democratic state

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A democratic state must never treat any citizen as entirely worthless.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

“Today’s decision by the Federal Constitutional Court sends out a clear signal: Our democratic state does not fund enemies of the Constitution,” Nancy Faeser, Germany’s interior minister, said in a statement.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2024

But it soon also came to represent the vision of a secular democratic state with equality for all.

From Salon • Nov. 17, 2023

"So we need to figure out a way, one, to stay in the same land, two, without killing each other, and three, while maintaining a Jewish democratic state."

From Reuters • Sep. 13, 2023

The European system, based as it was upon royalist legitimacy and privileges, and denying as it did popular political rights, was declared to be inimical in spirit and in effect to the American democratic state.

From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David