According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

According to Plenge, the " ideas of 1789 " that included rights of man, democracy, individualism and liberalism were being rejected in favour of " the ideas of 1914 " that included " German values " of duty, discipline, law, and order.

According to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's arc of freedom theory, it is in Japan's interests to develop closer ties with India, world's most populous democracy, while its relations with China remain chilly.

According to Dewey, conversation, debate, and dialogue lie at the heart of a democracy.

According to social anthropologist María Clemencia Ramírez, the relationship between the guerrillas and the marches was ambivalent: FARC-EP promoted the 1996 protests as part of their participatory democracy policies yet also exercised authoritarianism, which led to tensions and negotiations with peasant leaders, but the cocalero movement brought proposals on behalf of the coca growers and defended its own interests.

According to France Bučar, one of the founding fathers of Slovenian democracy and independence, the democracy in Slovenia is very weak, with the power concentrated in the hands of a few people, as in the time of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia before 1991, and the Parliament being only a formal institution.

According to Paul Kurtz, considered by some to be the founder of the American secular humanist movement, one of the differences between Marxist-Leninist atheists and humanists is the latter's commitment to " human freedom and democracy " while stating that the militant atheism of the Soviet Union consistently violated basic human rights.

According to Putnam and his followers, social capital is a key component to building and maintaining democracy.

According to former U. S. President George W. Bush: " The march of democracy will lead to world peace.

" According to Putnam and his followers, social capital is a key component to building and maintaining democracy.

According to Zhao, through The Epoch Times it can be discerned how Falun Gong is building a " de facto media alliance " with China's democracy movements in exile, as demonstrated by its frequent printing of articles by prominent overseas Chinese critics of the PRC government.

According to Daniel Walker Howe ( 2007 ) Clinton is an authentic but largely forgotten hero of American democracy.

" According to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, in liberal democracies the political Right opposes socialism and social democracy.

According to the party platform, freedom, justice, and social solidarity, form the basis of social democracy.

According to labor historian Philip S. Foner, the Wobbly conception of industrial democracy is intentionally not presented in detail by IWW theorists ; in that sense, the details are left to the " future development of society ".

According to communist ideologists, the Soviet political system was a true democracy, where workers ' councils (" soviets ") represented the will of the working class.

According to Fukuyama, since the French Revolution, democracy has repeatedly proven to be a fundamentally better system ( ethically, politically, economically ) than any of the alternatives.

According to Talmon, totalitarian democracy sees freedom as something achieved only in the long term, and only through collective effort ; the political goal of ultimate order and ultimate harmony brings ultimate freedom.

According to him, U. S state objectives have led to internal conditions that resemble totalitarianism: " is a power establishment that over the course of the Cold War has spun out of control and now threatens not only the fundamental institutions of democracy, but even of life on the planet through the growing risk of nuclear war by miscalculation "

According to another view, the quest for authentically Theognidean elegies is rather beside the point — the collection owes its survival to the political motivations of Athenian intellectuals in the 5th and 4th century, disappointed with democracy and sympathetic to old aristocratic values: " The persona of the poet is traditionally based, ideologically conditioned and generically expressed.

According to its website " The mission of Givat Haviva today is to cope with the major issues that are on the agenda of Israeli society, and to foster educational initiatives, research and community work in the fields of peace, democracy, coexistence, tolerance and social solidarity.

According to Professor Stephen Tierney, perhaps the earliest notable example of academic interest in the deliberative aspects of democracy occurred in John Rawls 1971 work A Theory of Justice.

According to Villespin, the king's average approval rating of over 70 % through the years consistently out-performs those of elected political leaders, and a similar percentage of respondents consider that the king plays an important role in maintaining Spanish democracy.

According to him, while the first two visions ( the alter-globalism and the anti-globalism ) represent the reconstructed forms of old and new left ideologies, respectively, in the context of current globalization, only the third one has shown the capacity to respond more effectively to the intellectual requirements of today ’ s global complexities.

According to the Homeric-hymn to the Pythian, Apollo shot his first arrow as an infant which effectively slew the serpent Pytho, the son of Gaia, who guarded the spot.

According to Fitzgerald ( 1977 ) " Reinforcements arrived, and within fifteen minutes these ' vicious brutes ', who for some two hours had terrorized well-armed prison staff, and effectively controlled the prison, had surrendered and been locked up again ".

According to Dr. Kesia Reeve, who specializes in housing research, " in the context of adverse housing circumstances, limited housing opportunity and frustrated expectations, squatters effectively remove themselves from and defy the norms of traditional channels of housing consumption and tenure power relations, bypassing the ' rules ' of welfare provision.

According to the NFL's highlight film for the game, the 49ers had discovered Wersching's ability to effectively use the squib during their 1981 season opener when a leg injury kept him from fully powering into the football.

According to the BBC, America went back on this promise, effectively destroying the deal.

According to Hobbes ( in whose view government is not a party to the original contract ) citizens are not obligated to submit to the government when it is too weak to act effectively to suppress factionalism and civil unrest.

According to Raeder: " The British have always considered the Mediterranean the pivot of their world empire ... Germany, however, must wage war against Great Britain with all the means at her disposal and without delay before the United States is able to intervene effectively. Gibraltar must be taken.

According to Maureen Rhoden, this effectively meant that the development control system operated by local authorities ‘ policed ’ new housing demand.

According to local newspapers, the diplomatic immunity granted to the Russians was a worry for the British government since it effectively granted a licence for Tass to publish libellous newsletters without the threat of prosecution.

According to many contemporary sources, the king was considered poorly educated and therefore not qualified to conduct himself effectively in foreign affairs.

According to this theory, dubbed the " New Look ", since the Soviet Army was considerably larger than that of the United States, it therefore presented a potential security threat in too many locations for the Americans to counter effectively all at once.

According to Kuhn, Normal science possesses a built-in mechanism that ensures the relaxation of the restrictions that bound research whenever the paradigm from which they derive ceases to function effectively.

According to his accounts, the Gelugpas were the dominant power in the region, with their Lamas effectively governing the area.

According to the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, a major study led by the International Water Management Institute, managing rainwater and soil moisture more effectively, and using supplemental and small-scale irrigation, hold the key to helping the greatest number of poor people.

According to the Tassé report: " The Tripartite Agreement does not directly set a maximum number of flights or passengers at the Island Airport ; it does, however, establish noise exposure parameters which are not to be exceeded ( NEF 25 ), thus effectively providing restrictions on the number of flights.

According to Barbara Tuchman in The Proud Tower: Europe 1880-1914, this view was so influential on the British empire and American naval strategists of the turn of the 19th to 20th century, that it effectively motivated the rise of the United States Navy and Germany's and Russia's and Japan's attempts to become main naval powers.

According to the Church-Turing thesis, any effectively calculable function is calculable by a Turing machine, and thus a set S is recursively enumerable if and only if there is some algorithm which yields an enumeration of S. This cannot be taken as a formal definition, however, because the Church-Turing thesis is an informal conjecture rather than a formal axiom.

According to the Nazi government the Polish state had effectively ceased to exist, in spite of the existence of a Polish government-in-exile.

According to historian Jonathan Riley-Smith, the Hospitallers effectively established a " palatinate " within Tripoli.

According to laissez-faire economists such as Friedrich von Hayek, massive waves of unemployment, as in economic recessions and depressions, can be traced back to state intervention in the market, which effectively blocks the natural balance in means of production achieved through Say's law.

According to reports by Hakan Alfredson, M. D., and associates of clinical trials in Sweden, the pain in Achilles tendinopathy arises from the nerves associated with neovascularization and can be effectively treated with 1 – 4 small injections of a sclerosant.

According to early Methodist polity, describing a minister as located means that the minister has effectively been retired.

According to them, the real purpose of the move is to effectively " kill " ITEP.