Word: belief
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Chun's role. There was no consultation with the President before I made this decision. But when I was considering this proposal, I had a firm belief that President Chun Doo Hwan would respond positively to my proposal. However, this process of decision was a very lonely...
...Jung. In my view the unhappy past should be forgotten, and the memories of it should be eradicated. When I made my proposal for democratic development, I did it in the belief that by doing so all Korean people could find harmony in these principles. I do not have any personal feeling of animosity toward Kim or anyone, and I would like to have him be part of this reconciliation...
...belief that students should be entirely locked out of the decision making process because of their inability to evaluate individual cases is reminiscent of North's belief that it was fine to hide covert foreign policy maneuvers even from Congress. But unlike Harvard professors deciding tenure, even North has to report to somebody--namely the Congress...
...famously lucky. Its primal luck was geography and timing: a wild natural abundance that was encountered by gifted men and women in the clear rational blue of the Enlightenment. The Constitution was drafted in a moment of ascendant science -- political science preached by Locke and Montesquieu, for example -- and belief in the power of reason to subdue the savage and ignorant regions of the mind...
...trouble with that original body of laws, as Henry May concluded in his study The Enlightenment in America, was that it reflected "all the virtues of the Moderate Enlightenment, and also one of its faults: the belief that everything can be settled by compromise." In other words, the basic Constitution was too balanced, and thus logically flawed: What moderate compromises are available when a nation seeks to retain the institution of slavery? The answer to the Constitution's excessive symmetry was the Bill of Rights, which did not overturn the basic document but represented a risky extension into the realms...