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Veto of H.R. 7584. Message from the President of the United States Vetoing H.R. 7584, an Act Making Appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1981, and for Other Purposes. December 13, 1980. -- Message and Accompanying Act Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and Ordered to be Printed
Veto of H.R. 7584. Message from the President of the United States Vetoing H.R. 7584, an Act Making Appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 1981, and for Other Purposes. December 13, 1980. -- Message and Accompanying Act Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and Ordered to be Printed
New Zealand Yearbook
Author: New Zealand. Statistics New Zealand
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
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Commission Studies
Author: United States. National Commission for the Review of Federal and State Laws Relating to Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance
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Category : Eavesdropping
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Category : Eavesdropping
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Minnesota Legislative Manual
The Economic and Budget Outlook
Author: United States. Congressional Budget Office
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Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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The Report of the Dawes Committee
Author: Benjamin McAlester Anderson
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Freedom Not Far Distant
Author: Clement Alexander Price
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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States Without Nations
Author: Jacqueline Stevens
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231148771
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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As citizens, we hold certain truths to be self-evident: that the rights to own land, marry, inherit property, and especially to assume birthright citizenship should be guaranteed by the state. The laws promoting these rights appear not only to preserve our liberty but to guarantee society remains just. Yet considering how much violence and inequality results from these legal mandates, Jacqueline Stevens asks whether we might be making the wrong assumptions. Would a world without such laws be more just? Arguing that the core laws of the nation-state are more about a fear of death than a desire for freedom, Jacqueline Stevens imagines a world in which birthright citizenship, family inheritance, state-sanctioned marriage, and private land ownership are eliminated. Would chaos be the result? Drawing on political theory and history and incorporating contemporary social and economic data, she brilliantly critiques our sentimental attachments to birthright citizenship, inheritance, and marriage and highlights their harmful outcomes, including war, global apartheid, destitution, family misery, and environmental damage. It might be hard to imagine countries without the rules of membership and ownership that have come to define them, but as Stevens shows, conjuring new ways of reconciling our laws with the condition of mortality reveals the flaws of our present institutions and inspires hope for moving beyond them.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231148771
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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As citizens, we hold certain truths to be self-evident: that the rights to own land, marry, inherit property, and especially to assume birthright citizenship should be guaranteed by the state. The laws promoting these rights appear not only to preserve our liberty but to guarantee society remains just. Yet considering how much violence and inequality results from these legal mandates, Jacqueline Stevens asks whether we might be making the wrong assumptions. Would a world without such laws be more just? Arguing that the core laws of the nation-state are more about a fear of death than a desire for freedom, Jacqueline Stevens imagines a world in which birthright citizenship, family inheritance, state-sanctioned marriage, and private land ownership are eliminated. Would chaos be the result? Drawing on political theory and history and incorporating contemporary social and economic data, she brilliantly critiques our sentimental attachments to birthright citizenship, inheritance, and marriage and highlights their harmful outcomes, including war, global apartheid, destitution, family misery, and environmental damage. It might be hard to imagine countries without the rules of membership and ownership that have come to define them, but as Stevens shows, conjuring new ways of reconciling our laws with the condition of mortality reveals the flaws of our present institutions and inspires hope for moving beyond them.
The Phantom Public
Author: Walter Lippmann
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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