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The Role of the Ethical Underpinnings of International Humanitarian Law in the Age of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Political Science Yearbook, 2019
This paper presents selected conclusions related to the theoretical underpinnings of international humanitarian law, with special focus on the understanding of considerations of humanity and the dictates of public conscience (the Martens clause) and ...
Kaja Kowalczewska
doaj   +1 more source

The history and effect of abortion conscience clause laws [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Conscience clause laws allow medical providers to refuse to provide services to which they have religious or moral objections. In some cases, these laws are designed to excuse such providers from performing abortions. During the 108th Congress, S.
Feder, Jody
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

The Challenge of Co-Religionist Commerce [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This Article addresses the rise of co-religionist commerce in the United States—that is, the explosion of commercial dealings that take place between co-religionists who intend their transactions to achieve both commercial and religious objectives.
Fleetwood, Filippa   +6 more
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Sumienie jako pojęcie prawne w kontekście sporu o klauzulę sumienia

open access: yesStudia z Zakresu Prawa Pracy i Polityki Społecznej
The phraseologisms in legal language, legal writing and social life: freedom of conscience, civil disobedience, conscientious objection and conscience clause cannot be treated as synonyms.
Marcin Mielczarek
doaj   +1 more source

‘Pro‐Germans in the Pulpits’: The Queensland Presbyterian Church and the Great War

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
During World War I, Protestant churches in Australia, on the whole, enthusiastically supported the war effort. The Queensland Presbyterian Church was a significant exception. This study analyses discord and tensions among its clergymen about what constituted an appropriate response to the war.
Mark Cryle
wiley   +1 more source

Problemas y contradicciones de la regulación de la cláusula de conciencia periodística // Problems and contradictions of the journalists’ conscience clause regulation

open access: yesRevista de Derecho Político, 2015
Resumen El objeto de este trabajo es realizar un análisis crítico de la actual regulación de la cláusula de conciencia de los profesionales de la información, evidenciando sus carencias prácticas y contradicciones, cosa que hasta el momento la doctrina ...
Daniel Capodiferro Cubero
doaj   +1 more source

Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

Time to Bury the Shocks the Conscience Test [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Supreme Court has acknowledged that the Due Process Clause, like its forebear in the Magna Carta, was \u27intended to secure the individual from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government\u27...to prevent governmental power from being ...
Berger Levinson, Rosalie
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Defending biomedical authority and regulating the womb as social space. Prenatal testing in the Polish press [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The issue of abortion has been the topic of heated and frequent debate in post-Communist Poland. Parliamentary debate in 1998—9 centred around a legislative attempt to restrict prenatal testing, specifically amniocentesis, in order to further reduce the ...
Kramer, Anne-Marie Caroline
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