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, 2017 There are no Reconstruction re-enactors. And who would want to be? Reconstruction is the disappointing epilogue to the American Civil War, a sort of Grimm fairy tale stepchild of the war and the ugly duckling of American history. Even Abraham Lincoln was
Guelzo, Allen C.
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, 2017 Biblical films make use of several different images and related perceptions of kingship that are found throughout both Testaments: 1) king as absolute tyrant, 2) king as disapproved servant of God, 3) king as ideal head of the nation, 4) king as ...
Yang, Sunggu
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Religious and Political Authority in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia [PDF]
, 2017 Alfred Stepan’s “twin-tolerations” thesis (2000) is a model for explaining different ways that religious and political authority come to be reconciled.
Alboaouh, Kamel, Mahoney, Jon
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Islamic republic of Iran and Its Opposition [PDF]
This paper takes a stylized paradoxical fact of Iranian politics under the Islamic Republic of Iran as its starting point: the stark confusion between the position and a good portion of the opposition.
Mehrdad Vahabi, Mohajer Nasser
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, 2010 At the intersection of two sweeping global trends - the rise of popular support for principles of theocratic governance and the spread of constitutionalism and judicial review - a new legal order has emerged: constitutional theocracy. It enshrines religion and its interlocutors as 'a' or 'the' source of legislation, and at the same time adheres to core
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The Jakarta Charter in Post-soeharto Indonesia: Political Thoughts of the Elites in Muhammadiyah [PDF]
, 2015 Sebagai negara muslim terbesar di dunia, sejumlah gerakan Islam di Indonesia meyakini bahwa Piagam Jakarta merupakan jalan terbaik untuk mewujudukan syariat Islam karena nilai sejarah yang mulia dalam piagam tersebut.
Al-Hamdi, R. (Ridho)
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, 2016 Is originalism toothless? Richard Posner seems to think so. He writes that repeated theorizing by intelligent originalists, one of us happily included, has rendered the theory incoherent and capable of supporting almost any result.
Baude, William, Sachs, Stephen E.
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Towards a critique of anti-German 'communism' [PDF]
, 2010 The spectre of anti-Germans has easily become the Feindbild for activists of the Anglophone Left; yet rarely does this translate into fundamental or informed criticism of the anti-German premise. This article, then, offers an introductory description and
Schlembach, Raphael
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Combining autocracy and majority voting: the canonical succession rules of the Latin Church [PDF]
The autocratic turn of the Latin Church in the XI-XIII century, a reaction to the secular power interferences, concentrated the decision-making power in the hands of the top hierarchy, and finally in the hands of the pope.
Giuriato, Luisa
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