He was one of the founders of the Christian Democratic Union in North Rhine-Westphalia, in which he saw an interdenominational and democratic association of people opposed to Nazism.

The foundation of the party was preceded by the Appeal 1966 on October 10, in which the founders appealed to the people of the Netherlands to re-take their democratic institutions.

" Mama Sisulu has, over the decades, been a pillar of strength not only for the Sisulu family but also the entire liberation movement, as she reared, counselled, nursed and educated most of the leaders and founders of the democratic SA ", Zuma said.

He was one of the great preachers of his time, an erudite writer on Christian subjects, the first minister of Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the first settlers and founders of both the city of Hartford and the state of Connecticut, and cited by many as the inspiration for the " Fundamental Orders of Connecticut ," cited by some as the world's first written democratic constitution that established a representative government .< ref > Following the Rev.

Some of the PRSC's founders and leaders were originally business leaders and Roman Catholics who opposed the communist, democratic socialist and social democratic tendencies of Juan Bosch and José Francisco Peña Gómez, of the PRD and PLD.

One of the founders of modern Islamist thought he is credited with first developing the notion, later put in operation in Iran, of having western style democratic elections, but with a body of Muslim scholars to ensure all laws corresponded with Islamic teachings.

Another Englishman from Crewkerne who emigrated to the American Colonies was William Phelps who was born around 1599 and became one of the founders of both Dorchester, Massachusetts and Windsor, Connecticut, foreman of the first grand jury in New England, served most of his life in early colonial government, and played a key role in establishing the first democratic town government in the American colonies.

Thomas Jefferson, one of the founders of the United States democratic system, said " I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country.

Although Dissent still identifies itself with the liberal and social democratic values of its founders, its editors and contributors represent a broad spectrum of political outlooks.

The People ’ s Party founders were mainly notables from Aleppo who aimed at creating union between Syria and Iraq, maintaining a democratic government, and advocating stronger ties with the West.

In the years 1968-1989 he was a prominent member of the democratic opposition to communist rule and one of the founders of the Workers ' Defence Committee ( KOR ), working together with Jacek Kuroń and Adam Michnik, and together they started publishing monthly Głos in 1977.

He was also one of the founders of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ) and served as Chile's ambassador to New Zealand between 1990 – 92, under the democratic government of Patricio Aylwin.

The founders believed a research and education institute was needed to help continue the momentum of 1960s movements for equality and justice, while moving into new areas such as labor rights, environmental protection and democratic reform.

In Nelson Mandela's message to the celebrations, he called Dadoo " one of the giants of our country's struggle for freedom ", and " of the founders of a democratic South Africa ".

* Dignāga ( c. 500 ), one of the founders of Buddhist school of Indian logic.

* Vasubandhu ( c. 300 CE ), one of the main founders of the Indian Yogacara school.

Franciszek Bujak ( 1875 – 1953 ) and Jan Rutkowski ( 1886 – 1949 ), the founders of modern economic history in Poland and of the journal Roczniki Dziejów Spolecznych i Gospodarczych ( 1931 – ), were attracted to the innovations of the Annales school.

The axes represent the school's origins in a rural setting, and the determination of its founders who cleared the land and built the school on donated items and labour.

Léon Walras, one of the founders of the neoclassical school of economics who helped formulate the general equilibrium theory, argued that free competition could only be realized under conditions of state ownership of natural resources and land.

He was also among the founders of The Science School Journal, a school magazine which allowed him to express his views on literature and society, as well as trying his hand at fiction: the first version of his novel The Time Machine was published in the journal under the title, The Chronic Argonauts.

Jean-François Millet ( October 4, 1814 – January 20, 1875 ) was a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France.

Though today read primarily by sociologists and social philosophers, Weber's work did have a significant influence on Frank Knight, one of the founders of the neoclassical Chicago school of economics, who translated Weber's General Economic History into English in 1927.

Historian Knud Haakonssen has noted that in the eighteenth century, Cumberland was commonly placed alongside Hugo Grotius and Samuel Pufendorf " in the triumvirate of seventeenth-century founders of the ' modern ' school of natural law.

In 1926, together with Vilém Mathesius and others he became one of the founders of the " Prague school " of linguistic theory ( other members included Nikolai Trubetzkoi, René Wellek, Jan Mukařovský ).

Among the founders of the Tosafist school were Rabbi Jacob b. Meir ( known as Rabbeinu Tam ), who was a grandson of Rashi, and, Rabbenu Tam's nephew, Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel.

Patterning it after the liberal arts colleges of New England, the College's founders resolved " that the institution be at first a classical and English high school, rising into a college as soon as the wants of the country demand.

The founders of the school was 104 inhabitants.

Traditionally, he and his half-brother Vasubandhu are regarded as the founders of this school.

Her ancestors were learned people, fluent in many languages, known authorities on sacred Jewish texts and founders of a school of Talmudic studies.

In one of the rare translated texts of this German grown school of hermeneutics its founders declared: " Our approach has grown out of the empirical study of family interactions as well

Together, Dōgen and Keizan are regarded as the founders of the Sōtō school in Japan.

John Cowper Powys, D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, and Lucien Febvre ( one of the founders of the French historical school Annales ) wrote books about him.

With his brothers-in-law, Thessalus and Draco, he was one of the founders of the Dogmatic school of medicine.

Matsys was regarded as a cult figure during the 17th century in Antwerp in addition to being one of the founders of the local school of painting ( which climaxed with the career of Peter Paul Rubens ).

# Kapila 1. 3. 10 – a sage and one of the founders of the Samkhya school of philosophy

One of the first actions taken by the city's founders was to establish a public school, Franklin Academy.

Contributing houses throughout the Oak Ridge Historic District have long been associated with the school, as either the homes of founders and trustees, boarding houses, or the residences of principals, teachers, and officials.

The name derives from one of the city's founders, Stephen Bell ( eponymous with the local elementary school ), and from the presence of many small Streams or Brooks in and near the town.

In 1822, the school's founders, Henry Cockburn and Leonard Horner agreed that Edinburgh required a new school to promote classical learning.

Its founders envisaged CND as a campaign by eminent individuals who would work through the Labour Party and lobby government for a change in defence policy.

Oduduwa's sons would be the founders of the different city-states of the Yoruba, and his daughters would become the mothers of the various Yoruba obas, or kings.

The founders, however, considered that imperial honours had a cachet that the newly independent state would not be able to confer with a purely indigenous honours system – the Monarchy was thus maintained.

Francis Alison was one of the founders of the College of Philadelphia, which would later become the University of Pennsylvania.

The Omens ' guitarists Alexis Snouffer and Jerry Handley would later become founders of " The Magic Band " and The Blackouts ' drummer, Frank Zappa, would later capture Vliet's vocal capabilities on record for the first time.

Only a select few are chosen by the original founders to come to the island, and thus newcomers who were not given a personal invitation are not welcome, but are not sent away because to do so would jeopardize the secrecy of the community.

The green, white and red tricolour used by the Parti patriote between 1832 and 1838In Lower Canada, the celebration of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day took a patriotic tone in 1834 on the initiative of one of the founders of the newspaper La Minerve, Ludger Duvernay, who would later become the first president of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society ( SSJB ).

In 1987 Iberia together with Lufthansa, Air France and SAS founded Amadeus, an IT company ( also known as a GDS ) that would enable travel agencies to sell the founders and other airlines ' products from a single system.

The Northwestern founders did not finalize their commitment to siting the university there until they were assured the Chicago & Milwaukee railroad line would run there.

The program quoted Paul Weyrich, one of the founders of the conservative activist organization the Moral Majority, as saying " The Washington Post became very arrogant and they just decided that they would determine what was news and what wasn't news and they wouldn't cover a lot of things that went on.

Lemarchand and Satyr both joined the band shortly after the formation, but after the recording of the first demo the two founders left the band – Exhurtum would later go on to become drummer in Ulver and guitarist in several other bands, while Wargod left the music business.

It was this generation that would include founders of the kibbutzim.

The town established in 1831 was originally going to be called Kosciusko ( the name was drawn out of a hat ), but the founders of the town feared that it would be difficult to spell and pronounce.

When the five founders of the company thought they had found mineral called corundum, which would be used for making sandpaper, they began the process of setting up a mining company.

Although the Seaboard and Raleigh Railway Company would not be incorporated until late 1873, town founders envisioned it as a prominent trading center and market for western Martin County.

The Kyle family deeded to the International-Great Northern Railroad, securing their place in history as founders of a town that would bear their name.

Delia Derbyshire, an early pioneer of electronic music and one of the founders of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, was refused an interview for a sound engineer's job because Decca would not employ a woman in such a post.

He, in turn, profoundly impacted the development of political ideas regarding liberty, which would later influence the founders of the United States of America.

Jackson responded that the conflict in this case was between authority and the individual and that the founders intended the Bill of Rights to put some rights out of reach from majorities, ensuring that some liberties would endure beyond political majorities.

The group practice would continue to grow, eventually adding other physicians considered today as the " founders " of the Mayo Clinic.

Over the next four years, the Katipunan founders would recruit new members.

Inspired by their experiences of multicultural cooperation in international educational institutions, the founders decided that a fast-paced, intensive program in technology would be an ideal medium to bridge the divide.

Their sister Dorothy ( Dora ) Draper would marry Jacob Rabkin ( 1905-2003 ), one of the intellectual founders of US tax law.