Laïcité

He was in favour of the income tax, supported workers' rights and Laïcité.

The ideology of the party was Kemalism with strong emphasis on Laïcité.

In the France's constitution, there is a clause named Laïcité which denotes the separation of church and state.

(See also separation of church and state and Laïcité.)

'Laïcité' is thus distinct from anti-clericalism, which actively opposes the influence of religion and the clergy.

Other countries, following in the French model, have forms of Laïcité - examples include Mexico and Turkey.

It is typically justified as a measure to ensure the secularism and religious neutrality of the state - the principle of Laïcité.

La Laïcité à l'épreuve.

As part of the debate on 'laïcité' in French schools, Soral claimed to prefer the Muslim veil to thong underwear.

As of 1962, Trudel was also president of the For Laïcité Movement in Quebec City.

The schism widened in 1877 when the GODF changed its constitutions to allow for complete religious "Laïcité."

On the other hand, Laïcité also could be used to prohibit the display and practice of religion in schools, making daily prayer and the Hijab constitutionally unacceptable.

This was in defense of French 'laïcité' (separation of church and state) which aims to maintain citizens' equality through the prohibition of religious proselytism within the school system.

The principles, but not necessarily practices, of separation of church and state in the United States and Laïcité in France draw heavily on secularism.

Part of the Holy See's solution involving the French Republic was the attempt to reconcile French Catholics with their nation's republican government via Laïcité.

The Grand Orient advanced the concept of Laïcité, a French concept of the separation of church and state and the absence of religious interference in government affairs.

Secularism in Turkey originates from Atatürk's 'Six Arrows' of Republicanism, Populism, Laïcité, Revolutionism, Nationalism, and Statism.

Modern Turkey was founded by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk as secular (Laiklik, Turkish adaptation of French Laïcité), i.e. without a state religion, or separate ethnic divisions/ identities.

Lumières, Religions, Laïcité (under the direction of Louis Châtellier, Claude Langlois and Jean-Paul Willaime), Paris, Riveneuve éditions, 2009.

Recognised religions and Laïcité enjoy public funding and school courses: every pupil in an official school from 6 years old to 18 must choose 2 hours per week of compulsory religion-or Laïcité-inspired morals.

The French controversy primarily relates to the Islamic veil as a symbol of religion that challenges Laïcité, or of female subservience, and only secondarily to practical factors such as face-to-face communication, or security risks.

He made a mark in Argentine politics with his strong opposition to Laïcité, which characterized the Generation of '80 that governed the country in the second half of the 19th century and the beginnings of the 20th.

Dictionaries ordinarily translate 'laïcité' as 'secularity' or 'secularism' (the latter being the political system)'Collins Robert French Dictionary Unabridged', Harper Collins publishers, although it is sometimes rendered in English as "laicity" or "laicism".

In his opus 'Democracy in America', Alexis de Tocqueville notes the synergy between religion and democracy in the United States, and decries what he sees as the excesses of 'laïcité' and anti-clericalism among French democrats.

The Young Radicals of the Left wishes to apply the concept of Laïcité over the whole territory of France (nowaday, in Alsace and Moselle, secularism between the Church and the State is still not implemented).