not outrageous to suggest that Gabbard has benefitted from foreign assistance, but accusations of a compromised candidate delegitimize the democratic system just as effectively as actual Russia interference.
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Kotleba and two other lawmakers are facing extremism charges and prosecutors took steps in May to ban the entire party, saying it posed a threat to Slovakia's democratic system.
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He holds both Labor and Blue and White responsible for lending legitimacy to incitement against Israel's Palestinian minority by not treating them as equal players in the democratic system.
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But blind faith in the democratic system we've grown up with blinkers us to the realities of how China, the world's superpower-in-waiting, gets stronger through democracy's misadventures.
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It is clear that governments in all democratic societies have the responsibility to provide for the security of those living in their countries and of the democratic system itself.
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The letter was prepared by Project Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit that monitors the executive branch and the presidency for what it describes as behavior corrosive to the democratic system.
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From President Donald Trump to state-level GOP candidates to local Republican Party officials, conservatives are declaring themselves as the only legitimate political actors in the American democratic system.
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Though the bill isn't explicitly connected to the Russian cyberattacks on the American democratic system in 2016, lawmakers who introduced the bill referenced the climate of uncertainty it produced.
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Hong Kong is in its third month of protests that started in opposition to a proposed extradition law and have expanded to include demands for a more democratic system.
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" In October, 2016, Thuli Madonsela, the Public Protector of South Africa, whose mandate is to expose threats to the country's democratic system, published a report titled " State of Capture.
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Mariano Rajoy, Spain's caretaker prime minister, called on opposition parties on Tuesday to allow him to form a new government or risk jeopardizing Spain's democratic system and economic recovery.
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The SDF wants a "democratic system based on diversity, equality, freedom and justice" for all the country's ethnic and religious groups, he added in a voice message to Reuters.
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Only a quirk of America's democratic system—namely, that the Electoral College occasionally hands power to someone who doesn't receive the most votes—brought him to the Oval Office.
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There may be good reasons not to vote, but it does hurt our democratic system that the voter turnout in the US is lower than in other developed countries.
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Kurdish President Masoud Barzani announced last year that he would not seek another term as president, proving the general Kurdish commitment to maintaining the integrity of their democratic system.
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The mere mention of the AI-5 decree by Guedes brought an outpouring of reaction from Brazilians who saw his remarks as an attack on the country's democratic system.
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Here's an idea: what if we set tech policy by a democratic system involving our duly elected representative instead of whatever these corporations think is best for their image.
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" "The President obviously doesn't recognize the role of Congress in a democratic system," Nadler said, adding, "It's supposed to hold the administration accountable -- that's what we're trying to do.
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And second, I'd just learned that posting photos with sticker proof of your buy-in to the democratic system is actually an impactful way to encourage others to vote.
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And if we don't start doing something soon to protect our democratic system, we must content ourselves with the dubious distinction of being both Putin's last -- and next -- victim.
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But we can only do what a democratic system will allow us to do, which is to start pushing harder for regulations and laws that check reckless, greedy overreaches.
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As many people have explained, this is dangerous; it undermines the trust that our democratic system of governance relies on and could lead to voter intimidation on Election Day.
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H. R. McMaster, who had said at a security conference in Germany on Saturday that the indictment provided "incontrovertible" evidence that Russia had interfered in the American democratic system.
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An organized boycott targeting Blizzard is also a relatively rare opportunity for ordinary citizens around the world to help out the Hong Kong protestors working to protect their democratic system.
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The flawed elections ... represent the most significant setback yet to the democratic system enshrined Cambodia&aposs constitution, and substantially erode Cambodia&aposs achievements in promoting political reconciliation and economic growth.
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America's core institutions may not be in perfect health, but they seem to be functioning well enough to constrain a president who's gone after essential parts of its democratic system.
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Trump is now reaping a similar kind of whirlwind — the kind of problems you would expect someone with his impulses to face when trying to operate in a democratic system.
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Making false accusations of voter fraud when thus far state official across the country have disputed such claims does not provide stability or trust in our democratic system of government.
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More dangerous than the policies of either flawed presidential candidate, populism threatens the very existence of our Democratic system and requires the full attention of our next Commander and Chief.
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For Taiwan, this imperative does not mean perpetual rule for any particular party or leader — it does mean preservation of Taiwan's de facto independence and its democratic system of government.
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Letter To the Editor: "Electoral Map a Reality Check to a Trump Bid" (front page, April 3) is heartening news for every voter eager to preserve the country's democratic system.
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This system could be a model for all of Syria, a country where any functioning democratic system would have to include all ethnic groups and religions in order to survive.
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"My fellow Americans, I stand before you this morning in bare-faced awe of the majesty of our democratic system," Selina says in a televised speech that begins the episode.
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It's the beginning of a low-down, muddy campaign that will pump venom into our democratic system, and likely drive people to hate politics even more than they already do.
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In addition to opening a new chapter with Laos, Mr. Obama established relations with Myanmar when the former military dictatorship of that country agreed to move toward a democratic system.
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The challenge — not only to candidates like Bernie Sanders but to the democratic system as well — is to demonstrate how voting can affect the daily lives of these young Americans.
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There is great hope for democracy in other countries that have not been mired in civil or internal conflict, such as Tunisia, which is struggling toward a lasting democratic system.
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Nevertheless, absent Mr. Trump's commitment, there can be no robust mobilization to take all measures needed to confront an insidious problem that strikes at the heart of the democratic system.
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And all our strengths were enabled by a democratic system and political class that at key moments always found ways to compromise to renew the elements of our growth model.
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In an extreme situation, a mass riot could become a dangerous excuse for those who seek to undermine the democratic system by using the upsurge of radicalism as its pretext.
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Now you can argue that they were illegitimate or that they were invidious or they were exclusionary, but the federal government needed legal tools to overturn a functioning democratic system.
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But when a democratic system offers you awful choices you have a right, like Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, to say: "I would prefer not to" — and go vote libertarian.
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In a healthy democratic system, when politicians violate important norms, other institutions push back, ensuring that the violators pay a hefty price and the guardrails are preserved for another day.
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They are enshrined in Article II, Section I of the U.S. Constitution, the blueprint for our democratic system of government and the founding document upon which our society is built.
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His strategy did not just pollute the truth, but used an official agency to do so, threatening the governing credibility that is at the root of any successful democratic system.
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But by and large, there's a safety net in that society that works quite well, and is consistent with a free market and civil liberties in a very democratic system.
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Yet lawyers working on U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into vote meddling have named 12 GRU Russian military intelligence operatives that U.S. intelligence says did invade the U.S. democratic system.
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But the fact that sober scholars are worried about the possibility, warning about potentially dire consequences for the US government, exposes yet another point of vulnerability for the American democratic system.
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It's an old trope, and not unique to Germany, but again, context matters — and in today's climate, it reinforces the idea that there is something fundamentally wrong with our democratic system.
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"This man is the one who created this democratic system," said Shir's 24-year-old deputy Nihad Khalid Ali, who, like many SDF fighters, wears an Ocalan patch on his shoulder.
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"We must stop re-fighting the referendum and come together to honour the democratic will of the British people or we will risk undermining faith in that democratic system," he said.
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"I stand before you this morning in barefaced awe of the majesty of our democratic system," Selina tells the American people in a post-election-night speech that opens the episode.
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Many fear that Donald Trump is leading America, and by extension large swaths of the world, toward a post-democratic system that no longer recognizes any form of traditional constitutional government.
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The use of the injunctions "strikes at the heart of our democratic system" and allows "unelected judges to second-guess the domestic policy and national security decisions of our elected officials."
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In an era when the commission's database is a prime target for adversaries foreign and domestic keen to sabotage and distort our democratic system, protecting America's elections demands protecting American voters.
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"The Western democratic system is hailed by the developed world as near perfect and the most superior political system to run a country," Xinhua's Liu Chang writes, with practically palpable irony.
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Schetyna also pledged to "renovate" democracy in one legislative package, in reference to PiS moves to increase control over the judiciary and media which critics say have undermined the democratic system.
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Romania's leaders are targeting anticorruption prosecutors with accusations that they are part of a "parallel state," the latest move in a campaign to erode the country's judicial independence and democratic system.
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As prosecutors committed to the rule of law, we urge you to consider the damage to our democratic system of any attempts by the administration to derail and delegitimize the investigation.
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But no longer can we hold innocent the president's enablers, from his MAGA-hat-wearing rally groupies to my colleagues in Congress who simply remain silent while our democratic system collapses.
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"It is very difficult to maintain such structures in a democratic system," said Elshaday Kifle, a lecturer at Addis Ababa University who is studying the impact of such networks on women.
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To participate in the democratic system is one marker of the American experience; their vocal activism speaks to everything immigrants have worked hard to attain as they've spread roots in America.
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Imagine that you live in a democratic system that imposes some new rule that requires you to do something that you don't want to do — say, wear a seatbelt in your car.
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What connects us is the pride in our country, which just like a start-up built a democratic system from scratch and secured the economic freedoms with a system of independent courts.
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"We want Ortega out of the country and a return to a democratic system with a free media and the right to protest," said Leina Garcia, a journalist with El Nuevo Diario.
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If Trump and his skepticism toward NATO doesn't take the White House, a weakened Clinton at the head of a frayed Democratic Party and a damaged democratic system also serves Moscow's purposes.
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In his view, it's not because of partisanship or the failure of the Democratic system, but rather special interest money flowing unfettered into campaigns, squelching any potential bipartsian compromises on climate legislation.
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It has its own currency, judiciary, army and police force, a workable state apparatus and a fledgling multi-party democratic system, making it considerably more functional than many of its regional counterparts.
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That is the effect of any Western policy that further empowers regime insiders at the expense of those who are vying every day to change the regime into a truly democratic system.
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They were scheduled for October after the government came under pressure from international donors, who see elections as the most basic litmus test for the democratic system they helped put in place.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's president on Thursday urged Israelis not to lose faith in their democratic system after persistent political deadlock threw the country into a third election in less than a year.
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It's hard to imagine a change in tone making much of a difference in the polls, but it might make Americans feel better about participating in the world's oldest continuous democratic system.
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It was a British colony ruled first from afar and then by a semi-democratic system stacked in favor of the government, which was what Beijing inherited when it took control in 1997.
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December: The FBI and CIA agree that Russian efforts to influence the election were specifically targeted in order to help Trump win, and were not just an attempt to delegitimize America's democratic system.
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Part of my challenge with the current critique is I think people are conflating their unhappiness with the decisions of folks who have been elected in our democratic system with critiques of philanthropy.
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Not only will every race, tribe, and faith field armies of spinners and speech police against one another, but there will then be the shared conviction that the democratic system itself is corrupt.
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Americans need answers to these questions for an abstract but fundamental purpose: so they can maintain faith in the nation's democratic system, or take appropriate electoral action if that faith is not warranted.
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Recent polls indicate that roughly 30 percent of Americans would prefer government "with a strong leader who doesn't have to bother with Congress and elections" or "army rule" to our current democratic system.
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Their language generally assumes the possibility of a well-functioning democratic system, in which ideas are heard and debated, compete with other ideas, and the ultimate result is a messy but legitimate compromise.
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Since then, Taiwan has morphed into a vibrant democracy and its political, societal and cultural gaps with Communist China has widened, particularly among the younger generations that have lived under a democratic system.
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He has confirmed what every critic of his has been saying for the last four years — that he is unhinged, ill qualified and actively seeking to interfere in the democratic system of government.
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"The flawed elections, which excluded the country's principal opposition party, represent the most significant setback yet to the democratic system enshrined in Cambodia's constitution," said the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
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So, while Russia was trying to take advantage of divisions in American society, we're in effect doing the same thing — but the way we sow divisions is by fostering a stronger democratic system?
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The argument follows the same thread: If Trump refuses to concede the election, he'll threaten the basic trust that our democratic system of governance relies on, and the whole system could come tumbling down.
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Rather, it's that there are a lot of factors that go into a democracy working the way that it's supposed to, including respect for civil liberties and citizens' faith in their country's democratic system.
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The survey found many of the new arrivals shared Germany's values - 96 percent agreed there should be a democratic system and 92 percent said equal rights for men and women were part of democracy.
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" Many historians and Jewish groups inside Poland also denounced the bill — one group wrote the legislation "would constitute an unprecedented (and unknown in a democratic system) intrusion into the debate about the Polish history.
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As the House and Senate continue to examine the wave of disinformation around the 2016 presidential election, concerns around the security of voting systems examine something even more germane to the U.S. democratic system.
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"We have unmasked a falsely democratic system," where left and right alternate and assist each other to preserve the status quo, said Fabio Massimo Castaldo, a Five Star Movement member of the European Parliament.
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Norbert Lammert, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, said the referendum was about "transforming an undoubtedly fragile but democratic system into an authoritarian system - and this second coup attempt may well be successful".
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The question is whether Judge Gorsuch's views of our democratic system, and the constitution, provide a privileged role for voters and citizens or for special interests such as business corporations and large economic entities.
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But his decisions on the subject appear to arise out of his view that the Constitution created a democratic system in which the laws are made by a Congress elected by the American people.
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The murder last month of a prominent regional politician by a suspected neo-Nazi shook Germans and prompted the interior minister to warn that right-wing extremism was a threat to Germany's democratic system.
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The second such election follows a decision by the charismatic monk, an 80-year-old Nobel Peace Laureate, to relinquish his political authority and vest it in a democratic system that could outlast him.
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President Emmanuel Macron decided to go ahead with the elections last week despite concerns that people may be more at risk at polling stations, saying it was vital the democratic system to continue functioning.
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But Taweekiat noted that the party should revise wording in its manifesto, which states that it abides by "democratic principle per the Constitution", to say "democratic system with the king as head of state".
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But Taweekiat noted that the party should revise wording in its manifesto, which states that it abides by "democratic principle per the Constitution", to say "democratic system with the king as head of state".
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The U.S. Senate recently received a report that the Russians will attempt to influence of upcoming midterm elections, Congress is running out of time and needs to act now to defend our democratic system.
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But considering all of the misinformation out there at the moment and the real and present danger to our democratic system, I think it's clear that the hammer is the best way to go.
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We discussed why democracies collapse, what norms are most essential to preserving a healthy democracy, and what happens when a major party in a liberal democratic system decides to stop playing by the rules.
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Drug money is an essential part of Albania's democratic system, because the best way of securing people's votes is to pay them in cash, and the best generator of cash is the drug trade.
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Depending on whom you ask, the new method of voting, which allows voters to rank their candidates from favorite to least favorite, is either a push toward a more democratic system or a logistical hellscape.
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Ranked-choice advocates say this is simply a more democratic system and less expensive than runoff elections, which have to be held separately and typically have very low turnout (case in point: the Texas runoff).
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On one side are the "pan-democrats", who argue that only a democratic system can safeguard the civil liberties the territory enjoyed under the British (whom many of the pan-democrats opposed, before the handover).
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But the fact that this gracefulness is noteworthy at all is depressing: A loser accepting a legitimate defeat is the most basic of behaviors you should expect from a political party in a democratic system.
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What we are seeing is the White House putting themselves on the same page as the Kremlin, when they [the Russians] have been spying on the United States and attacked our democratic system in 2016.
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Spotify is a democratic system in the sense that if people really like it, and the 'vital signs' as we call them are good, then the system will figure it out and spread the word.
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Sanders still looks favored to emerge from Super Tuesday with a significant lead in delegates, which could be difficult to overhaul even if Biden can unite moderates, given the Democratic system of proportionally awarding delegates.
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Second, in relation to China's political influence in Australia, whether it is to undermine Australia's democratic system or not, it is also just to protect themselves or that regime, which also needs to be clear.
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Hotbed of anti-government feeling While the protest movement may have its roots in the extradition bill and frustration with Hong Kong's semi-democratic system, economic and class concerns are not far from the surface.
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On the one hand, Germany's democratic system is remarkably stable; on the other, it has a severe problem with right-wing extremist violence that again has been rising steeply since the refugee crisis of 2015.
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If those structures become hostile to democracy — or if they tend to cement a minority faction in power — a difficult amendment process prevents the nation from replacing those flawed structures with a more democratic system.
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"You can go election after election, Mr. Putin is meddling in other countries, in their democratic system, and the President, when he's talking about the state of the union, he needs to talk about Russia."
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The result is that instead of one institution checking another in ways that strengthen the democratic system, those institutions undermine one another's already scant legitimacy, leaving the stronger unelected bodies to intervene again and again.
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Just because Washington's politics for the moment appear to the world to be polarized and chaotic, that doesn't necessarily mean the U.S. democratic system and its institutions are less stable and enduring than those China.
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Well, but to say that sort of suggests ... I mean, we have a responsibility, democracy, whatever your politics, democracy ... In the democratic system it's the responsibility of people in power to govern and defend it.
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"He wants a Turkey where he is the undisputed, unchallenged decider without the constraints of a normal democratic system," said James Jeffrey, a former U.S. ambassador to Ankara and a senior fellow at the Washington Institute.
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To me, the good news/bad news of the situation is that we don't really need to worry about a Thiel-induced slippery slope leading to the collapse of the free press and the democratic system.
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The most dangerous thing the U.S. can do right now is nothing — if Americans shrug and forget about this as the election passes, they're leaving their future elections, and even their democratic system, in serious jeopardy.
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Most covert influence programs are driven by more than one objective, however, and I believe the primary objective of the Russian influence program was to undermine the legitimacy of elections, and thus our liberal democratic system.
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The paradox of the Trump era is that the party that controls all three branches of government is deeply inimical to the democratic system while the party that believes in governance is shut out of power.
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Republican and Democratic voters should both be able to agree that this anti-democratic system—one that promotes minority rule determined by a random set of swing states—has no place in the twenty-first century.
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"We must not lose faith in the democratic system or in its ability to create the reality we live in with our own hands," said Rivlin, a former Likud legislator whose current post is largely ceremonial.
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That's worked so far, but it's not how most countries work — a country like, say, Germany is held together by a common German national identity and by a democratic system with the consent of the governed.
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"You cannot run a democratic system unless you have a well-informed public, or a public prepared to defer to well-informed elites," says Larry Kramer, president of the Hewlett Foundation and an expert in constitutional law.
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Yet, by the admission of Tsai Ing-wen, the president, it faces a potentially fatal threat: "China's attempts to use the openness and freedom of our democratic system to interfere in Taiwan's internal politics and social development".
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They knew that a democratic system that required compromise was the best safeguard of liberty in a country as large and fractious as ours, and the best assurance that politicians served the broadest good for the citizens.
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"I call upon the authorities of mainland China to face up to the reality that the Republic of China exists, and that the people of Taiwan have an unshakable faith in the democratic system," Ms. Tsai said.
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President Emmanuel Macron decided last week to go ahead with the elections, saying it was vital the democratic system continue to function, despite some criticism and concern over the possibility of people being infected at polling stations.
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If the Senate confirms him without resolving these questions, we face the prospect of a new associate justice who poses a grave danger to the legitimacy of the court — and our democratic system of checks and balances.
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A judge examining a case brought by Yedioth Books for the return of the materials warned that the raids and seizures undermined freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, cornerstones of the country's democratic system.
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American efforts to instill a democratic system in the country, and to improve opportunities for women and minorities, are at risk if the Taliban, which banned girls from schools and women from public life, become dominant again.
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And yet here I was, agreeing to dialogue with a fellow immigrant, who seemingly approved of Trump's steps to undermine the immigration, if not democratic, system -- who supported a party I believed was lacking basic human decency.
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Political scientists have wondered in recent years how America's democratic system has so totally failed to tame inequality, in spite of middle-class voters swamping the rich; they wouldn't wonder as much had a different Republican Party emerged.
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Remember that Putin's Russia is stagnant, yet, through clever and brazen strategies it has managed to make itself into a major international player again by threatening Europe, disrupting the Middle East and attacking the U.S. democratic system itself.
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Oh, and the very pluralism of the Democratic system, while it can make the party diffuse and ineffectual, means that there's nothing like the right's unchallengeable orthodoxy, which in turn means that sometimes analysis and evidence can matter.
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It is propelled by a popular determination, solidified on the Maidan during the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, to root out corruption and build a democratic system in which leaders serve the people, and not the other way around.
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It should be all too real to Americans, what the costs are for our democratic system and our national security if public servants like Mr. Rosenstein, Mr. Mueller and the F.B.I. are delayed or disrupted in their mission.
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She said the US could make clear that Guaido's rise "doesn't require the end of Chavismo," the left-wing political ideology named after former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, but that it must be integrated into a democratic system.
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But despite the presidential bombast, those who live and work in the Congressional "swamp" (now downgraded by Trump to "cesspool" or "sewer" status) may have begun to find their voice as pressure on the American democratic system builds.
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In a video announcing his decision Tuesday, Mr. Merkley highlighted "three great crises" facing America that amount to a "battle for the soul of our nation," focusing on threats to economic equality, the climate and the democratic system.
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NLD lawmaker Aung Kyi Nyunt, submitting an "emergency proposal" to discuss a committee that could propose amendments, said the constitution was "not in line with the democratic system" and the "desires of the people" should not be ignored.
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While Xinhua's editorials are not direct missives from Beijing, they do reflect government thinking: "The Western democratic system is hailed by the developed world as near perfect and the most superior political system to run a country," it said.
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So the company had slightly more room to promise fixes for a broken democratic system, although the patent doesn't really cover methods for raising the quality of online debate, beyond making sure the right people get invited to participate.
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Also as well is when you have unmet needs, that's what I'm saying if these needs are met then we'll be able to move forward as a nation you know following a democratic system, then we can do that.
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At a hearing, Tillerson suggested that American foreign policy should be focused first upon confronting the regime over its regional destabilization and then ultimately upon facilitating transition to a democratic system of government, driven by existing voices of opposition.
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All of us were impressed with the diversity of opinions within Israel's vibrant democratic system, the complex challenges facing Israel and the ways our two nations are working together to promote our mutual strategic interests in a dangerous region.
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In these years, Macedonia has also has made strides toward the establishment of the rule of law, a bona fide democratic system of governance, Euro-Atlantic integration, as well as the accession for both European Union and NATO membership.
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" She also pointed to allegations of Chinese influence over those elections, saying Beijing's "attempts to use the openness and freedom of our democratic system to interfere in Taiwan's internal politics and social development (have) now become Taiwan's greatest challenge.
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That campaign, too, is expected to present a challenge for Israel's democratic system: Mr. Netanyahu is now almost certain to try to extract a deal from his coalition partners to pass a law retroactively granting him immunity from prosecution.
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In the last couple of decades the managers of power in Nigeria's "democratic" system have learned not only to secure approval for their political preferences but also to plant their enforcers in key positions before formally quitting the scene.
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As the Harvard note says of its own pitch, "radical as this proposal may sound, it is no more radical than a nominally democratic system of government that gives citizens widely disproportionate voting power depending on where they live."
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Yes, she hit back, but unlike Trump she acted not out of personal pettiness but out of concern for our democratic system and, with her tailor-made put-down, she showed she was not infected by Trump's juvenile style.
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The case of Amona has also stretched the country's democratic system, with right-wing politicians pushing to flout the 2014 Israeli Supreme Court order to demolish the outpost, and advancing contentious legislation in an effort to reverse the judgment.
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It's kind of a natural coalition: Blue and White is more of a center-right than purely centrist party, with the biggest dividing line between it and Likud centering on Netanyahu personally and his attacks on the democratic system.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler closed his panel's impeachment hearing on Monday with a condemnation of President Donald Trump's conduct as a continuing threat to the country's elections and democratic system of government.
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While the Soviet-era dominance across Eastern Europe undoubtedly was undermined by an expensive Cold War arms race with the United States, it was the Western Democratic system and America that many people looked to emulate, former diplomats said.
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The indictment says that while the Russians began their scheme in 2014 with the goal of undermining the American democratic system, they eventually shifted their focus to trying to help elect Mr. Trump and disparage his opponent, Hillary Clinton.
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"Events have demonstrated how our adversaries regard free elections – and the very openness of a democratic system – as key vulnerabilities to be exploited ... authoritarian regimes possess ways of undermining free societies that yesterday's dictators would have envied," he will say.
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In a statement published Wednesday in the daily Gazeta Wyborcza, the former leaders said they fear that a new law regulating the Supreme Court that takes effect on July 3 will destroy the democratic system of checks and balances in Poland.
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He should check that with Narendra Modi, India's prime minister, whose frustration with Mr Trump, on trade and otherwise, is said to have led India to seek warmer relations with Mr Xi. America's most important advantage is its democratic system.
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As a former correspondent for the BBC and political editor for The Observer, he is as well qualified as anyone to appreciate that nothing is ever achieved in a democratic system of government without a measure of give-and-take.
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In a speech to parliament in Tunis, Macron paid lengthy tribute to Tunisia's 2011 revolution, the first of the Arab Spring uprisings, and to its efforts to build a democratic system, saying they remained an example for a troubled region.
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"We must continue to work in a bipartisan fashion to determine the full extent of Russia's interference in our recent elections, identify the vulnerabilities of our democratic system, and come up with targeted recommendations for preventing future attacks," she said.
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It wasn't that Trump had a plan to destroy our democratic system; it was that his approach to issues ranging from minority rights to the value of a free press would lead him to take actions that would undermine democracy itself.
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Taiwan "will continue to strengthen its self-defense capabilities, defend the country's sovereignty and democratic system, and uphold the right of the 23 million people of Taiwan to freely choose their future", its Mainland Affairs Council said in a statement.
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Trump has supplied no evidence our voting systems are "rigged"—and to make such a claim in advance of most polls even opening is corrosive to our democratic system and the peaceful transference of power that we have exercised for centuries.
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Trump's embrace of the sanctions legislation may be an indication that he intends to adopt a more strategic policy toward Iran that would force concessions from the Islamic Republic or even encourage the transition to a new, democratic system of government.
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"I think that the machinery of the United States government, the defense machinery, the foreign policy machinery, has never wavered in understanding that Russia is an adversary and a threat to Western values and our own democratic system," Connolly said.
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More than three months after Election Day, lots of Americans are still trying to grapple with the odd result that our vaunted democratic system spat out: The guy running the country is disliked by most of the people in it.
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The biggest message Mueller wanted to leave with the American public was a very loud howl about Russia's attempts to undermine the American democratic system by hacking into the Clinton campaign computers and releasing private information that it stole there.
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Unlike in 1998, she stands on firmer ground: The Clinton case involved an egregious personal mistake and purported steps to cover it up; the Trump case involves an effort to thwart an investigation into a foreign attack on our democratic system.
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As Vox's Ella Nilsen previously explained: Ranked-choice advocates say this is simply a more democratic system and less expensive than runoff elections, which have to be held separately and typically have very low turnout (case in point: the Texas runoff).
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If they ultimately vote to acquit the president, they will only make undeniable what was already apparent: that congressional Republicans are not hapless bystanders in Trump's plots against the American democratic system, but willing and conscious co-conspirators to them.
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Unlike Russia's information campaigns in the United States, which have been artfully tailored to sow distrust in the American government and the democratic system, China's media efforts in the United States have tended to reflect more traditional forms of government propaganda.
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"When we surrendered in 1945, General Mark W. Clark said that we should re-establish the festival because with the help of culture and arts, we can re-establish the democratic system," Ms. Rabl-Stadler said, paraphrasing the general's sentiments.
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The far-right extremists, many of whom live in unauthorized settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, call for fomenting unrest to bring about the collapse of the democratic system in Israel and replacing it with a Jewish kingdom based on the Torah.
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Arguably, a more democratic system would be for each state to allocate electors on the basis of the popular vote in the state, so a candidate who gets 50.7 percent of Florida's two-party presidential vote would get 15 of Florida's 29 electors.
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He thinks Trump and the European right-wing populists are nasty nationalists, but not fascists, insisting that even those with authoritarian streaks believe in working within the democratic system and lack the territorial ambitions that were central to German and Italian fascism.
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Patricio for president, have given hope to some disenfranchised Mexicans that the way they are governed can be different, and better, with a more democratic system free of the deal-making and patronage politics that exist on practically every level of government.
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Right now, the official said, the intelligence community believes Russia just prefers Trump and it is too early in the process to tell if they are actively supporting his reelection rather than attempting to sow discord and chaos in the broader democratic system.
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By asking the two men who thwarted his White House dreams to lead mourners, McCain made a powerful point about lost decency in Washington, the imperative in a democratic system for political enemies to bury their differences, and the importance of national unity.
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" In a statement that could anger Beijing, which views Taiwan as part of China, Pompeo said Taiwan's democratic system, free market economy and civil society, made it "a model for the Indo-Pacific region and a force for good in the world.
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"The ruling means that Thailand's courts are to be a major anti-Shinawatra force not only regarding the upcoming election but under Thailand's new frail democratic system," said Chambers, a lecturer at the College of Asean community studies at Thailand's Naresuan University.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "They haven't drafted the articles of impeachment yet, but Democrats say Trump's impeachable offenses include abuses of power through self-dealing, betrayal of national security in the service of foreign interests, and corruption of our elections that undermine our democratic system.
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This may help explain why two-thirds of Americans also voice the view that a democratic system where citizens, not elected officials, vote directly on major national issues to decide what becomes law would be a good way to run the United States.
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If people stop believing that their votes count, and parties come to see voters as untrustworthy decision makers, then that sets up a far deeper danger — that voters and institutions will become not just unreliable, but not fully invested in the democratic system.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The murder of a prominent politician by a suspected right-wing radical is an assault on Germany's democratic system and should serve as a wake-up call, the interior minister said on Tuesday, pledging to combat all forms of extremism.
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That's the right thing to do for the democratic system, and it's also the smart thing to do for self-interested GOP players who want to ensure the blame for the party's defeat goes where it rightfully belongs: to Donald Trump himself.
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There's a ceremonial part of elections, which is I think critically important in terms of maintaining a democratic system, because at the end of the day, there has to be a reservoir of trust and good will and the ability to let bygones be bygones.
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Comey, echoing other top US intelligence and law enforcement officials, repeatedly stressed that Moscow had systematically interfered in the 2016 elections with an eye toward shaking Americans' confidence in the integrity of their own democratic system and weakening Washington's standing on the world stage.
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He beat the first President Bush, who was seeking re-election and responded by exalting "the majesty of the democratic system," telling voters that "America must always come first," and also saying: I want to share a special message with the young people of America.
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This could be cause for a moral crisis for a country that has established a strict regulatory and societal framework to prevent activities that incite hatred — including Holocaust denial and displaying swastikas — while maintaining the freedom of speech critical to a healthy democratic system.
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Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: Apple Podcasts | RadioPublic | Stitcher | Spotify | Google Play In the latest episode of the Opinion podcast, "The Argument," the columnists debate just how rotten America's democratic system has become and how it could be fixed.
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Yet the 40-page guide, which touted the "free democratic system in the South" and the instrumental role it played in "the ideological contest between the Communist and the Free Worlds," was also distributed to hundreds of American schoolteachers for use in their classrooms.
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Spain has recently undergone both a test and a reaffirmation of its democratic system of government, as our Supreme Court came to a verdict in the trial of Catalan secessionist leaders for their participation in the process that led to the illegal referendum of 2900.
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The phrase "like to see the democratic system go down" is chilling — and raises the question: How worried should we be about a fundamental threat to democracy from the apparently large numbers of Americans who embrace chaos as a way of expressing their discontent?
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The Justice Department said on Monday that it had "sought relief" from the Supreme Court on the issue of nationwide injunctions, a practice that Attorney General William P. Barr denounced last week as a partisan tool and a threat to the nation's democratic system.
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"The ultimate goal, just like what Russia tried to do in the United States, is to crush people's confidence in the democratic system," said Tzeng Yi-suo of the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, a think tank funded by the government of Taiwan.
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"We solemnly appeal to the Taiwanese public to face up to the fact that whether it is the Chinese internet army or the Chinese government, it is using the democratic system of Taiwan to infringe upon our democracy," the spokeswoman, Lee Yen-jong, said.
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The direct impact of meddling on the outcome of the 85033 U.S. election is difficult to assess, but there is no question that Russia succeeded in its larger goals of fomenting political crisis and undermining the electoral institutions at the heart of America's democratic system.
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"The PT doesn't have impeccable democratic credentials," but it has "always played by the rules of the democratic system," says Sergio Fausto, a director of the Fundação FHC, a think-tank founded by Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a former Brazilian president (and a political foe of the PT).
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These benefits are sometimes labeled as "CTO" or "Civic Time Off," and ensure that employees are not penalized but are instead encouraged to take time to participate in our democratic system, regardless of political affiliation, in whatever way is authentic to their core values and political beliefs.
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"Kenya's politicians and citizens have a responsibility to build trust in the democratic system and to find ways to ensure the electoral and judicial institutions are strong and effective," ambassadors from the United States, Britain and other Western nation said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
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"I think if you work within the Democratic system, you have to be incredibly honest about who the Democrats are, which is that they are pro-capitalism, very moderate, and don't want to move very far left to tackle the challenges we see worldwide," Schlakman said.
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The juxtaposition of the perceived politics-as-usual candidate and the insolent lunatic more prone to a temper tantrum than my five-year-old cousin merely confirms the biases of most people in my generation and serves to hinder the future prospects of our democratic system.
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On top of this, the polarization of traditional news media by Fox News and others is poisoning the capacity of the democratic system to build a sustainable consensus around what is left of the political center, as shown by the debacle of the American gun-control debate.
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They're dangerous to the--to our, you know, democratic system, and so Hillary, for all the things that are wrong with her, you know, at minimum, at least, you know, kind of America's role in the world and respect for our constitutional republic will remain the same.
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It's not like pro-wrestling, I'm not going to actually really hit him, but I'm going to hit him pretty hard on some issues because I've been really furious lately about Silicon Valley and its lack of responsibility, and its tarnishing of the American democratic system.
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Therefore, it is my strongly-held view that the appointment of Jefferson Sessions to the federal bench would irreparably damage the work of my husband, Al Turner and countless others who risked their lives and freedom over the past twenty years to ensure equal participation in our democratic system.
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Writers like Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker and Robert Kagan in The Washington Post have answered "yes," citing as evidence Trump's ethnic demagoguery, his scorn for and ignorance of the existing democratic system, his indulgence in conspiracy thinking, and his open admiration of autocrats like Vladimir Putin.
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To some degree, Trump appears to be caught in a bind between the passionate enthusiasm of his supporters, who have salivated over the prospect of an indictment against Clinton, and legal norms that would view a new investigation as political retribution that violates the sanctity of the democratic system.
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The very foundations of our democratic system are strained and buckling because so many working-class people, especially in economically depressed areas such as West Virginia, Michigan and pretty much all of rural America, believe the government has abandoned them and that they have no stake in the system.
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Therefore, it is my strongly-held view that the appointment of Jefferson Sessions to the federal bench would irreparably damage the work of my husband, Al Turner, and countless others who risked their lives and freedom over the past twenty years to ensure equal participation in our democratic system.
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For weeks, instead of focusing its full energy on investigating an attack on the American democratic system, the committee has been pulled into a furious effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to sow doubts about the integrity of the special counsel inquiry and the agencies conducting it.
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"It is my strongly held view that the appointment of Jefferson Sessions to the federal bench would irreparably damage the work of my husband, Al Turner, and countless others who risked their lives and freedom over the past twenty years to ensure equal participation in our democratic system," it reads.
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Over time, however, and especially from the mid-20th century on, the court's vision of its role in our democratic system changed, from dispute resolver to supreme arbiter of all matters of constitutional law, so that elected branches of government at federal and state levels were bound to accept its interpretations.
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"It is clear that much more work needs to be done before the midterm elections to harden our defenses, because foreign bad actors are using the exact same playbook they used in 2016 — dividing us along political and ideological lines, to the detriment of our cherished democratic system," he added.
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"Legislators have taken advantage of computer mapping and the ability to identify the likely votes of virtually every voter to really warp the democratic system, and I think the court recognizes that — or at least five justice recognize that," said David Cole, national legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union.
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For example, just a basic understanding of what the different arms of government are and how the political process works from the role of superdelegate and delegate, but it's also about how primaries work and how the whole process of the caucusing and the electoral college works in a democratic system.
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For this reprehensible conduct, he should not be rewarded with a federal judgeship," she wrote, arguing that Sessions' appointment would "irreparably damage the work of (her) husband, Al Turner, and countless others who risked their lives and freedom over the past twenty years to ensure equal participation in our democratic system.
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The United States, which struggled to help secure better rights for women and minorities and instill a democratic system and institutions in Afghanistan, has struck a deal with an insurgency that has never clearly renounced its desire for a government and justice system rooted in a severe interpretation of Islam.
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Before the sentence was handed down, Judge Amy Berman Jackson reprimanded Manafort from the bench for telling a series of lies that served to undermine the American democratic system during the years he worked as an unregistered foreign agent for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, before he signed up with Trump.
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The law that passed is a diluted version of previous drafts which included a clause to legalize the formation of villages and small towns for Jews only, a clause which put Israel's Jewish identity above its democratic system, and a clause that would order the courts to make verdicts according to Jewish law.
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"The Afghan people want peace, and I am ready to sacrifice anything, even my life, for it — but not the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, not the Afghan security forces, not women's rights," Mr. Ghani told one of the groups, stressing the democratic system in the face of Taliban's theocratic vision of governance.
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"We know that Deputy Ambassador Thae is saying that his distaste for the Kim Jong Un regime and yearning for the Republic of Korea's free democratic system and the future of his child are motives for the defection," Jeong said, referring to South Korea, adding that Thae and his family were under government protection.
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But be that as it may, what we cannot do is allege that the votes themselves even in these states is rigged, that the American democratic system is corrupt, that voting in this country is rigged, forcing a potential showdown after an election between a chosen president and the disgruntled supporters of a defeated candidate.
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The courts, the federal bureaucracy, the states, and even large numbers of ordinary Americans have all played a vital role in restraining the president's authoritarian tendencies.... America's core institutions may not be in perfect health, but they seem to be functioning well enough to constrain a president who's gone after essential parts of its democratic system.
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In the United States, Trump's attitude toward displaced refugee children -- arguably the greatest and most toxic challenge yet to its hold on power -- is the most immediate and vivid evidence that our leader does not champion any sort of effort for America to remain a shining beacon for nations aspiring to maintain or establish a democratic system of government.
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But the idea that there is a core of "adults in the room," as described by the op-ed writer, subverting the President's authority and wielding for themselves the power granted to the commander-in-chief during an election season should also be a troubling one, since it raises questions about the integrity of America's democratic system itself.
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Instead, we should retrain our gaze on the issues at hand: A loose-lipped President who is obstructing justice; a hostile foreign power interfering with our democratic system; and a craven, mealy mouthed majority party in Congress doing absolutely nothing because, hey, their guy won, and that seems to matter more than the integrity and security of the United States.
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Linker argued that liberals "respond to everything [Trump] says with instantaneous outrage and disgust," but it's not mindless to make a distinction between working with Trump through the democratic system (such as last month's spending bill, which funded some key Democratic priorities) and opposing him when he breaks established norms (as he is doing in using the presidential bully pulpit to intimidate Amazon).
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At a time when democracy is under attack from a foreign power, when the rule of law is under attack from the White House, when our democratic system of checks and balances is under siege in Washington, Americans will soon learn whether the inspector general of the Department of Justice is part of the solution or part of the problem.
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The bottom line is that, for midterm voters, the only way to protect the integrity of the investigation of the Russian attack against America, the only way to preserve the checks and balances that are the heart of our democratic system of government and the only way to protect the principle of equal justice under law is to vote Democratic on Election Day.
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"The scurrilous charges that have been made are reprehensible and a tactic frankly to avoid a substantive debate on important issues and to prevent the research, inquiry and study that is necessary to identify the problems in our election process, determine what the solutions are therefore to ensure we have the best election and best democratic system in the world," he said.
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"If you want to protect an open and democratic system, it will mean that you have to promote greater inclusion of what you understand as 'Dutch,'" and that means telling new stories, and coming up with new terminologies, said Karwan Fatah-Black, a lecturer in Dutch colonial history at Leiden University, who has served as a consultant to a dozen museums in the Netherlands.
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Though a student council election may be a far cry from a presidential one, the movie makes the point that political power and corruption can go hand-in-hand at any level—and as Tracy proves later in the movie, laser-focused determination and a willingness to dispense with anyone who gets in your way may very well be the cornerstones of our democratic system.
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And while our democratic system has certainly led to many progressive advances for the rights of minority groups over the past two centuries, these advances, as Hannah-Jones argues in her essay, have almost always come as a result of political and social struggles in which African-Americans have generally taken the lead, not as a working-out of the immanent logic of the Constitution.
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The North Miami Beach man became the subject of an FBI probe in spring 2018 after agents reviewed his Facebook posts and found they "exhibited a growing hatred for America, democracy, non-Muslims and secular Muslims, while expressing his belief in the violent overthrow of the democratic system and the destruction of those who will not accept his version of Islam," a federal criminal complaint says.
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But as President Trump prepares to meet next week with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey — no friend to the Kurds in Syria or in his own country — we ask the American president and people to be mindful of the enormous sacrifice the Kurdish people have made in this fight, and the importance of the unique democratic system we have worked hard to build in the area of Northern Syria known as Rojava.
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The Catalan economist and Columbia University professor Xavier Sala-i-Martin rightly pointed out in a 2018 interview that if someone from a Western democracy were to describe his society to visitors from Mars, they would likely be baffled to hear that we govern ourselves by a democratic system of laws and popular votes, yet leave our nations' borders up to the whims of colonial treaties or the results of long-ago wars.
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" What a contrast to Bayh's description of arriving at the Senate with Kennedy in 1962: "I think all of us Democrats were reading from the same page, from the same bible, so to speak, as far as feeling that we had a responsibility to make government respond to the needs of the people and to deal with some of the unfinished business that kept it possible for all of our citizens to share equal values in our democratic system.
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Indeed, Cambridge Analytica famously sold Facebook user data to political campaigns that was used to influence elections in the United States as well as the "Brexit" referendum in the UK. "A stabilising feature of a democratic system—opinion exchange—breaks down when this possibility for engagement and debate is destroyed because messages are disseminated in secret, targeting individuals based on their personal vulnerabilities to persuasion, without their knowledge and without the opponent being able to rebut any of those arguments," Wiesner said.
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Quite the contrary, the goal is the avoidance of war through the establishment of a new, democratic system of government — one that is defined by Maryam Rajavi's 10-point plan for the future of the country, a plan that calls for free and fair elections, peaceful relations between Iran and its neighbors, safeguards for the rights of women and minorities, and all of the essential principles that advocates of diplomacy should wish to see take root in the Middle East.
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