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• Political Science
  ...], theory of direct democracy, apolitical governance, participatory direct democracy [[nation]]al systems, cross-national political [[analysis]], political deve
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• Re-public
  ...as the Electoral College were intended to cushion the government from the direct expression of the popular will.
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• Consensus
  ...ated to the willingness of any given [[individual]] to take [[action]]. In direct action [[politics]], the consensus is constantly tested by asking those who ==In democracy==
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• Democracy
  [[Image:lighterstill.jpg]][[Image:Goddess-of-democracy,-tiane_2.jpg|right|frame]] ...k city-states, notably [[Athens]] following a popular uprising in 508 BC. Democracy is people who rule the government directly.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/a
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• Daynal Institute Press
  ...nding the ideals of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy direct democracy] to an emerging world seeking a "more perfect union" rooted in the knowledg
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• 2010-04-13-Monjoronson Q and A Session 96
  ...eator]], that all that is real and [[enduring]] is quite safe and under no direct attack by [[things]] of this world. So rest assured that on the level which ...s [[planetary]] [[adjudication]] and so I am, like you, [[focused]] on the direct implication of the [[time and space]] [[existence]] on this world at this t
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• 2021-06-02-One Will, Many Voices
  Daniel: Thank you for your question. These ailments, while not being a direct part of our commission to administer or minister to, do have some foundatio ...ed against by those who are pro democracy. What would happen if those pro democracy folk turned the other cheek? Would it work?
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• 2016-09-15-To Turn Things Around
  ...gain to your effort, your determination. This is the easiest and the most direct way of creating your stronger self with a greater determination to get hea *The spiritual value of democracy
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• 2016-03-17-Individual Duty in a Democracy
  ===Topic: ''Individual Duty in a Democracy''=== ...social and political life, if that is OK. I know the two of you generally direct yourselves to our personal, spiritual lives--what is happening right within
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• Basic Concepts of Social Sustainability
  ==16 The First Paradigm of Democracy== When the US democracy was formed it was the “state of the art” of democratic political
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• Theocracy
  In a pure theocracy, the civil leader is believed to have a direct [[personal]] connection with [[God]]. For example, a [[prophet]] like [[Mos ...tate of the Central Tibetan Administration.[9] The CTA defines itself as a democracy, governed constitutionally by the 1991 Charter of Tibetans in Exile.[9][10]
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• Sovereignty
  ...tical reality as in the [[Commonwealth Realm]]s. Systems of representative democracy can also be mixed with other methods of government, for instance the use of ..., a distinction upon which [[constitutional monarchy]] or [[representative democracy]] are founded. [[Machiavelli]], [[Hobbes]], [[Locke]] and [[Montesquieu]] a
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• 2014-11-03-New Era Conversations 33
  ...conversational with us throughout the day, and that we can have much more direct access to the developments on the material plane in what he does. This is ...Lord’s Will.” It will be very much similar to that process, but even more direct than the Prophets, in some ways. Yes, we do validate that the Prophets, be
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• 2010-02-09-Monjoronson Q and A Session 87
  ...[[influence]]. Much must be done to avert the disasters of a deteriorating democracy. Civil war is not part of that. ...]. The divisiveness of two parties is unfortunate and in a [[developed]] [[democracy]] it leads to great social inequity, the molasses-like movement of social a
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• 2007-11-12-Being Mother Spirit
  Imagine all the teeming life on them of the different direct orders of sons and daughters of Michael and I, and then peopled with all th ...r. Their contributions are expressed in your ever growing institutions of democracy. This is also the necessity and the glory of free media wherein almost any
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• 2012-01-12-Conversations with Monjoronson 38
  ...at is why many people in the United States, a highly developed, prosperous democracy, yearn to have millions of dollars. They feel that this will provide them ...ls who, while enjoying the privileges and benefits and rights of a matured democracy, yearn for greater opportunity to express their potential. They understand
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• 2015-07-06-New Era Conversations 50
  ...t I am saying is this: That when you become Finaliters, you will have the direct experience of a Creator Son’s Correcting Time plan as a formula for assis ...uilt into the decision-making processes. It is necessary in a sustainable democracy for government, (i.e. public executives, those who are elected and those wh
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• 2021-05-27-Friends Are Those You Get to Choose
  (True democracy forbids censorship) ..., and welcome their unique take on things. That is why Michael said a true democracy depends on no censorship. Let everybody have their say, and take it all in.
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• 2016-02-08-New Era Conversations 62
  ...e mission of democracy is to power and protect the individuals within that democracy. In the Urantia Book, 81:5.6 says, “The prime mission of government is t Societies must become very conversant, very open, very transparent, and very direct in their enculturation of the symbiotic relationship between societies and
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• 2006-11-19-Sustaining Government & Corporations
  ...rnment and democracies, and his long-standing interest in the evolution of democracy. That said, we know that there is a larger repository of knowledge and data ...is one form, yes. There are many types of democracies, as you will see, as democracy is studied in greater depth. There is no one, perfect solution; no one perf
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• 2005-08-28-World Report, Monjoronson Visit
  ...ring a constitution, which is hopefully leading to a democracy. Will this democracy be successful in Iraq? ...hould be pursued. These are some of the more obvious areas that you could direct your attention and your efforts to. Is that sufficient? (Student: Thank
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• Obedience
  ...r of [[authority]] has been progressively eroded, with the introduction of democracy as a major turning point in attitudes to obedience and authority. ...of [[human]] [[behavior]]. Despite the [[fact]] that [[relative]]ly little direct work had been done on the subject of obedience, Milgram himself had already
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• 2019-07-29-New Era Transition 69
  ...of your social institutions of the family, education, medical healthcare, democracy and so on. This is important to embed and invest and enculturate and socia Our democracy has not come to an end
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• 2012-03-15-Politics
  ...elders--men and women of lifetime experience and supposed wisdom--to help direct the affairs of the tribe; all the way down to modern days: the first thing ...tion--from the most severe fascist type of control to the most egalitarian democracy--there’s a certain concreteness of living men and women filling those pos
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• Intellectual History
  ;*[[The Enlightenment]]: [[Human rights]], new science, [[democracy]] (scholarly sources; [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]], [[Wilhelm Dilthey]]). ...o the moon of Truth, but then to let go of ratiocination and to experience direct entry into Liberation itself.
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• 2015-12-03-Perspective on Terrorism
  ..., somehow [[conquer]] it and readjust it, see that your role is not one of direct [[intervention]] in any of the details. Rather your role is to shower the e ...aware of each others plight and we definitely have as [[citizens]] of a [[democracy]], being presented with a number of different points of view of policy, nat
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• 2013-06-19-Revelatory Progress
  ...ities, there are effects to your causes, and so the interest is in how you direct your destiny for it will influence that of everyone.
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• Totalitarianism
  ...e., a pervasive scheme of [[values]] promulgated by institutional means to direct the most significant aspects of public and private life)[3]. ...alitarianism: in both works, he contrasted the "open society" of liberal [[democracy]] with totalitarianism, and argued that the latter is grounded in the [[bel
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• Philosophy
  ..., but a popular theory says that it occurred because Athens had a direct [[democracy]]. It is known from Plato's writings that many sophists maintained schools ...s most famous work, ''[[Plato's Republic|The Republic]]'', Plato critiques democracy, condemns tyranny, and proposes a three tiered merit based structure of soc
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• 2016-04-18-New Conversations 67
  Roxie: I have a question about our democracy here in the United States. It seems to me that our current situation of el ...our, or six years on election day, as is the case in your American form of democracy.
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• 1993-01-24-Ideals and Values
  ...ideal of lasting [[peace]], of [[harmony]] among men. The ideal of your [[democracy]] is one that is held up and workable and often [[attained]]. Ideals in [[d ...teacher]] has been with me?' Maybe that was [[manipulative]] rather than a direct question that I asked. And I [[apologize]]."
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• 2008-06-18-Faith in Oneself
  ...ed terms, some abstract notions, but to be open for this spontaneous, very direct, immediate way of contact, way of perception. It’s being very much aware ...o get a feeling and realize what is at stake here, one way for open-minded democracy, both within you and without, to grow. Think of each self-knowing individu
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• Socialism
  ...f the means of production via co-operative workers' councils and workplace democracy. ...grarianism]]; all co-existing with the most influential Marxism and Social Democracy. The Anarchists, led by the [[Mikhail Bakunin]], believed [[Capitalism]] an
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• 2012-06-07-Value of Teamwork
  ...d energy away from the work itself. There are times when a committee or a democracy, a democratic approach is appropriate but not always. So my point is that ...it will take it from there. It has all the qualities it needs to guide and direct your spiritual career. We just want to help turn the light on, get the bal
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• 2016-02-22-New Era Conversations 63
  ...a movement from the first paradigm of democracy to the second paradigm of democracy, your religions must move from the archaic, crystallized format of religion MACHIVENTA: The direct answer to your question, the last clause of your statement is “going with
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• 2017-04-03-New Era Transition 15
  ...with it comes the attendant assistance from us in a much more palpable and direct manner so that you know that you have help with you. ...volution, by civil war, then the capacity and capability of restoring that democracy reduces down to 0.5% — that is one half of one percent in the next decade
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• 2015-10-15-Free Will Depends Upon Creativity
  ...down or use one of your little recording devices, for it helps to be very direct and particular when you actually frame the questions in your mind on which On a political level true democracy is where people really feel free to express themselves and choose their own
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• 2016-08-08-New Transitions Conversations 1
  ...social sustainability. Freedom, liberty, and equality are primary to any democracy. Those values enable the capability of your species to become expressed. ...n whether by Homo sapiens or some other sentient beings on other planets. Democracy is an evolving institution; it must evolve and adapt to the changing needs
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• 2008-06-02-Natural Law
  ...d very little direct experience or knowledge. In fact, the slow growth of democracy in the human race has depended upon the conscious breaking down this tribal ...daring to discover, and it is the basis for all true, growing, open-minded democracy within you and without. This is the movement of living spirit in your soul
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• Entering the Era of Deep Politics
  ...sciousness;" it will require the tactics and strategies sufficient for the direct-action, nonviolent resolution of the struggle for political power that is t ...ding are centers of private greed. These centers care nothing for "liberal democracy," but pay others to pretend to celebrate its glories.
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• Humanities
  ...e humanities in more [[egalitarianism|egalitarian]] terms suitable for a [[democracy|democratic]] society. Walling, Donovan R.; ''Under Construction: The Role o ...to 6% of the public at large had a university degree, and having one was a direct path to a professional life.
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• 2011-11-25-Conversations with Monjoronson 34
  ...d “south.” Now, my friend, this is the rudiment of a compass, but will it direct you to a destination if you go out to sea? ...ur own, which involves the medical paradigm. You see, the old paradigm of democracy is passing for this nation and other nations in similar technologically dev
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• The Revolution of Everyday Life/ Chapter 8
  ...n only produces new chains; until the will for human liberation launches a direct attack upon the whole collection of paralyzing mechanisms, that is on the s ...to regulate the modes of existence of the robot-citizens of the cybernetic democracy, sacrifice will cease to exist. Objects need no justification to make them
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• 2019-08-26-New Era Transition 71
  ...urch, economy, government, military and the democratic process and so on. Democracy is not a social institution, it is the title; it is the name given for a pr ...tocrat in Russia have been unabated in its efforts to subvert the American Democracy, and this will continue. The lessons of history of the pre and post WWII e
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• Power (sociology)
  One can sometimes distinguish ''primary power'': the direct and personal use of force for [[coercion]]; and ''secondary power'', which *Delegated [[authority]] (for example in the [[democracy|democratic]] process)
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• 2019-09-23-New Era Transition 73
  ...an abundance of events happening for myself and many others and we are in direct work with the Most Highs at this time on Urantia. I will truncate this ses ...condarily it is justice—justice that is able to embrace the best tenets of democracy based on the 7 values, ethics and morality of humanity.
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• 2014-07-18-New Era Conversations 26
  *Importance of meditation to receive direct guidance ...l soon learn in this series, it is concomitantly required that democracies—democracy as a social institution — evolve, and that it go through an evolutionary
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• Social Sciences
  ...heory of [[direct democracy]], apolitical governance, participatory direct democracy, national systems, cross-national political analysis, political development
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• Media
  ...Some consider the concentration of media ownership to be a grave threat to democracy. ...nufacture or services they provide to potential customers to support their direct sales efforts. Typically, they support sales in the short and long term, e
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• 2015-03-02-New Era Conversations 41
  ...ive change will take place to improve that nation’s social existence. Its democracy is also young enough and plastic enough to be molded into a sustainable dem ...king begin to take responsibility for what they think, and that they would direct the power of their thought towards positive living and positive thoughts an
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