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1998
Abstract Muhammad Khalaf-Allah (Egypt, 1916-1997) first gained notoriety in the early 1950s for his literary analysis of the Qur’an. The purpose of the Qur’an, he argued, was not to record historical facts but to exhort listeners to Islam.
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Abstract Muhammad Khalaf-Allah (Egypt, 1916-1997) first gained notoriety in the early 1950s for his literary analysis of the Qur’an. The purpose of the Qur’an, he argued, was not to record historical facts but to exhort listeners to Islam.
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The USSR's basic legislation: Legislative authority of the Baltic Republics
Journal of Baltic Studies, 1988Until the 1977 Constitution, Soviet legislation was formally divided into the Union's basic legislation (< osnovy zakonodatel'stva SSR i soiuznych res publik) and the implementing legislation of the Union Republics in the form of Codes ( zakon soiuznoj respubliki ). Essentially, Soviet legislation is still based on this technique.
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LEGISLATIVE SUPREMACY AND LEGISLATIVE INTENTION: INTERPRETATION, MEANING, AND AUTHORITY
The Cambridge Law Journal, 2004[A]cts of parliament that are impossible to be performed are of no validity: and if there arise out of them collaterally any absurd consequences, manifestly contradictory to common reason, they are, with regard to those collateral consequences, void. … [W]here some collateral matter arises out of the general words, and happens to be unreasonable; there
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Symbolic Legislation and Authority
2016Is symbolic legislation a sign of political crisis? Does it undermine authority? The following argument of this chapter, which examines the relationship between symbolic legislation and authority, claims that things are more complicated than the common view suggests.
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Proposed “Valley Authority” Legislation
American Political Science Review, 1946Ten bills proposing the establishment of “valley authorities” comparable in some degree to the Tennessee Valley Authority are now before the Seventy-ninth Congress, and it is likely that others of the sort will be introduced in this Congress or later ones.
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The Influence of Legislative Oversight on Discretionary Authority
The American Review of Public Administration, 1999Theories suggest that administrators may use their discretion to advance their agency’s version of the public interest, court political support, or both. The author hypothesizes that administrators courting political support use their discretion to reward legislators who monitor their programs more closely than do other legislators. The author measures
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Government: Executive, Legislative and Judicial Authorities
2008The scholarly literature on the impact of Europe on the executive, legislative and judicial authorities of the Member States is particularly widespread. Increasing attention has been placed on the impact of the EU on national administrations and structures of Member States (Lequesne, 1993; Jeffery, 1996; Meny et al., 1996; Wessels & Rometsch, 1996 ...
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Compilation of State Airport Authorizing Legislation
2012The purpose of this digest is to present information that has been compiled, reviewed, and summarized pertaining to each state’s airport-specific legislation, including laws establishing, developing, operating, expanding, and funding airports. The compilation focuses on legislation expressly applicable to public airports rather than legislation ...
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