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Revival of Thomas Aquinas's thought from 1879 (Leo XIII), with Maritain and Gilson. It grounds politics in natural law, the common good and subsidiarity, favoring mixed government, property with a social function and just war, under Catholic faith.
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I want a political order guided by natural law and the common good, with mixed government and subsidiarity, where faith and reason inspire the laws.
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Our Neo-Thomism model centers on political order guided by natural law and the common good, with mixed government and subsidiarity, where faith and reason inspire the laws. That core does not specify the constitutional allocation of power between territorial units and a center. Administrative centralization, social equality and opposition to the state are different claims from a federal constitution.
Our Neo-Thomism model centers on political order guided by natural law and the common good, with mixed government and subsidiarity, where faith and reason inspire the laws. That core does not specify who can choose, replace and hold political decision-makers accountable. A social or economic objective does not by itself establish elections, popular sovereignty or an unelected ruling elite.
Our Neo-Thomism definition includes “political order guided by natural law and the common good”. Order or hierarchy supplies a security-oriented context, but does not by itself quantify surveillance or repression.
Our Neo-Thomism model centers on political order guided by natural law and the common good, with mixed government and subsidiarity, where faith and reason inspire the laws. That core does not specify minority membership, migration and the coexistence of cultural identities. Shared economic interests or a universal philosophical ethic do not alone specify immigration or cultural-integration policy.
Our Neo-Thomism definition includes “favoring mixed government, property with a social function and just war”. Organized force, military command or acceptance of war bears on militarism; domestic revolt and foreign war are not identical.
Our Neo-Thomism model centers on political order guided by natural law and the common good, with mixed government and subsidiarity, where faith and reason inspire the laws. That core does not specify coercive foreign projection into other peoples or states. This axis concerns foreign intervention, not nationalism, domestic regulation, cultural confidence or military preparedness alone.
Our Neo-Thomism definition includes “favoring mixed government, property with a social function and just war”. Cooperative ownership, use-based possession or common land rent is modeled separately from both blanket state ownership and unrestricted private title.
Our Neo-Thomism model centers on political order guided by natural law and the common good, with mixed government and subsidiarity, where faith and reason inspire the laws. That core does not specify how production and allocation are coordinated through plans or decentralized exchange. Public ownership can coexist with markets, and private firms can operate under directed planning.
Our Neo-Thomism model centers on political order guided by natural law and the common good, with mixed government and subsidiarity, where faith and reason inspire the laws. That core does not specify cross-border trade, capital flows and economic integration. Domestic market freedom and international cultural solidarity are different claims from a free-trade policy.
Faith and reason explicitly inspire law in the definition, through natural law, subsidiarity and the common good. That supports religious grounding of public norms while not uniquely establishing a clerical sovereign or one governmental form.
Our Neo-Thomism definition includes “political order guided by natural law and the common good”. The described pace and purpose of social change supplies a mixed moral context; social justice is not synonymous with cultural progressivism.
Our Neo-Thomism definition includes “mixed government and subsidiarity, where faith and reason inspire the laws”. Development or rational organization supplies indirect technological context; acceptance of transformative technology remains a modeled choice.
Leans further toward religious governance than 90% of the 250 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Religion in governance is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Diplomacy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
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