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Boom or Bust: Ensuring the Georgia State-wide Business Court Fulfills Its Constitutional Promise
The United States judiciary includes specialized court systems within its baseline civil and criminal justice structure that provide more efficient and expert adjudication in a wide variety of areas.
Naghepour, Roya
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The 1921 Constitution of Georgia: A Symbol of the Independence of Georgia [PDF]
The founders of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921) considered the drafting of the basic law of the country, the Constitution, to be particularly important and saw its adoption as the most significant event after the Declaration of ...
Malkhaz Matsaberidze
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ABSTRACT This paper studies how partisan alignment between city leaders and state governors shapes information processing and bond pricing in the municipal bond market. Using a novel data set on 1,045 U.S. cities from 2005 to 2019, we show that cities with the same political affiliation as the state governor face 9 basis points lower borrowing costs ...
RAMONA DAGOSTINO, ANYA NAKHMURINA
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Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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Permissible Limits of Entrapment in Covert Investigations and Operative-Investigative Measures [PDF]
A parallel can be drawn between the idea of entrapment and the biblical story of Adam and Eve. In the Garden of Eden, Eve was tempted by the serpent, leading her to partake in the forbidden fruit at the urging of another.
Gia Markoidze
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Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
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Applicability of Legal Regulations to High Artificial Intellect – Robots [PDF]
The present paper addresses the necessity of creating legal regulations regarding a technological novelty - robots; it discusses the issues of freedom of religion, freedom of expression and the right to personal development in the context of domestic ...
Mariam Mgeladze, Murman Gorgoshadze
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An ecclesiastical court: Christian nationalism and perceptions of the US Supreme Court
Abstract Recently, scholars have increasingly examined the unique blending of Christian and political ideology known as Christian nationalism. During this period, the US Supreme Court has increasingly ruled in ways that favor Christian nationalism, and Court watchers have criticized several justices for showing bias toward Christianity at best and ...
Miles T. Armaly +3 more
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Self‐reported mental health and the Dobbs decision: Variation by State abortion laws
Abstract When a US Supreme Court ruling allowed states to ban abortion, women of childbearing age in the states where abortion became illegal reported higher rates of anxiety symptoms compared to similar‐aged women in other states and older women in the same states.
J. Michael Collins, Vivekananda Das
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ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
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