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Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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The Postal Record
The Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Author: John WymondPublisher:
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Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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North Carolina Civil Procedure
Author: G. Gray WilsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781522199335
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages :
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The President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs
Author: Jefferson PowellPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Debate over who has the authority to make foreign policy for the United States has been a constant feature of our political and constitutional history. In the modern era, the debate has come to be both shrill and stale: the proponents of presidential autonomy and the advocates of congressional supremacy start from mutually incompatible premises and come to predictable, and antagonistic, conclusions. The President's Authority Over Foreign Affairs argues that the best interpretation of our Constitution's distribution of foreign affairs authority resolves this irresolvable stand-off. Powell presents a traditional legal argument, giving careful weight to original understandings, early practice and considerations of institutional structure, and concludes that the Constitution vests the president with the clear authority to formulate and implement foreign policy. At the same time, the Constitution vests Congress with powers that enable it to exercise a near-absolute veto -- not on the president's foreign policy choices, but on his or her ability to carry those choices out. The resulting system of interlocking constitutional powers is faithful to the Constitution's text and to the purposes that are embodied in it. In making this argument, a variety of hotly contested issues are addressed, and Powell shows how constitutional interpretation enables us to reach satisfactory answers.
Fixing Columbine
Author: Doriane Lambelet ColemanPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Fixing Columbine uses the 1999 school shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, as a metaphor for the much larger, and largely silent, epidemic of childhood dysfunction that has swept the nation in the last thirty years, claiming as its victims approximately 15 to 25 million American children annually. Using both a child development lens and comparative analysis, the book first describes the causes of the epidemic which include--for the affected children--absent adults, toxic media exposures, dysfunctional peers, and an anti-social educational environment. It then tackles the question how to fix it. The book argues that classical liberal principles as represented in the constitutional doctrines of parental autonomy and free speech simultaneously enabled the epidemic and impede the most obvious law-based solutions. It concludes with a partial answer in the public schools as they perform their original and still-salient communitarian function.
The J Factor
Author: Stephen KanarPublisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553580792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The business of medicine has taken a deadly turn.... What is your J Factor? In the not so distant future, big business and big medicine have a new definition of managed care. It's called the Justification Factor system and it decides who lives and who dies. It is the ultimate tally of your every action. When the good become ill, they get the best treatment that medicine has to offer. When the bad become ill, they're left to die. Dr. David West, an idealistic young surgeon, believes in the Hippocratic oath but finds his optimism in conflict with the new medical regime dominated by the International Organ Replacement Corporation, a company whose "products" are transplantable organs and whose "customers" receive those organs only if their J Factor is high enough--a company so powerful that world governments bend to its wishes. When Dr. West accidentally violates the policies of the IORC, he and Janette Compton, a passionate young attorney, discover just how far the IORC will go to protect its secrets--and its profits. Stephen Kanar shows you the future of medicine in this imaginative, heart-pounding thriller. And in this future, the cure can kill you. The J Factor. Is it worth keeping you alive?
Letter from the Assistant Clerk of the Court of Claims, Transmitting a Copy of the Findings Filed by the Court in the Case of John W. Hall and James P. Hall Against the United States
Author: Legal Canons
Author: Jack M. BalkinPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814798578
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Every discipline has its canon: the set of standard texts, approaches, examples, and stories by which it is recognized and which its members repeatedly invoke and employ. Although the last twenty-five years have seen the influence of interdisciplinary approaches to legal studies expand, there has been little recent consideration of what is and what ought to be canonical in the study of law today. Legal Canons brings together fifteen essays which seek to map out the legal canon and the way in which law is taught today. In order to understand how the twin ideas of canons and canonicity operate in law, each essay focuses on a particular aspect, from contracts and constitutional law to questions of race and gender. The ascendance of law and economics, feminism, critical race theory, and gay legal studies, as well as the increasing influence of both rational-actor methodology and postmodernism, are all scrutinized by the leading scholars in the field. A timely and comprehensive volume, Legal Canons articulates the need for, and means to, opening the debate on canonicity in legal studies. Table of Contents
Cabanocey
Author: Lillian C. BourgeoisPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455601707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Louisiana has sixty-four parishes, and many of them are as individual and different as the state itself is different from others in the Union. St. James Parish, a small parish of 249 square miles, is not only one of the oldest settlements in the state, but it is different in its population make-up and is important historically. Cabanocey . . . is a splendid history of the Parish of St. James. . . . Lillian C. Bourgeois captured the spirit that animates the population, which is descended from French, Spanish, Acadian, German, and Creole peoples. Bourgeois writes of the population's customs, beliefs, language differences, and folklore. Cabanocey is not a collection of dry facts and dates; rather, it vividly describes how, more than one hundred years ago, the people of St. James Parish lived, who they were, and what they contributed to their parish and their state. Before the Civil War, St. James Parish was the educational center of Louisiana, and Jefferson College was the first important college in the state. Founded in 1830, it had fine buildings, a well-equipped laboratory, and an impressive library. The Convent of the Sacred Heart (1835) for girls was well-known by prominent families in Louisiana, Mexico, and Central America, who sent their daughters there. Cabanocey contains St. James genealogies and thousands of names of early settlers, including the soldiers, taxpayers, officials, prominent families, and the first settlers and their children. From the early censuses and church and court records, descent is traced for many names. The censuses of 1766, 1769, and 1777 are complete and were obtained from the archives in Seville, Spain.
The Outlook for Peace
Author: Robert Walton MoorePublisher:
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Category : Peace
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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