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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Constitutional State"”.
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The Constitution of Mercy
… have drawn attention to a concept of the modern constitutional state that has largely operated under the radar: mercy. In addition to manifesting itself in the pardon power, mercy can also be found in the practices of judges who sentence defendants leniently. Both executive and judicial mercy …
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The criminalisation of cartel conduct in South Africa and the United Kingdom
… As the criminal law is the ultima ratio of a constitutional state, its introduction into competition law needs some justification. In the context of competition law, criminal law is not designed to punish the offender retrospectively but to deter people from cartel conduct according to the …
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The South African administrative powers of the Commissioner for Inland Revenue, taxpayer's procedural remedies and the impact of the Constitution (Act 200 of 1993) thereon
… of the Constitution thereon. Now that we are a constitutional state, this paper seeks to examine whether our constitution accommodates the vast discretionary powers of the Commissioner' preservation of secrecy, appeals and reviews against Commissioner's decisions. Alternatively, do powers of the …
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The state, hegemony and ideology: reflections on the 1976 student uprisings and the 2015 #feesmustfall movement
Advancing a Gramscian critique of the democratic constitutional state in South Africa, this study argues that the hegemonic continuities from apartheid to democratic South Africa still linger 30 years after democracy. The central thesis of this dissertation is that these two states operate …
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Judicial rhetoric and radical politics: sexuality, race, and the fourteenth amendment
… claim existence as legal subjects in the United States. I combine doctrinal, rhetorical, and queer methods of legal analysis to examine how judicial arguments about due process and equal protection produce different possibilities for the articulation of queer of color identity in, through, and in …
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American Public Administration: A Foundation for Praxis and Praxiology
… since the formal founding of the American State. Discussions regarding how PA theory derives from individual and collective critical reflection on practices (praxiology) and how that knowledge can inform future actions (praxis) virtually have been absent in all organizations. The …
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Politics, media and journalism in Greece
… it played an important role in the creation of a constitutional state. The press during that phase was not simply political, but a political institution of power. Even during the period of political divisions of the Greek political system, press functioned inside these divisions, not only by …
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The liability in delict of judges for wrongs committed in the course of judicial proceedings : an historical analysis of the relative immunity of the South African judiciary
… liability is not an invention of the modem constitutional state, but has deep and ancient roots, the investigation is inevitably and essentially an historical one. The thesis traces the development of such liability in Roman law, in early medieval law, in the ius commune (i.e., the Italian …
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Staging modern statehood: world exhibitions and the rhetoric of publishing in late Qing China, 1851-1910
… of the Qing government to stage its modern statehood through participating in the world exhibitions and hosting the Nanyang Industrial Exposition of 1910, the first national / international exhibition of China, was challenged and transformed by various agents with different views and …
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Public trusteeship and water management: developing the South African concept of public trusteeship to improve management of water resources in the context of South African water law
… and its political antecedents, the modern constitutional state sought to address the issues of access to water resources and sanitation services by introducing section 24 of the Constitution, which provides for the right to an environment that is not harmful to one's health or well-being. …
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Visuomenės interesų apsauga ir žodžio laisvė demokratinėje visuomenėje /
… involved in ad hoc clashes flow from the constitutional state system. However, such a method for balancing and weighing and the application of the principle of proportion are not found in all of Lithuania’s court decisions. Lithuania’s courts do not always use these mechanisms, which are …
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Derecho, desarrollo y extractivismo : la disputa por el oro en Colombia en un contexto de colonialidad global
En esta tesis se examina desde una perspectiva decolonial y desde una aproximación crítica a la noción de desarrollo, el marco legal e institucional vigente de extracción de recursos minerales en Colombia y particularmente de la minería de oro. En primer lugar se analiza cómo el Estado …
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"Der Fall Collini" von Ferdinand von Schirach als Narration für politisch-rechtliches Lernen im Politikunterricht
In den vergangenen Jahren hat sich die Politikdidaktik zunehmend mit dem Einsatz von Narrationen im Politikunterricht beschäftigt, denn neben Sachtexten bietet auch die Belletristik die Möglichkeit, sich mit politischen Themen auseinanderzusetzen. Insbesondere die Literatur von Ferdinand von …