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Civil Liberties and the Canadian Minorities
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The feminist pornography debates: Civil rights v. civil liberties
… controversy among feminists over a proposed civil rights antipornography ordinance. This ordinance was written by antipornography feminists' Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, and as a result of its popularity, an opposing feminist organization, the Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce …
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Framing Terrorism: Implications for Public Opinion, Civil Liberties, and Counterterrorism Policies
The competing values of national security and civil liberties have been contested as conflicting ideas during times of national emergencies and war, in which the canonical knowledge asserts that the temporary secession of civil liberties is sometimes necessary to protect national security. After …
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Has Neoliberalism Affected American Civil Liberties? Examining the Criminal Justice System and the Welfare State
… if neoliberal economic policies have affected civil liberties in the United States and sets out to understand this relationship in several ways. Firstly, by investigating the shift from Keynesianism to market fundamentalism. Secondly, by evaluating the growth in the prison industrial complex. …
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The KwaZulu-government and Inkatha Freedom Party’s record on civil liberties in South Africa, 1990-1994
… In the TRC it was where all the violation of civil liberties were heard coming from these people and others. The Caprivi Trainees, KwaZulu Police, Vigilantes and the Warlords were the ones who turned KwaZulu into a political slaughter house in terms of violation of civil liberties of all …
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The Impact of Middle Class Economic Strength on Civil Liberties Performance and Domestic and External Peace
… strength of a country's middle-class with its civil liberties performance and its history of domestic and external conflict. For purposes of this analysis, the relative strength of a country's middle-class is determined by multiplying the square root of a country's gross domestic product per …
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The Rhetoric of Learned Hand in Selected Civil Liberties Cases: A Method for Analysis of Judicial Opinions
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Freedom and order : how democratic governments abridge civil liberties after terrorist attacks -- and why sometimes they don't
… "What explains the variation in governments' civil liberty-abridging responses to terrorist attacks?" In the United States, it was not until a year after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing-and three years after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing-that Bill Clinton signed major civil …
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The Proud Plaintiff: The Mattachine Society of Washington, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Invention of Gay Pride, 1957-1969
… story: its legal alliance with the American Civil Liberties Union. This dissertation relies on tens of thousands of pages of archived personal papers (belonging to Kameny, his fellow homophile activists, and ACLU attorneys), recently declassified legal transcripts and government documents, …
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The United States and the United Kingdom: Achieving a Constitutional Balance between Civil Liberties and National Security during the War on Terror
… equal normative weight to national security and civil liberty imperatives. The focus is not merely between how this legislation strikes a balance between national security and civil liberties; it is also on the ways in which judicial intervention serves as a check to both executive and …
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SEX OF PREVIOUS CHILDREN AND INTENTIONS FOR FURTHER BIRTHS, 1965-1970; CHANGES IN THE PUBLIC'S COMMITMENT TO CIVIL LIBERTIES, 1954-1973; BROKEN HOMES AND DELINQUENCY: A REASSESSMENT
Part I. Previous analyses of samples of women in the 1950's revealed that intentions for further births were affected by the sex of the previous children. More recent analyses found however that the effect of previous childrens' sex on fertility intentions has either diminished or disappeared …
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The Legal Accountability of the UK Intelligence Services
… favour of the ideological values integral to the civil liberties agenda or it has been weighted in favour of potentially countervailing national security considerations. This thesis argues that neither of these perspectives, in and of itself, is fully able to reconcile the need to protect national …
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Silencing the Cell Block: The Making of Modern Prison Policy in North Carolina and the Nation
… relationship between imprisoned activists and civil liberties lawyers from the 1960s to the present in order to solve a puzzle central to the United States’ peculiar criminal justice system: Why do American prisons, despite affording inmates expansive due process protections, continue to punish …
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Foreign direct investment and neighbouring influences
… in general, indicate that an improvement in civil liberties and political rights, improved infrastructure, higher growth rates and a higher degree of openness of the host country, lead to increases in FDI; higher levels of human capital attract FDI to the developed countries but deter FDI in …
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Essays on institutions and economic development in Kenya
… power operating under weak political rights and civil liberties use legal operators to benefit themselves and their close associates. For instance, starting with British rule - protectorate period (1885-1920) and colonial period (1920-1963) - an extensive legal apparatus designed by those holding …
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Regional Readiness For Intelligence Information Sharing To Support Homeland Security
… improve security without compromising existing civil liberties. Their second report proposed that the government set up an information-sharing network using currently available technology to improve our ability to prevent terrorist attacks, while protecting civil liberties. The Markle …
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Repression, Elections, and Competitiveness in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
… Mobilization datasets to examine repression of civil liberties. Both comparative case studies and OLS regression are used to investigate repression levels over time. I observe from the comparative case studies that repression is not a tool often used by these competitive authoritarian regime …
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World War I and Local Change in America: Federal War Production and Class Relations in Portland, Oregon
… the arenas of industrial relations and civil liberties, critical to the organizations of workers, at the center of inquiry. I analyze interaction among: the local political establishment, AFL unions, shipyard owners, 'enemy aliens,' and anti-capitalist radicals.
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Study of voting alignments in the 1977 U. S. House of Representatives : a policy dimension approach.
… UNION DEVOTION" (labor-management issues), "CIVIL LIBERTIES," "GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT" (governmental regulation of private business and the economy), and "SOCIAL WELFARE." Every Representative was assigned six "policy dimension" voting scores. Each score was based upon the level of support …
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The Benjamin Franklin Randolph Monument: A Symbol of Remembrance and Defiance In the Age of Reconstruction
… the struggle to protect the political and civil liberties of blacks and Republicans in a form of nonviolent defiance against Democrats and white militant groups that sought to collapse the Republican-controlled state government.</p>
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