principle

For all of its high principle, there is a dark side to this statement.

Congress’ positions on procedural issues, such as raising the debt ceiling or eliminating the filibuster, also increasingly depend not on bedrock principles but on who occupies the White House.

What progressive champions of blind auditions didn’t notice until recently is that the practice, sound or not, is rooted in the principle that merit trumps identity.

"It reaffirms a fundamental principle: no administration can use hunger as a political weapon."

Another vote repealed the existing taxes and established the principle that only the people’s formal consent would make such laws legitimate.