A republican form of government is distinguished from a pure democracy, which the Founding Fathers wanted to avoid ; as James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 10, " Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention ; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property ; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

Category: Fathers ' rights activists

* Fathers ' rights movement

* Fathers ' rights

On 23 January 2004, four protesters climbed onto the gantry over the Tamar Bridge to highlight the work of the group Fathers 4 Justice who promote the rights of fathers in child custody disputes.

Category: Fathers ' rights

Category: Fathers ' rights activists

The American Coalition for Fathers and Children was founded in 1995 by Stuart A. Miller and Dianna Thompson in an effort to provide a forum for discussion of male rights.

Fathers ' rights activists seek a gender-neutral approach in which unwed men and women would have equal rights in adoption issues.

Two protestors from UK-based father's rights group Fathers 4 Justice protesting in Peterborough in 2010.

See Fathers ' rights movement by country for more information about custody concerns.

Fathers ' rights groups in the West are primarily composed of white, middle or working class, heterosexual men.

The fathers ' rights movement organizations Families Need Fathers and the Lone Fathers Association have campaigned for fathers ' rights over many decades.

" As political parties had interests which were adverse to the rights of citizens and to the general welfare of the nation, several Founding Fathers preferred a nonpartisan form of government.

* Fathers ' rights

He was one of the earliest members of the father's rights and support group Families Need Fathers.

Fathers 4 Justice ( or F4J ) is a fathers ’ rights organisation in the United Kingdom.

Fathers 4 Justice's main impact remains upon media coverage and legal treatment of fathers ' rights issues in the UK.

* Fathers ' rights movement in the UK

* Fathers ' rights group scale abbey 13 April 2006

* BBC iCan: Fathers ' rights 12 July 2004

Fathers ' rights campaigners urgently want an " Early Interventions Pilot Plan " to test and develop compulsory mediation and parenting plans, etc.

A very recent essay by Leone Montagnini, discussing the question of the shape of the Earth from the origins to the late Antiquity, has shown that the Fathers of the Church shared different approaches that paralleled their overall philosophical and theological visions.

Before taking any steps to meet the wishes of Michael, Louis asked the pope's permission for a number of his bishops to assemble and make a selection of passages from the Fathers to elucidate the question that the Greeks had put before them.

Tertullian actively advocated traducianism ( that is, the parental generation of souls ), while some of the later Fathers — most notably Saint Augustine, at the outbreak of Pelagianism — began to question the creation by God of individual souls and to incline to the opposite opinion, which seemed to facilitate the explanation of the transmission of original sin.

Roman Catholics also counter that the Dogmas of the Assumption and Immaculate Conception are well-supported in the writings of early Church Fathers ( although some Protestants question the way Catholic theologians cite and interpret early Christian writings, or whether they have the same validity as the Holy Scripture ), in addition to being supported by Holy Scripture.

Although Pope Pius XII deliberately left open the question of whether Mary died before her Assumption, the more common teaching of the early Fathers is that she did die.

He was one of the Council Fathers who, in a speech delivered on 29 October 1964 concerning the document later promulgated as the Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes, raised the question of a possible change in the Church's teaching on birth control.

" The question of the vision of God, not only among Byzantine Theologians of the fourteenth century but also in earlier history, especially among the Greek Fathers, presents serious difficulty for those who want to study it from the standpoint of the concepts appropriate to Latin scholasticism.

Block idolized his squad leader named Sergeant Michael Strank, and according to the book, Flags of Our Fathers, followed Strank without question.

What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history, the one which reached Christianity by the way of Stoicism through the Church Fathers of Late Antiquity.

The Cappadocian Fathers asserted that God's nature is unknowable to man ; helped to develop the framework of hypostases, or three persons united in a single Godhead ; illustrated how Jesus is the eikon of the Father ; and explained the concept of theosis, the belief that all Christians can be assimilated with God in " imitation of the incarnate Son as the divine model.

However those that can present a sizable body of work, listed here in descending order of quantity: sermons and saints ' lives, biblical translations ; translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers ; Anglo-Saxon chronicles and narrative history works ; laws, wills and other legal works ; practical works on grammar, medicine, geography ; and poetry.

** Translations of some of Origen's writings can be found in Ante-Nicene Fathers or in The Fathers of the Church.

A list of quotations by the Early Church Fathers regarding free will and predestination can be found here.

English translations by Sidney Thelwall and Philip Holmes can be found in volumes III and IV of the Ante-Nicene Fathers which are freely available online ; more modern translations of some of the works have been made.

The Catholic Church recognizes that the addition of " and the Son " to the Greek form of the Creed would be wrong, because of the specific meaning of the Greek verb that is translated as " proceeds ", but it holds that both forms of the text, with and without " Filioque ", are orthodox in other languages, where " proceeds " can also represent a different Greek verb, used by Greek Fathers when saying that the Holy Spirit " proceeds " ( in that sense ) from the Son.

* Translations of some of Theodoret's writings can be found in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.

An English translation of his work can be found in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.

* Yumz ' iloob, ' Fathers ', ' Patrilineage Ancestors ' are autonomous and can be petitioned for good or ill through prayers before the appropriate lineage crosses, ( Villa Rojas 1945 ).

This can be interpreted as referring to the fact he was indeed laid down to rest alone while the other Fathers were laid to rest in pairs, but older versions of the story suggest that it meant Durin alone had no female companion.

Secondly, it can signify the " Founding Fathers " of the city.

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, the use of the term " Apostolic Fathers " can be traced to a 1672 title of Jean-Baptiste Cotelier, his SS.

Older English translations of these works can be found online in the Ante-Nicene Fathers series on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library website.

The movement's origin can be traced to 1974 when Families Need Fathers ( FNF ) was founded.

Apart from the historical theology of the Real Presence, many other aspects of the Eucharist have long historical roots that can be located in Church Fathers and Scripture.

Concepts foundational to covenant theology can be found in the writings of Church Fathers such as Irenaeus and Augustine.

In very traditional monasteries, readings from the Church Fathers can be added after each of the Sessional Hymns.

Fathers can also use the skin-to-skin contact method.

Fathers can be more involved in children's lives

Among the Apostolic Fathers, ' a strong case can be made for Ignatius ' use of ... 1 and 2 Timothy '.

Howard Gillman, in the book The Constitution Besieged: The Rise & Demise of Lochner Era Police Powers Jurisprudence, argues that the decisions of the era can be understood as adhering to a constitutional tradition rooted in the Founding Fathers ' conception of appropriate and inappropriate policymaking in a commercial republic.

Pope Leo XIII wrote that true science cannot contradict scripture when it is properly explained, that errors the Church Fathers made do not demonstrate error in Scripture, and that what seems to be proved by science can turn out to be wrong.