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. This line of cases thus attempts one of the most challenging feats of modern political philosophy: squaring popular sovereignty with natural rights, and particularly the right to use violence in self ... Bruen (2022), relies on an implicit political theory. This article uncovers and critiques that theory. I argue that the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment jurisprudence positions interpersonal self-defense
leaders who promise to cut through the dysfunctions of democratic governments. A major reason for this decline in effective government is that democracies have become more politically fragmented. Political ... Levinson, and participants in the NYU Legal and Political Philosophy Colloquium, particularly Liam Murphy and Sam Scheffler. For terrific research assistance, thanks go to NYU students Will Goncher, Pieter
Digital Commons. For more information , please contact Part of the Criminal Law Commons; Criminology and Criminal Justice Commons; and the Law - Criminals Behind the Veil: Political Philosophy and ... wrong, and how to fix it. And the way to begin a comprehensive diagnosis is to turn to political philosophy and its relative neglect of problems of criminal law and criminal punishment. Political theory
government politics, and they must take care to ensure that their rhetoric and other actions do not ruin the perception of political impartiality that the founding Congress sought to create. By reclaiming ... As part of that federal response, the FTC was born. Congress sought to establish an agency that would be “free from ‘political domination or control’ or the ‘probability or possibility of such a thing
investigate and make recommendations regarding reform in the socio-economic and political spheres, which were undermining apartheid ideology of racial segregation. Comprising five committees with delegates ... was now recognised as racial discrimination. This Act was a product of 'the ideological-political philosophy of the Government' during the early years of apartheid.66 As such, the Planning Committee
apartheid, the focus tends to emphasise what has been called political or social movement unionism. However, one labour centre, the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU), pursuing a workerist ... , created and extended tentacles of democracy during apartheid, outside the ambit and influence of political parties and the nationalist movement. FOSATU also created global networks and outreach in search of
- Volume 37 ARTICLES 2023 Race, Ethnicity, and Fair Housing Enforcement: A Regional Analysis Charles S. Bullock, III; Charles M. Lamb; & Eric M. Wilk Political Fragmentation in the Democracies of the ... Political Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14260 or . ** Charles S. Bullock, III is Distinguished University Professor of Public and International Affairs, Richard B. Russell Chair in
This article will propose and explain a draft amendment to the United States Constitution that would secure an intermediate degree of political representation for Americans living in U.S. territories ... alternate dimension of constitutionality. Some of the structure of this alternate reality comes from the U.S. Constitution itself— its allocation of political representation in Congress and the electoral
, 1992, pp 1-14; G Sartori, "The Sociology of Parties A Critical Review", Committee on Political Sociology of the International Sociological Association, Party Systems, Party Organizations, and the ... Memorial Trust The Political Economy of Social Change in South Africa University of the Western Cape, 1-2 April 1997; S Trapido, "Political Institutions and Afrikaner Social Structures in the Republic of
radical in their political outlook. He traces the rise and decline of the young student left from the end of Belgian colonialism in the 1950s until Joseph Mobutu's increased authoritarian rule at the ... authoritarian rule at the beginning of the 1970s. This period in Congolese history was defined by significant political turmoil and great youthful energy. While university students formed a small social group in
millet - offered a panacea to looming starvation and civil unrest. Yet, as we argue in this article, its access became rooted increasingly within political contestations between the ruling ZANU PF ... citizens. Using the story of small grains -sorghum and millet - between 2000 and 2010, we trace how food (in)security took a political form, stirring a pot of sometimes violent clashes between political and
The organisation, Christian Care, was formed during Zimbabwe's liberation war in 1967 to disburse emergency aid to victims of the war and political repression. From 1967 to about 1990, it provided ... Christian Care, I argue, provided assistance to victims of political repression and marginalisation in the context of the liberation war and post-war Gukurahundi2massacres as well as victims of natural
leadership position in the National Party was strengthened. The debates provided an early stepping-stone in his political career, that launched him on his way to becoming Minister of Justice, prime minister ... sabotage in protest against the Smuts government's war policy, but was nevertheless arrested and interned at Koffiefontein for fourteen months.5 Vorster's political opponents later alleged that his
editor of BYU Law Digital Commons. For more information , please contact Unmistakable Political Question Controversy, 34 BYU J. Pub. L. 75 (2019). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.byu.edu/jpl ... be addressed is whether partisan gerrymandering is a political question not capable of judicial resolution by federal courts, or whether partisan gerrymandering is instead a politicized issue that
government of General J.C. Smuts lacked broad-based support and contested opposition which was shaped by Nazi influences. Latent South African socio-political friction surfaced, and anti-war violence ensued ... policy. The article focuses on subversive Nazi efforts within South Africa before and during the war, and on the impact of these on internal political divisions. These are significant because they formed
of a narrow class of political activities. The note finds that few, if any, of these provisions would benefit Kaepernick based on their usual applications. The note proposes several solutions ... , NFL players, and elected officials.4 In a time when speech and political views face a constant threat of being suppressed, it is important to provide increased protections when private employees, like
Zach de Beer's political career began in 1950 when as a student leader and a member of the Civil Rights League he addressed a public meeting in the Cape Town City Hall to protest the banning of the ... parliamentary seat in the 1961 general election and led to years in the political wilderness. Outside of parliament, as a prominent figure in the financial world, he continued to encourage constitutional and
the police killing of George Floyd and others and a strong backlash against protestors by some political leaders, has deeply challenged the compatibility of those values. This tension raises deep ... the two positions. While the concept of the rule of law may not necessarily incorporate the entire spectrum of civil and political rights, the very logic of the rule of law demands respect for and
Oswald Pirow's established place in South African historiography is that of a confirmed fascist, but in reality he was an opportunist. Raw ambition was the underlying motive for every political ... action he took and he had a ruthless ability to adjust his sails to prevailing political winds. He hitched his ambitions to the political momentum of influential persons such as Tielman Roos and J.B.M
In this Essay, I offer the musings of one whose own work is of political economy and an area of political economy far removed from the issues typically raised by takings. ... the political economy of international monetary and financial relations. 2. For a useful if somewhat dated treatment of this topic, see U.K. NATIONAL COMMISSION OF COMPARATIVE LAW, COMPENSATION FOR
