ABSTRACT This article provides the first extensive investigation of President Gerald Ford's commemoration of the 1976 United States Bicentennial. Drawing on internal correspondence and Ford's public addresses, it highlights how his administration leveraged Bicentennial commemorations to situate Ford's Presidency as a reconciling and stabilizing force ...
Thomas Cryer
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Defference to The Executive in The United States after September 11 [PDF]
The deference thesis is that Congress and the judiciary should defer to the executive’s policy judgments during national emergencies. Criticism of the deference theory draws on the analogy of the emergency room medical protocol to argue that emergencies ...
Eric A. Posner
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Does the Threat of Killing Gays Deter Foreign Aid: The Case of Uganda's 2014 Anti‐Homosexuality Act
ABSTRACT Much attention has been drawn on Uganda in recent years due to the strengthening of its anti‐LGBTQ legislation and rhetoric. Our study explores the aid‐deterring effect of anti‐LGBTQ legislation in an experimental setting using the Synthetic Control Method.
Elissaios Papyrakis, Luca Tasciotti
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The beginning of 2020 marked an unexpected turn for the world, the global pandemic of COVID-19 has affected every aspect of life. It has also created an unprecedented opportunity for governments to justify the expansion of their surveillance and ...
Clarisa Long
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Safeguarding Merit: Citizen Support for Civil Service Protections Against Political Interference
ABSTRACT President Trump altered the U.S. federal civil service system by reducing merit‐based protections for bureaucratic expertise and expanding the scope of political appointments, shifting the balance long established under the Pendleton Act of 1883. Similar reforms have occurred at the state level with moves to at‐will employment.
Colt Jensen, Jaclyn Piatak
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Makes Third Visit to Georgia Law since 2003 [PDF]
In October 2006, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spent three days at Georgia Law, where he lectured in constitutional law and education law classes, met with various student groups, held a question and answer session with the student body and ...
Communications and Public Relations, Office of
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Juridification of Politics – Contradictory Results of the Justice Sector Reforms in Georgia [PDF]
The interrelation between the law and politics permeates contemporary discussions of constitutional and statehood issues. Law and legal formalism have penetrated many areas, which were traditionally considered political, which has created a trend of ...
Sopho Verdzeuli
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Carlson\u27s book cited by Georgia Court of Appeals [PDF]
Callaway Chair of Law Emeritus Ronald L. Carlson\u27s book Carlson on Evidence (with M. Carlson) was cited by the Georgia Court of Appeals regarding the right to cross-examine a witness about the bias of the witness being a constitutional right in the ...
Office of Communications and Public Relations
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The Political Role of the Supreme Court of the United States under the Separation of Powers and its Model of Checks and Balances [PDF]
The role of the judicial branch in the US checks and balances model of the separation of powers has never been univocal; An analysis of the epochs reveals that this branch of government has come together in an interesting and complex way of evolution ...
Iviko Khavtasi
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Permissibility of Holding a Referendum under the Conditions of Occupation of the Territories of Georgia [PDF]
It is acknowledged truth in the sphere of legal hermeneutics, that when interpreting a legal norm, we should not always rely only on grammatical and word-for-word interpretation, and we should also refer to other ways and methods of interpretation ...
George Goradze
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