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The Big Box Bill of Rights
… converted a sleepy Ozark mountain town into home of the world's largest retailer: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The ascendance of Walmart and similar big box developers during the latter part of the twentieth century instigated a profound transformation of Bentonville's city fabric, one that paralleled a …
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The application of the Bill of Rights
… has been embroiled in racial conflict with human rights as one of the tragic casualties. With the adoption of the lnterim and Final Constitutions a decisive break was made with the past. One of the foundations laid to forge our new society based on equality and human dignity was the adoption of a …
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Legal representation and a Bill of Rights
… has been acknowledged as a fundamental right of an accused in a criminal trial. 1 Traditionally, however, this, right has been viewed as a right to retain counsel, rather than a positive right to be provided with legal representation in the case of indigent accused. The importance of legal …
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Bill of Rights for the Homeless Act : a policy analysis
In Michigan, thousands of individuals experience homelessness each year. The issue of homelessness is multidimensional, consisting of poverty, mental health disorders, and systemic inequalities impacting individuals and their surrounding communities. Michigan H.B. 4919, titled The Bill of Rights …
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The framers, The Bill of Rights, and the Ninth Amendment
The Bill of Rights, The Framers, and the Ninth Amendment is an examination of current arguments for and against expanded recognition of the Ninth Amendment and unenumerated rights by the judiciary. A brief history of the Ninth Amendment is included. Also explored are the debates between the …
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Mr. Diefenbaker, parliamentary democracy, and the Canadian Bill of Rights
The Canadian Bill of Rights was enacted in 1960 as an Act of Parliament of Canada. Many argued then, and since, that it ought to have been legally binding, or entrenched beyond the reach of both Parliament and the provincial legislatures. The Diefenbaker government responded with the argument that …
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Indonesia and the International Bill of Rights: role and implementation
The International Bill of Rights: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, are the very foundation of international human rights law. The paramount and legal …
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The Human Rights Act 1998: A Bill of Rights for Britain?
On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the coming into force of the Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA), this thesis endeavours to explore the extent to which New Labour’s flagship piece of legislation can be considered a Bill of Rights for Britain. It explores the debate surrounding the characteristics of …
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A critical analysis of the impact of the Bill of Rights on punishment in Malawi
Malawi's penal regime has a long history of retributive and deterrent punishment and unfair trials. In the absence of a constitutional set up that recognised human rights and driven by the need to maintain colonial authority, punishment during the colonial period was largely premised on retribution …
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The role of school psychologists regarding the implementation of the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act
… determine the attitudes, roles, and approaches of different school psychologists in relation to the new HIB (Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying) legislation for all New Jersey Public Schools. This study gauged school psychologists' level of involvement in implementing the new legislation and …
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When equality and freedom of contract meet: a consideration of the horizontal application of the Bill of Rights
The application of human rights to private relationships is a difficult question that must be answered by all legal systems which have accepted human rights as binding upon their law. To answer this question a State has to make fundamental ideological decisions, both as to its role in society and …
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Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act (ABBRA) in New Jersey: a case study of the implementation of regulatory policy
<p>The primary purpose of this study was to investigate year two of the implementation of the New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act (ABBRA). The environment of accountability has become increasingly prominent through the ongoing development of regulatory policy in the field of education …
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The constitutional court's use of human dignity in the interpretation of the South African Bill of Rights: selected cases
The Constitutional Court often relies on human dignity in the interpretation of Bill of Rights. Human dignity is a constitutional value enshrined in section 1, section 10, section 36 and section 39 of the Constitution. It is a founding value of the constitution of South Africa. As a foundational …
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The role of school psychologists in bullying interventions in year four of New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act
… education, bullying has been a prominent topic of discussion with regard to its effects on students and schools. In order to investigate the specific role of school psychologists in Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying (HIB) initiatives, this study (a) analyzes the HIB roles of school …
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The Missing Founding Fathers: The Need to Teach the Role of the Antifederalists in the Adoption of the Bill of Rights
… need to place more emphasis on teaching the role of the Antifederalists in the 1787-88 debate over the adoption of the U.S. Constitution to high school history and government students. The cited research shows the Antifederalist role is now underemphasized in high school history textbooks, despite …
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The constitutional development of fundamental rights and the horizontal application of the Bill of Rights under the South African constitution of 1996
Human rights undoubtedly playing an important role in the modem world and they are now recognised in most parts of the world. Many states incorporated these rights into their constitution under the heading of 'Bill of Rights'. Several different definitions, of the term 'human rights' exist but none …
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An Analysis of the Human Rights and Gender consequences of the New South African Constitution and Bill of Rights with regards to the recognition and implementation of Muslim Personal Law
… in South Africa all women had identities of race and gender imposed on them. With a new dispensation in place Muslim women, however, still have to deal with identities attributed to them by religion and culture. The author of this dissertation is herself a Muslim woman who has struggled to …
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