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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Petitioning"”.
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Petitioning Mothers in England and Wales, 1660-1720
This thesis examines 1,767 petitions submitted by mothers from across the socio-economic hierarchy to the crown, House of Lords, and quarter sessions courts in England and Wales between 1660 and 1720. These petitions reveal the every-day and in extremis situations that mothers of the early modern …
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Petitioning and Political Culture in Late Company Madras, 1830-1860
This dissertation studies the development of reformist political culture in South India during the last decades of East India Company rule in the mid-nineteenth century. Through an analysis of a wide-ranging body of South Indian sources, including mass petitions (some signed by as many as 70,000 …
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Petitionary Negotiation in a Community in Conflict: King’s Lynn and West Norfolk c.1575 to 1662
… expectations and values. The persistence of petitioning, even in times of greatest conflict, indicates the high value placed on this form of interactive negotiation. The background to individual petitions is shown by a review of the political environments of petitioning and the process of …
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Divine Sovereignty, Divine Providence, and Prayer in the Thought of Evagrius Ponticus
… first part of the chapter focuses upon general petitioning, and the second examines divine providence and petition as they relate to spiritual warfare against demons and their "thoughts." Here we find that petitioning against demons assumes the sovereignty and providence of the Holy Trinity, as …
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Expression of Status in Sixteenth Century Tlaxcala
… successfully on their military service by petitioning for and receiving certain privileges from the colonial Spanish authorities. This campaign was successful because the Tlaxcalans chose to communicate their identity and status to the Spanish government in a Hispanized manner. In sixteenth …
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The political role of the principal in community/school system relations
… to use when assisting communities that are petitioning school systems for additional resources are obtained.
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Anticompetitive effects of antidumping policy in Mexico
… emphasis on the domestic market structure of the petitioning country.
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Nature, History, and the Sacred in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
… come to deposit photocopies of letters petitioning saintly jinn (superhuman spirits) for fulfillment of their personal and spiritual needs, many of them forming relationships with each other that could not exist outside this space. Firoz Shah Kotla is just one of several sacralized …
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Claiming the state : citizen-state relations and service delivery in rural India
… who do not engage the state at all, to direct petitioning of officials, to strategies mediated through non-state actors and informal institutions. Such variation cannot be adequately explained by an individual's socioeconomic status, by the characteristics of formal institutions, or by levels …
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The reparation of harm: A canonical analysis of canon 128 with reference to its common law parallels.
… that c. 128 has been under-used as a basis for petitioning a canonical forum to remedy unlawfully inflicted harm. It demonstrates that c. 128 can be used as a foundational canon having its own broad applications rather that simply being a philosophical and canonical support for other juridic …
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For Alma Mater: Fighting for Change at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
… conflict, stood frustrated students and alumni petitioning their predominately White Boards of Trustees/administration to recognize their status as institutional stakeholders. This dissertation focuses on alumni and student activism at three HBCUs, Lincoln University, Fisk University, and …
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Court politics and the kingship of James VI & I, c. 1615-c. 1622
… is treated next, through detailed studies of petitioning and procurement of the sign manual, and of the changing structure of James' s counsels. Court-political episodes in which physical access to the king is said to have weighed heavily are then closely re-examined. Finally, contemporary …
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Four Practices Correlated to a Sense of Belonging in a Church
… attention is given to Jesus’s prayer in John 17 petitioning that the church would be one as He and the Father are one. In chapter 3, the biblical imperatives for communal practices are examined. They are rooted in Christ’s love for His church, provide a comprehensive rubric for fellowship among …
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Maintenant nous te parlons, ne dedaigne pas nous ecouter Petitions et Relation Speciale entre les Premieres Nations et la Couronne au Canada, 1840-1860
… channels maintained by the First Nations through petitioning opened a space to put forward discursive forms of resistance to colonial policies, but also to participatewithin the limits of their exclusion from the political sphere, to the redefinition of Indian politics in the middle of the …
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Persian miniature writing: An ethnography of Iranian organizations in Washington, D.C.
… of participation in democracy such as voting or petitioning or by teaching Iranians how to reconfigure their understanding of the individual, rights, life, sovereignty, and will in democratic as opposed to totalitarian terms, the sheer feasibility and affordability of becoming (instead of the …
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Liberated Africans and Law in the South Atlantic, c. 1839-1871
… processes that ended apprenticeship, including petitioning the state and negotiating new labour relations.
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Life of the Party or Just a Third Wheel? Effects of Third Parties in U.S. House Elections
… party vote shares, conditional on successful petitioning, due to a screening and quality effect. I explore the effects of third party threat in unidimensional and multidimensional settings. A formal model of elections predicts that the threat of entry induces major party divergence in a …
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Standing Trans Before the Law
… the United States began asserting their rights, petitioning courts for name changes, updating sex markers on birth certificates and other identity documents, and confirming whether their marriages were legal. However, it was not until the mid-2000s that courts began recognizing trans …
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The Effects of Commercial Harvest on the Density and Demography of Aquatic Turtles in Arkansas
… and conservation organizations have begun petitioning states to close or strictly regulate commercial turtle harvest. Baseline data on turtle populations in the MAV of Arkansas is lacking. We conducted a three-year capture-mark-recapture (CMR) study of turtle community composition, density, …
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The Howzevi (Seminarian) Women in Iran: Constituting and Reconstituting Paths
… of groups of revolutionary Islamist women in petitioning Ayatollah Khomeini for the establishment of Jami'at Al-Zahra in Qom. By Islamicizing public space, the revolution also enabled these women to move into the public sphere. Since then, the howzeh elmiyeh for women has been an ongoing …
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