# Debates such as the one between empiricists and rationalists.

These debates are known as the Putney Debates, and were held in St. Mary's Church, Putney, in the county of Surrey, between October 28 and November 11, 1647.

When the Army held the Putney Debates between 28 October and 11 November 1647, the debate centred upon a pamphlet influenced by the writings of John Lilburne called An Agreement of the People for a firm and present peace upon grounds of common right.

He may have written parts of The Case of the Army Stated, and he put the views of his associates before the Council of the Army at the Putney Debates that were partly held in Putney parish church between 28 October and 11 November 1647.

The Leveller point of view had been strongly represented in the Putney Debates, held between the various factions of the Army in 1647, just prior to the King's temporary escape from army custody.

Debates between the Socialist Party of Great Britain and other groups were of particular importance in bringing the party case to an outside audience without the sometimes off-putting rhetoric of platform speaking, or the one-sidedness of educational talks.

Debates about the Australian of the Year award often revolve around the relative balance between sport, science and the arts.

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates were a series of seven debates in 1858 between Stephen Douglas, United States Senator from Illinois, and Abraham Lincoln, the Republican who sought to replace Douglas in the Senate.

The Lincoln – Douglas Debate format is named for the 1858 Lincoln – Douglas Debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, because their debates focused on slavery and the morals, values, and logic behind it.

The Lincoln – Douglas Debates of 1858 were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.

Monāẓarāt ( Debates in the form of poetry between two people or objects or concepts ) are also extant.

The union is notable for its five annual Parliamentary Debates, currently held between five clubs: the Scottish Nationalist Association, Her Majesty's Loyal Tory Club, the Whigs, the Independent Socialists and the World Almighty Distributist League.

The Commission on Presidential Debates ( CPD ) began in 1987 by the Democratic and Republican parties to establish the way that presidential election debates are run between candidates for President of the United States.

Criticism by Open Debates of CPD for the 2012 election include the secret contract between CPD and the Obama and Romney campaigns and CPD informing the candidates of the debate topics in advance.

The Putney Debates were a series of discussions between members of the New Model Army – a number of the participants being Levellers – concerning the makeup of a new constitution for England.

Debates between the two rivals remained bitter, in one case Bhutto had just returned from a successful trip abroad, and in a confrontational mood he lashed out at the opposition and Khan for slowing him down.

In the Introduction to his critical study of the ontological debates between Mipham and his Gelugpa opponents ( Mipham's Dialectics and the Debates on Emptiness ) Lopon Karma Phuntsho defines Mipham as a polymath and gives this assessment of the scope of Mipham's work:

Debates over the use of these tests in selection often involve trade-offs between two criteria that are valued by decision makers — that is, efficiency and equity.

Debates continued throughout the 19th century-notably, between Lamartine and Proudhon-and the inter-war period.

Journal des Débats-Portrait of monsieur Bertin, director, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres | IngresThe Journal des débats ( French: Journal of Debates ) was a French newspaper, published between 1789 and 1944 that changed title several times.

Debates raged back and forth between parties of opposed writers, a war of opinions waged over subjects like religion and the worth of women.

At the Putney Debates in 1647, Colonel Thomas Rainsborough defended natural rights as coming from the law of God expressed in the Bible.

Cobbett's reports were printed by Thomas Curson Hansard from 1809 ; in 1812, with his business suffering, Cobbett sold the Debates to Hansard.

* Gallant, Thomas W. " Greek Exceptionalism and Contemporary Historiography: New Pitfalls and Old Debates ," Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Volume 15, Number 2, October 1997, pp. 209-216

At the funeral of Thomas Rainsborough ( a Member of Parliament and also a Leveller leader who had spoken at the Putney Debates ) there were thousands of mourners wearing the Levellers ' ribbons of sea-green and bunches of rosemary for remembrance in their hats, as there were the next year, 1649, at the funeral of Robert Lockyer a New Model Army Agitator hanged by Oliver Cromwell for mutiny.

" Thomas Hart Benton, Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol.

After the Putney Debates the Army commanders Sir Thomas Fairfax and Cromwell were worried at the strength of support which the Levellers had in the Army.

Lilburne, John Wildman and Richard Baxter later thought that Oliver Cromwell and Henry Ireton had applied the term to Lilburne's group during the Putney Debates of late 1647.

* On January 6, 2009, BBC Audiobooks America, published the first complete recording of the Lincoln – Douglas Debates, starring actors David Strathairn as Abraham Lincoln and Richard Dreyfuss as Stephen Douglas with an introduction by Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce III Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College.

Debates on the Reform Bill ( eventually the Reform Act 1832 ) had highlighted the variations in systems of governance of towns, and a Royal Commission was set up to investigate the issue.

* Commission on Presidential Debates

Debates surrounding the emission of bonds have stalled the approval of the national budget for many months on several occasions, reason for which in 2006 the government will finance the deficit by reducing expenditure in other posts.

These ranged from Royalists who wished to place King Charles II on the throne, to men like Oliver Cromwell, who wished to govern with a Parliament voted in by an electorate determined by property ownership, similar to that enfranchised before the civil war, to the Levellers, influenced by the writings of John Lilburne, who wanted parliamentary government based on an electorate constituted of every head of household ( normally though not necessarily male as was acknowledged in the Putney Debates ), through to other groups with smaller followings like the Fifth Monarchists, Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers, the Ranters, and the Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

Debates on medical science now had two traditions, the more conservative Arabian and the liberal Greek.

Debates over the applicability of teleology to scientific questions came to a head in the nineteenth century, as Paley's argument about design came into conflict with radical new theories on the transmutation of species.

" Renaissance Debates on Rhetoric.

Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity ; namely, to treatises like the Timaeus of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called khora ( i. e. " space "), or in the Physics of Aristotle ( Book IV, Delta ) in the definition of topos ( i. e. place ), or even in the later " geometrical conception of place " as " space qua extension " in the Discourse on Place ( Qawl fi al-Makan ) of the 11th century Arab polymath Alhazen.

The Corkbush Field rendezvous on November 17, 1647, was the first of three meetings to take place as agreed in the Putney Debates.

Debates on the Virginia resolutions continued.

Debates were covered on front pages of college newspapers and emphasized in yearbooks, and team members even received the equivalent of athletic letters for their jackets.

Debates on global warming and its causes made significant progress, as climate change denials were refuted by most scientific studies.

One common explanation for the decline was Perot's exclusion from the presidential debates, based on the preferences of the Democratic and Republican party candidates ( as described by George Farah in Open Debates ).

In 1647, different factions of the victorious parliamentary army held a series of discussions, the Putney Debates, on reforming the structure of English government.

Pressure grew for the abolition of the selective principle underlying the " eleven plus ", and replacement with Comprehensive schools which would serve the full range of children ( see the article Debates on the grammar school ).

While the proclaimed goal was to level school quality up, the converse claim was made that the grammar schools ' excellence was being sacrificed with little to show in the way of improvement of other schools ( for details and sources on this and related arguments, see article on Debates on the grammar school ).

Debates of the House of Commons in the Year 1774 on the Bill for Making More Effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec: Drawn Up from the Notes of the Henry Cavendish, Member for Lostwithiel, London: Ridgway, 303 p. ( online )

The authenticity of this speech is questioned, however, since the Register of Debates and the Congressional Globe do not contain transcripts of speeches made on the House floor.

Lord Palmerston Addressing the House of Commons During the Debates on the Cobden – Chevalier Treaty | Treaty of France in February 1860, as painted by John Phillip ( 1863 ).

The ' Treaty Debates ' should also be seen as the first publicly reported debate on what Sinn Féin felt that it had achieved and could achieve.

* Debates on the grammar school