Legal History of Direct Democracy Institutions in the USA
Direct democracy appeared in the United States back in the colonial period. However, when the country became sovereign in the late XVIII century, the founding fathers gave preference to representative democracy in order to prevent the mob rule.
Stanislav V. Chechelev
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Ecstatic or Mystical Experience through Epilepsy. [PDF]
Picard F.
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The culture of justice: reflections on punishment in Dostoevsky's The Idiot [PDF]
The article investigates Dostoevsky's juridical discourse and demonstrates that the apologist of the Russian soul had a genuinely European mind. In his novel The Idiot in particular, in which the death penalty and imprisonment are explored, Dostoevsky ...
Zink, Andrea
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Methodological approach to assessment of organizational resources of the productive activity
The purpose of this article is to solve the problem connected with development of theoretical and methodological provisions of formation of the assessment procedure of organizational resources of the productive activity.
Alexander Miller
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The Influence of Argon Cluster Ion Bombardment on the Characteristics of AlN Films on Glass-Ceramics and Si Substrates. [PDF]
Nikolaev IV +7 more
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On the contribution of adaptation to originality in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus and the history of art [PDF]
This article assesses the manner in which the gesture of adaptation affects notions of originality. Through its fluctuations, the adaptive process can generate divergent thinking about the question of originality.
Debono, Mark J.
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Regulating Gambling Use through the Overton Window: From an Addictive Behavior to a Social and Epidemiological Problem. [PDF]
Molina-Fernández AJ +5 more
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Heterochronic Representations of the Fall : Bakhtin, Milton, DeLillo [PDF]
Bakhtin argues that each literary genre codifies a particular world-view which is defined, in part, by its chronotope. That is, the spatial and temporal configurations of each genre determine in large part the kinds of action a fictional character may ...
Falconer, Rachel
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Quantitative methods for group bibliotherapy research: a pilot study. [PDF]
Troscianko ET, Holman E, Carney J.
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Diagnosing Prince Myshkin [PDF]
The article presents literary criticism of the book \u22The Idiot\u22 by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It focuses on the medical history of the character Prince Myshkin.
Johnson, Brian R.
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