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British Journal of General Practice, 2012 The Supreme Court decision to uphold the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have predictable political consequences and undoubtedly waste a lot of time and money that should be spent making the ACA work as Republicans seek to attack it and the Administration defends it.
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Foreword: The Perpetual Controversy [PDF]
, 2008 [Excerpt] “Two qualities of American capital punishment perhaps explain its ability to command the attention of the Court, year by year, decade after decade. First, an exceptionally talented and dedicated specialist capital defense bar continually mounts
Johnson, Christopher M.
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
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THE EDUCATION JUSTICE: THE HONORABLE LEWIS FRANKLIN POWELL, JR. [PDF]
, 2001 The Honorable Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. is “the education Justice” of the United States. During his tenure on the U.S. Supreme Court, from 1971 to 1987, Justice Powell authored at least twenty major opinions in education law, in addition to numerous ...
Dodd, Victoria J.
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Two Problems for the Political Inclusion of Animals
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, the field of animal ethics has taken a political turn, with scholars arguing that sentient nonhuman animals should be included in the political sphere. This article explores two key challenges arising from this turn towards the political inclusion of animals: the Conflict Problem and the Numbers Problem.
David Paaske, Angela K. Martin
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From Evaluation to Improvement: A Chief Justice’s Perspective
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2014 At the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, concepts of judicial performance and evaluation are relatively new. Responding to modern expectations for increased judicial accountability for their performance, Victorian judges have engaged a number of ...
Marilyn Warren
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CORRUPTION COUNTERACTION UNDER THE MODERN CONDITIONS
Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2011 The article raises the question of necessity to intensify corruption counteraction in our country; reveals the flagrant violations of law and official powers by certain staff members of law enforcement agencies and federal execution service; presents the
V. N. Martyshkin
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Timbs v. Indiana: The Constitutionality of Civil Forfeiture When Used by States [PDF]
, 2019 In Timbs v. Indiana, Petitioner Tyson Timbs asks the Supreme Court to incorporate the Excessive Fines Clause of the Eighth Amendment against the states, providing extra protection for individuals against fines and forfeiture that are “grossly ...
Fernandez, Kris
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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Protection against pollution of marine and coastal waters
Lexambiente, 2019 The paper is an overview of the main laws on the protection of the sea. It analyses, with references to doctrine and jurisprudence, both the laws directly designed to preserve the integrity of the marine environment, and those that ensure its indirect ...
Luca Ramacci
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