Reformers debated against beginning instruction with rules and were in favor of helping students learn to write by expressing the personal meaning of events within their own lives.

They were considered a Catholic innovation, not widely practiced until the 18th century, and were opposed vigorously in worship by a number of Protestant Reformers, including Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 ), John Calvin ( 1509 – 1564 ) and John Wesley ( 1703 – 1791 ).

Reformers hoped that the women's vote, in which New Zealand was a pioneer, would swing the balance, but the women were not as well organized as in other countries.

Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Huldrych Zwingli are considered Magisterial Reformers because their reform movements were supported by ruling authorities or " magistrates ".

Because of their authority, they were often criticized by Radical Reformers as being too much like the Roman Popes.

Reformers hoped that the women's vote, in which New Zealand was a pioneer, would swing the balance, but the women were not as well organized as in other countries.

The effect of his victory at Baden was dissipated, however, at the Disputation of Bern ( January 1528 ), where the propositions advanced by the Reformers were debated in the absence of Eck, and Bern, Basel, and other places were definitely won for the Reformation.

Wang Anshi's New Policies Group ( Xin Fa ), also known as the ' Reformers ', were opposed by the ministers in the ' Conservative ' faction led by the historian and Chancellor Sima Guang ( 1019 – 1086 ).

After 1517 he occasionally illustrated the old subjects, but he also gave expression to some of the thoughts of the Reformers, although his portraits of reformers were more common than paintings of religious scenes.

At the general election which followed, the Governor General was sustained by a narrow majority, but in 1848 the Reformers were again returned to power, and he and Lafontaine formed their second administration on March 11 under Lord Elgin and carried numerous important reforms, including the freeing from sectarian control of the University of Toronto and the introduction into Upper Canada of an important municipal system.

Reform's early policy proposals for immigration were seen as highly controversial in Canada including a policy pamphlet called Blue Sheet that was issued in mid-1991 stating that Reformers opposed " any immigration based on race or creed or designed to radically or suddenly alter the ethnic makeup of Canada ".

Under the tag " Operation Back to the Future ", it was launched in Spring 2005 as an umbrella for all original Reformers across the nation who felt that they were still without a political home.

Nevertheless, Mackenzie's tactics were successful and he and Ketchum won the seat as part of a landslide that saw the Reformers win a majority of the seats.

Consequently, the 1830 election saw the Reformers win only 20 of the 51 seats in the 11th Parliament of Upper Canada, though both Mackenzie and Ketchum were returned as members for York.

He also produced a letter from Thomas Storrow Brown of Montreal which falsely claimed that the Reformers in Lower Canada were about to rise.

) At a meeting on December 2 in Stoufferville, Mackenzie set forth his plan for rebellion in greatest detail: British troops occupied in Lower Canada would be unable to do anything as Reformers from the country marched on Toronto ; once there they would join up with Rolph, Morrison, and important men such as Peter Robinson, George Herchmer Markland, and John Henry Dunn ( who were not Reformers, but who had resigned from the Executive Council in protest of Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions ).

When Mackenzie and Lesslie subsequently campaigned against Baldwin in the October 1851 elections for the 4th Parliament of the Province of Canada, they were thus largely responsible for Baldwin and several other Reformers losing their seats, and Sir Francis Hincks and Augustin-Norbert Morin becoming co-premiers.

The Reformers were informed of this and the next day saw a meeting by the Adventist brethren with the Reform-Adventists.

These Forza Italia's social democrats were organized in four sub-factions: We Blue Reformers, Free Foundation, Young Italy and Circles of Reformist Initiative.

Reformers were convinced that a union would have to involve the creation of a new party, as opposed to one party being enveloped by the other.

Not all Reformers were in favour of the creation of a new right-wing political party.

There was court intrigue between the political rivals of the Reformers and Conservatives, led by the chancellors Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, respectively.

For the Reformers of Canada West, led by George Brown, the end of what they perceived as French-Canadian interference in local affairs was in sight.

In May 1998 a group of 550 language and literature professors, led by Theodor Ickler, Helmut Jochems, Horst Haider Munske and Peter Eisenberg, two of the Reformers, Harald Weinrich of the Collège de France, Jean-Marie Zemb of the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, and others, with a resolution requested the reversal of the reform by the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

In the mid-19th century, Reformers led by Isaac Wise completely rejected the kippot after an altercation in which Rabbi Wise's kipah was knocked off his head.

His great grand father Sir Richard Robinson led the Municipal Reformers, allied to the parliamentary Conservatives, to victory in the 1907 London Council election.

There was also an Anti-Confederation Party in New Brunswick led by Albert J. Smith, whose coalition of Conservatives and Reformers won the 1865 election.

This decision led to a split by those Radicals who were more keen on an alliance with the centre-right: this group, led by Benedetto Della Vedova, launched the Liberal Reformers and joined the House of Freedoms, eventually merging into Berlusconi's The People of Freedom party.

The description almost immediately appears to be describing the persecution of Reformers and Protestant or pre-Protestant groups of people who suffered persecution and execution before, during, and after the Middle Ages, and this view seems to have been held by Bruce R. McConkie in his first edition of Mormon Doctrine.

The Reformers made heavy use of inexpensive pamphlets ( using the relatively new printing press invented by Johannes Gutenberg ) so there was swift movement of both ideas and documents, including The Ninety-Five Theses.

Reformers in the Church of England accepted Protestant doctrine but the structure of the church ministry remained, and the Church alternated, for centuries, between sympathies for older traditions and radical Protestantism represented by the puritans, progressively forging a compromise between adherence to ancient tradition and Protestantism.

Reformers, swayed by the ideas of Zwingli, carried out acts of iconoclasm and banned imagery in churches.

Sola scriptura was a foundational doctrinal principle of the Protestant Reformation held by the Reformers and is a formal principle of Protestantism today ( see Five solas ).

Corruptions had crept in, the Reformers said, which seriously undermined the legitimate authority of the Church, and Tradition had been perverted by wicked men.

Nevertheless, the real witch-hunting craze was yet to come and arrived with the Protestant Reformation when Salem-style witch trials began to proliferate in the " Reformed " areas of Europe, the Reformers sometimes borrowing from books like " Malleus " precisely because it had been condemned by the Catholic Church.

According to these Reformers, even as early as the Apostles a natural process of corruption began, and reached a crucial point of development when the Christian church was made the official religion of the Roman Empire by Theodosius I.

*" What do the Protestant Reformers Mean by ' Total Depravity '?

:* The penal substitution theory ( which is a refinement of the Anselmian satisfaction theory developed by the Protestant Reformers, especially John Calvin, and is often treated together with the satisfaction view, giving rise to the " three main types " of atonement theories-classical or patristic, scholastic, and idealistic-spoken of by Aulen ).

The next explanation, which was a development by the Reformers of Anselm's satisfaction theory, is the commonly held Protestant " penal substitution theory ," which, instead of considering sin as an affront to God ’ s honour, sees sin as the breaking of God ’ s moral law.

Reformers seek a New Canada — a Canada which may be defined as " a balanced, democratic federation of provinces, distinguished by the sustainability of its environment, the viability of its economy, the acceptance of its social responsibilities, and the recognition of the equality and uniqueness of all of its citizens and provinces.

On 25 March 2001 the PPDS merged with the Socialists – Ideas in Motion and the Democratic Reformers to form the PD.

The Democratic Alliance ( Portuguese: Aliança Democrática or AD ) was a coalition in Portugal between the Social Democratic Party ( Portuguese: Partido Social Democrata or PSD ), the Democratic and Social Center ( Portuguese: Centro Democrático Social or CDS ) and the People's Monarchist Party ( Portuguese: Partido Popular Monárquico or PPM ), including also a group of dissidents of the rightwing of the Socialist Party which were disappointed by the previous Soares government, called The Reformers ( Os Reformadores ), including José Medeiros Ferreira ( who would later rejoin the PS ), António Barreto ( who remained a more or less centre / rightwing aligned independent ) and Francisco Sousa Tavares ( who joined the Social Democratic Party afterwards ).