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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Individual liberty"”.
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Individual Liberty and Separation of Powers in the Constitutional Statesmanship of Judge Brett Kavanaugh
… 12 years on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is individual liberty and separation of powers. The scope in terms of time is Judge Kavanaugh’s time on the Circuit Court. Hence, the title’s use of “Judge” instead of “Justice.” The scope in terms of topic is Judge Kavanaugh’s Constitutional thought, …
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Erasmian humanism and the utopias of Thomas More and John Milton
… advocates a collectivist culture which restricts individual liberty; Milton, on the other hand, champions individual liberty and argues that only through freedom true virtue can be attained.
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A Study of Centralization in the Thai Police Department.
Individual liberty is one of the most important goals men seek and sometimes even fight for today. But freedom can be achieved only by those who live in a democratic society. In a totalitarian society, there is no freedom for the individual because the state has total control over man without …
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Civic Dignity and Meaningful Political Participation
… participation opportunities can increase individual liberty and improve public-sector reform efforts. It blends political theory with contemporary concerns for individual well-being and government accountability. To do this, several research methodologies are used, including normative, …
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Bail and the presumption of innocence: a critical analysis of section 60(1-1) of the criminal procedure Act 51 of 1977 as amended
… offence stands to lose dearly in personal liberty, in social life and psychological well-being. The presumption is, therefore, a pivotal element of a culture of democracy and human rights. This study is prompted by the realisation that the presumption of innocence, which ought to constitute …
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Jefferson's Baptists: Evangelical Partisanship in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830
… during their shared fight to secure religious liberty in the infant nation, Baptists increasingly embodied Jeffersonian ideals through ecclesial practices that prioritized individual liberty and opposed any semblance of authoritarianism. However, the same partisan loyalty that aided them in …
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Claude McKay and the transnational novel
… America and France as supposed exemplars of individual liberty highlights the unsuitability of nationalistic prerogatives to an internally diverse black diaspora. Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic construct provides a suggestive space in which to re-imagine the possibilities of affiliation in the …
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Happiness Is a By-Product of Function: William Burroughs and the American Pragmatist Tradition
… and John Stuart Mill. Burroughs is a champion of individual liberty; this chapter shows how Burroughs' works are meant to edify readers about the social, political, biological, and technological systems which work to control individuals and limit their liberties and understandings. The chapter …
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Impact of Culture on Employment Relations Practice in Former British Colonies: A Comparative Case Study of Cadbury (Nigeria) Plc and Cadbury Worldwide.
… This was that of lasisez-faire, with respect for individual liberty based on the Benthamite utilitarian principle (Yesufu, 1982:31; Florence, 1957:184). As there are very few studies (if any) on comparative employment relations practice between the developed countries of the world and the …
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Reading Early Modern English Poetry through the Prisms of Energy and Empire
… inflicts on the environment, human health, and individual liberty. The project begins by probing the philosophical underpinnings of energy usage in early modern England and describing the energy utilization technologies of the age. From there, the work focusses on energy depiction in country …
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The protection of human rights in Africa
… that a state should allow a certain measure of individual liberty- Although the idea of human rights has become accepted in the international community, the observance of human rights varies from place to place. On the attainment of independence most of the African states adopted constitutions …
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The Impasse of Liberal (In)Equality: Materialising Egalitarian Politics Through Collective Fidelity
… models alongside liberal values such as individual liberty, autonomy, human rights, and market exchange. These approaches fall short of reconciling their egalitarian ambitions with the inegalitarian tendencies of market exchange, reducing equality to a question of inequalities in the …
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Bodies as Risky Resources: The Japanese Identification Systems as Surveillance, Population Control and Colonial Violence in Occupied Northeast China
… paid particular attention to identifying individuals and tracking their movements. Most prominently, fingerprinting, the forerunner of biometrics, was employed. Fingerprinted ID cards in occupied China were used for two primary purposes: pre-empting potential rebellion among the local …
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Balancing liberty of contract with police power : a Hobbesian approach.
… exists by negotiating a fine balance between the liberty of the citizen and the authority of the state. Yet, as the years put distance between our founding principles and their execution, we have become forgetful of the symbiosis that unites individual and common goods. Particularly in American …
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A pragmatist context-based assessment of the economic implications of eating patterns in a small sub-Saharan developing economy: Focus on Togo
… from a philosophical position, implications of individual liberty, societal values/norms on diet and economic productivity are also considered. Such approach, targeting a holistic understanding of links between diet and economic status while shifting from generic to specific paradigms and from …
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Centropoly: The Structure of Educational Failures in the U.S.
<p>How did a country birthed in individual liberty and voluntary associations create just the opposite in its inflexible, layered, government-controlled public education system? Here, using public choice theory, I explain how near-sighted and unrelated reforms, often based in private motives, gave …
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Coercion
… of coercion to a reactive relation between two individuals thereby stressing the cause of individual liberty, it is proposed in this thesis that institutions representing the collective will of individuals may also properly be regarded as agents capable of coercing and being coerced. …
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Constructing UK obesity policy: discourse, framing, and politics
… obesity policy in the UK continues to ascribe to individualised approaches to obesity policy and has not utilised resources from social and political theory to investigate this situation of policy stasis. In this thesis, I sought to address this gap in the literature through a qualitative analysis …