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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Lawlessness"”.
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Empire's Law: A Hartian Critique of the Potential of Fuller's and Radbruch's Theories to Address Legal Colonialism
… law in British Columbia would count as statutory lawlessness. In Chapter 4, I critique Fuller’s and Radbruch’s natural law theories from the perspective of Hart’s positivism, focusing on Hart’s fallibility thesis and his wide, as opposed to narrow, concept of law. Contra Fuller, law’s fallibility …
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A social history of black culture in colonial North Carolina
… (time, space and distance); the law and lawlessness; the lore of race relations; health, spirituality and romance--reflects its effort to focus analysis primarily on aesthetic considerations as opposed to acculturative concerns.
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Surveys
… of the gridded western landscape. The perceived lawlessness and expansiveness of the American west is at odds with the desire to frame and compress. By superimposing a grid onto the images I choose, I act to literally "lay down the law," and confine and delineate the sense of expansiveness. The …
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The Relations of Saint Gregory the Great, while Pope, with the Imperial Exarch of Ravenna (590-604): Based on the Correspondences
… resulted in social insecurity and widespread lawlessness. The power of the Church was weakened. Her priests were slaughtered, buildings destroyed, money and lands confiscated.
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How Could This Happen? A Constructivist Analysis of Reactive State Terrorism at Ruby Ridge
… a beloved pet, and the overt acts of lawlessness and terrorism of three federal law enfocement agencies against United States' citizens. Thus, I introduce the story of Ruby Ridge, Idaho, the Weaver family, and the federal law enforcement agencies that have collectivity become known as …
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The Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923--1926
… order. The Klan exacerbated the problem of lawlessness, instead of solving it, and fixed the sobriquet ""Bloody Williamson,"" instead of removing it. Citizens realized their mistake of depending on a secret vigilante organization to solve their community problems. Repudiated at the polls and …
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Press and Parliament, Liberalism and Colonialism: Italy's 1891 Livraghi Affair and the Waning of the Civilizing Mission
… of colonial security rather than corruption or lawlessness, and the prevailing view rejected civilizing pretensions in Africa, adopting instead an openly illiberal colonial outlook. Journalists were at the center of that change, shaping and disseminating across Italy a vicarious colonial …
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Regulating the republic: violence and order in the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, 1820-1840
… thinking, and a legal system that prevented lawlessness. To create a well-ordered society, Georgia’s leaders believed that authority flowed from white settlers to civil institutions, which benignly administered over the idealized society. In the Cherokee-Georgia borderlands, no single …
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Remaking the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands: The North-West Mounted Police, the United States Army, and the Klondike Gold Rush
… a firm dividing line between perceived American lawlessness and Canadian order as thousands of miners rushed to the Yukon and Alaska from 1896-1899. A wider, regional analysis of the Alaska-Yukon borderlands, however, reveals that at the beginning of the gold rush, the border was little more than …
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Rural womens' agricultural productivity at Nkonjeni Area : capacity building and empowerment
… equal opportunities. It was also found that the lawlessness of the community members contributed enormously on their farming problems because unattended livestock that is owned by their neighbours destroys their produce. Recommendations that emanated from the study focussed on the empowerment of …
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Complexity, Conflict, and Cooperation: The Micropolitics of American Civil-Military Relations in Small Wars, 1945-Present
… foreign governments to fend off "subversion, lawlessness, insurgency, terrorism, and other threats to their security." Second, such an examination will be useful in rectifying the relatively scant attention given to lower-level civil-military interactions in small wars environments in the …
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The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360
… nobility and crown to settle disputes and combat lawlessness. All in all, Lancashire highlights the great level of regional variety that characterised fourteenth-century England. Gunnar A. Welle
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The Jackpot Mentality: The Growth of Government Lotteries and the Suppression of Illegal Numbers Gambling in Rio de Janeiro and New York City
… to be the basis for widespread corruption and lawlessness. As policy makers proposed enhanced government lotteries as a solution for the problem of illegal gambling, numerous groups scrambled for position within shifting gambling frameworks. Tens of thousands of persons who had long worked in …
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The Trauma of Stalinism Narrated in Varlam T. Shalamov's Kolymskie Rasskazy : Missiological Implications for Contemporary Russia
… and institutionalization of a culture of lawlessness and death.</p> <p>The method of socio-textual interaction, utilized throughout this study, set forth a certain conception of Christian mission based on the commitment to liberation, healing, and transformation as envisioned in the …
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The relevance of Nyambedzano as an effective process for promoting morality among the youth
… show increased incidences of ill-discipline and lawlessness amongst the youth. These misdemeanours adversely affect communities and the behaviour of the youth as active, responsible and proactive members of the society and community members. Unfortunately, there are insufficient conversations …
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Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory
… left Indian homelands ripe for violence and lawlessness. The thesis concludes by evaluating the cost of the conflict. One-third of the Cherokee Nation perished during the war; nearly one-quarter of the Creek population died in the conflict. By war's end, two-thirds of Indian Territory's 1860 …
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IRA activity in Westmeath during the War of Independence, 1918-21.
… along a radical path, finally ending with total lawlessness in 1921. Chapter 2 assesses these events, attempting to explain the path that the county took in relation to the rest of the country and why different areas of the county developed conflicting attitudes and methods to the war. Finally …
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The Carceral Death Machine: Savagery, Contamination and Sacrifice in the Contemporary Prison
… and 4) within conditions of<em> functional lawlessness</em>. Resultantly, through carceral inscription, each and every inmate is rendered as a “savage,” a less-than-fully-human ontological type, and it is this concept that does sufficient ideological work to anchor normative subjectivity …