Debates also occurred over whether it was better to learn art by looking at nature, or to learn by looking at the artistic masters of the past.

The same year the two major political parties assumed control of organizing presidential debates through the Commission on Presidential Debates ( CPD ).

The GUU Convenor of Debates is an ex officio member of the Board of the Dialectic Society, and the fourth Parliamentary of the year is dedicated the Dialectic Parliamentary.

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.

In the same year, William Cobbett, a newspaperman, began to print the Parliamentary 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.

Debates have recently emerged concerning the applicability of the Wenzel and Cassie – Baxter models.

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.

Debates about the definition and validity of this syndrome have a long history.

Debates concerning not only the single parents themselves, but also the children involved, support for the families in single parent households, and more have arisen.

Classical economics is generally agreed ( but see section Debates on the definition of classical economics below ) to have developed into neoclassical economics – as the name suggests – or to at least be most closely represented in the modern age by neoclassical economics, and many of its ideas remain fundamental in economics.

Perot could not have qualified for the debates in 1992 under these rules, and was able to show that various famous US presidents would likewise have been excluded from modern debate by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

Debates on the nature of Quebec's nationalism are currently going on and various intellectuals from Quebec or other parts of Canada have published works on the subject, notably Will Kymlicka, professor of philosophy at Queen's University and Charles Blattberg and Michel Seymour, both professors at the Université de Montréal.

Debates on the first sense of the phrase have many different points of view, from crypto anarchists who want to create a completely decentralized and anonymous banking system, to others who support enhancing the power of the government to find financial information in order to fight terrorism.

The Lane Debates have been re-enacted in recent years by historians from Yale University, the University of Connecticut and Oberlin College.

Debates surrounding the expansion and application of the doctrine have included whether or not detrimental reliance is required in order to bring the doctrine into effect, whether the doctrine can create a cause of action or merely provide a defence to a cause of action and whether or not the evolution of the doctrine has abrogated or abolished the rule in Pinnel's case.

Debates about the efficacy of DI have raged since before the final results of Project Follow Through were published ; however, there is substantial empirical research supporting its effectiveness.

Debates similar to those of the Historikerstreit in West Germany have been carried out in other countries independent of the German debate, especially after the Fall of Communism.

Debates have been centered on issues of incommensurability, sectarianism, fideism, relativism, truth and ontological reference.

Debates are still raging ( January 2006 ) about non-thermal effects of microwaves that have been reported in solid-state phase transitions.

Debates in previous years have focussed on such issues as the American presidential election, the environment and the future of the European Union.

Debates over public sociology have rekindled questions concerning the extra-academic purpose of sociology.

Debates have been raised in Iran regarding the possible health hazards of satellite jamming.

Debates within ethnic relations, particularly regarding the opposing perspectives of assimilationism and multiculturalism, have led to the accusation that feminism is incompatible with multiculturalist policy.

The name appears to have been coined by Samuel Johnson, thought to have been the author of an introductory essay ( in which " Columbia " already appears ) which explained the conceit of substituting " Lilliputian " for English names ; Johnson also wrote down the Debates from 1740 to 1743.

Debates did take place during the 1950s at the British Parliament in Westminster in which it was discussed that Hong Kong would have to be handed back to China if the colony's entrepôt trade could not be maintained.

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 such as the one between empiricists and rationalists.

Debates arise in these four fields about whether or not people or organizations are " really " rational, as well as whether it make sense to model them as such in formal models.

For convenient access to many of Ritzer ’ s substantive contributions to modern and postmodern social theorizing, see Explorations in Social Theory: From Metatheorizing to Rationalization ( 2001 ) as well as more recent work often co-authored with his many students, such as ( with J. Michael Ryan ) “ Postmodern Social Theory and Sociology: On Symbolic Exchange with a ‘ Dead ’ Theory ,” in Reconstructing Postmodernism: Critical Debates ( 2007 ).

Debates upon the negative vs. positive impact and evaluation of colonialism and colonization — such as those of colonial Christianization, genocide, third world debt, slavery, abolition of slavery, infrastructures and medical advances — upon the colonizer and the colonized continue to shape global and national politics to this day.

Debates in other state and federal elections often exclude Independent and third party candidates, and the Supreme Court has upheld such tactics in several cases.

Debates on this often revolve around the availability of alternate means of income or support such as a social safety net, charity, etc.

Herndon ’ s research was organized by such headings as " Lincoln's Development ," " Lincoln's Courtship with Miss Owens ," " The Lincoln-Douglas Debates ," " Miss Rutledge and Lincoln ," and " Lincoln's Ways.

Debates continue on things such as which system of measurement was used ; whether the scale is a single scale for the entire plan or varied for different elements ; if the plan is a copy from a lost prototype or the original ; if it is reflective of a single individual's ideas, or those of monastic council.

* 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.

" On October 8, 2004, Green Party candidate David Cobb was arrested in an act of civil disobedience, breaking a police line while protesting the Commission on Presidential Debates for excluding third-party candidates from the nationally televised debates in St. Louis, Missouri.

* Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate coauthored with David Birdsell ( Oxford, 1988 )

* Areas of Studies of Prof. Jose David Lapuz: ( 1 ) International Politics and Security Studies ; ( 2 ) Conflicting Methodologies in International Politics & Foreign Policy which he specialized in postgraduate courses University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK, as a British Council Scholar under the supervision of Dr. WJM Mackenzie, C. B. E., Classics Don at Magdalen College, Oxford and James Bryce Chair of Politics at University of Glasgow, and also the head of its Department of Politics and Moral Philosophy ; ( 3 ) Ethical Foreign Policy: Where does the Ethics Come From ; ( 4 ) Nationalism in Contemporary Perspective: Insightful Overview about the extent of Ethnic COnflict in today's world ; ( 5 ) Globalization and Development and ; ( 6 ) Development of International Relations Theory and the Great Debates.

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 ).

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

Debates over the Comprehensive system seemed about to become a major political issue, particularly with the election of a Conservative government in 1970.

Debates over the Manitoba Schools Question were particularly divisive, and brought down the government of Sir Mackenzie Bowell.

Debates regarding this issue relate to Romania's form of government, confronting the arguments that, on one hand, the government was mostly communist and on the other hand that the country was still a constitutional monarchy, with the king serving as the High Commander of the Romanian Army.