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Administrative Equal Protection: Federalism, The Fourteenth Amendment, And The Rights Of The Poor, Karen M. Tani Dec 2014

Administrative Equal Protection: Federalism, The Fourteenth Amendment, And The Rights Of The Poor, Karen M. Tani

Karen M. Tani


This Article intervenes in a burgeoning literature on “administrative constitutionalism,” the phenomenon of federal agencies—rather than courts—assuming significant responsibility for elaborating the meaning of the U.S. Constitution.  Drawing on original historical research, I document and analyze what I call “administrative equal protection”: interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause in a key federal agency at a time when the Clause’s meaning was fiercely contested.  These interpretations are particularly important because of their interplay with cooperative federalism—specifically, with states’ ability to exercise their traditional police power after accepting federal money.
The Article’s argument is based on a story of change …

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Introduction: Whose Bosnia?, Edin Hajdarpasic Dec 2014

Introduction: Whose Bosnia?, Edin Hajdarpasic

Edin Hajdarpasic

This introductory chapter proposes a new approach to understanding the dynamics of nationalism. The book understands the task of nationalizing one’s “own people” as the basic structural condition on which national projects are founded and renewed. The chapter then approaches nationalist politics in Bosnia using what Claudio Lomnitz has characterized as “grounded theory.”

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Maquiavelo Y El Crecimiento Como Fin (Telos) Del Estado, William J. Connell Dec 2014

Maquiavelo Y El Crecimiento Como Fin (Telos) Del Estado, William J. Connell

William Connell

There is a tradition of attempting to solve outstanding problems in the interpretation of Machiavelli by studying the context (historical and linguistic) of his works, with a particular focus on Machiavellis use of such «keywords» as stato and virtù. What is often neglected is the extent to which Machiavelli intentionally diverged from the meaning and usage of his contemporaries precisely when it came to using such important terms. Since Machiavelli was trying to break free of his «context» contextual readings need to take care not to flatten his meaning. An examination of Machiavellis use of stato in combination with words …

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History Of The Blues, Dan Rager Dec 2014

History Of The Blues, Dan Rager

Dan Rager

This all inclusive History of the Blues introduction begins as early as 1400, when the first global trading routes began. Two early maps are enclosed from this period showing the direction and locations from which people, food and supplies were moved.

This research presentation illustrates African tribes such as the Arada, Dahomey and Fulani who sang music in their daily rituals and ceremonies long before they were moved to other continents. Early developmental music elements are introduced including spirituals, worksongs, Scottish ballads, Methodist and Baptist hymns, call and response, guttural effects, interpolated vocality, falsetto and blue notes. All of these …

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Review Of The Hebrew Book In Early Modern Italy, Ed. Joseph R. Hacker And Adam Shear, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2014

Review Of The Hebrew Book In Early Modern Italy, Ed. Joseph R. Hacker And Adam Shear, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.

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İlk Nüfus Sayımında Çetmi, Hasan Ali Polat Dec 2014

İlk Nüfus Sayımında Çetmi, Hasan Ali Polat

Hasan Ali POLAT

No abstract provided.

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Sean J. Mclaughlin And Jie Gao Bangqiu Mlb’S Role In Baseball’S Comeback In The People’S Republic.Pdf, Sean Mclaughlin Dec 2014

Sean J. Mclaughlin And Jie Gao Bangqiu Mlb’S Role In Baseball’S Comeback In The People’S Republic.Pdf, Sean Mclaughlin

Sean McLaughlin

This article explores the growth of Chinese baseball since the early 1970s. The sport was very popular in the 1940s and 1950s as the semi-official pastime of the People’s Liberation Army, but it disappeared from the country in the 1960s due to economic woes stemming from the Great Leap Forward and the anti-western fervour of the
Cultural Revolution. Richard Nixon’s historic meeting with Chairman Mao in 1972 ushered in a thaw in Sino–American relations that enabled veterans of 1950s competitions to take up baseball once again and teach the game to a new generation. Over the 1970s, baseball began to …

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“Archival Practices: The Creation Of A Portuguese Jewish Identity", Aviva Ben-Ur Dec 2014

“Archival Practices: The Creation Of A Portuguese Jewish Identity", Aviva Ben-Ur

Aviva Ben-Ur

This article discusses the relationship of Caribbean Jews to their communal archives, focusing on the Dutch colonies of Curaçao and Suriname, homes to the largest Jewish communities in the eighteenth-century Americas.

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Review Of The Italian Renaissance And Cultural History Of The Rinascimento, Brian Maxson Dec 2014

Review Of The Italian Renaissance And Cultural History Of The Rinascimento, Brian Maxson

Brian J. Maxson

This book reviewed rejects recent scholarship that has minimized the significance of the Italian Renaissance. Instead, it argues that the cities of Florence, Venice, and Milan enjoyed a distinct period of precocity over the rest of Europe between roughly 130--1500.

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Review Of The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticaries, Brian Maxson Dec 2014

Review Of The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700: Objects, Spaces, Domesticaries, Brian Maxson

Brian J. Maxson

This reviewed book offers a fascinating series of inquiries into the objects, architecture, and spaces in home interiors in early modern Italy, particularly in Florence, Venice, and Bologna.

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Review Of Neo-Latin And The Humanities: Essays In Honour Of Charles E. Fantazzi, Ed. By Luc Deitz, Timothy Kircher, And Jonathan Reid., Brian Maxson Dec 2014

Review Of Neo-Latin And The Humanities: Essays In Honour Of Charles E. Fantazzi, Ed. By Luc Deitz, Timothy Kircher, And Jonathan Reid., Brian Maxson

Brian J. Maxson

This is a collection of essays that works to illustrate the cultural force of Neo-Latin and the humanists who wrote them.

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Review Of Living Well In Renaissance Italy: The Virtues Of Humanism And The Irony Of Leon Battista Alberti, By Timothy Kircher., Brian Maxson Dec 2014

Review Of Living Well In Renaissance Italy: The Virtues Of Humanism And The Irony Of Leon Battista Alberti, By Timothy Kircher., Brian Maxson

Brian J. Maxson

Leon Battista Alberti wrote with a sense of irony that separated his works from his humanist contemporaries and linked him to the tradition of fourteenth-century vernacular writers, particularly Petrarch and Boccaccio. His irony was characterized by his encouragement to look for virtue beneath appearances and his distrust of equating virtue with humanist learning.

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The State Response To Occupy: Surveillance And Suppression, Ivan Greenberg Dec 2014

The State Response To Occupy: Surveillance And Suppression, Ivan Greenberg

Ivan Greenberg

No abstract provided.

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A Telegram In 1945, Maureen E. Schlangen Dec 2014

A Telegram In 1945, Maureen E. Schlangen

Maureen E. Schlangen

A personal essay about the impact of the death of Pvt. Clarence W. Chester of Tiffin, Ohio, in the waning days of World War II.

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Curry On Tanenhaus, 'The Constitutional Rights Of Children: In Re Gault And Juvenile Justice' (Book Review), Lynne E. Curry Dec 2014

Curry On Tanenhaus, 'The Constitutional Rights Of Children: In Re Gault And Juvenile Justice' (Book Review), Lynne E. Curry

Lynne E. Curry

Is a child's basic right that of liberty or custody? In 1967, Justice William Brennan posed this question during oral arguments in In re Gault. Nearly fifty years later, David S. Tanenhaus's elegant analysis of this interesting case demonstrates the legal and historical complexities underlying Justice Brennan's deceptively simple question. For the millions of young citizens who have found themselves enmeshed within the United States' juvenile justice system, the answers to Justice Brennan's question have carried life-altering consequences. For historians and legal scholars, exploring various responses in differing times and places reveals a great deal about Americans' fundamental beliefs and values. Since …

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"There Were Streets": Urban Renewal And The Early Troubles In London/Derry, Northern Ireland, Margo Shea Dec 2014

"There Were Streets": Urban Renewal And The Early Troubles In London/Derry, Northern Ireland, Margo Shea

Margo Shea

Spatializing Politics is an anthology of emerging scholarship that treats built and imagined spaces as critical to knowing political power. In academic and popular discourse, spaces tend to serve as passive containers, symbols, or geographical coordinates for political theories, ideologies, and histories. By contrast, the essays in this collection illustrate how buildings and landscapes as disparate as Rust Belt railway stations and rural Rwandan hills become tools of political action and frameworks for political authority. Each chapter features original research on the spatial production of conflict and consensus, which ranges from exclusion and incarceration to reclamation and reconciliation. By focusing …

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Delegate Speaking Patterns At The Federal Convention Surveyed As To The Twenty-Five Votes That Made The Presidency, Peter J. Aschenbrenner Dec 2014

Delegate Speaking Patterns At The Federal Convention Surveyed As To The Twenty-Five Votes That Made The Presidency, Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

In Twenty-Five Votes that Made the Presidency Our Constitutional Logic surveyed votes taken on August 24, September 5 and September 6. OCL tables the number of times the delegates to the convention acted on these 25 occasions. Motions made, jointly made, seconded, as well as speaking for and speaking against the motion are calendared by delegate. Five of 22 actions by Slave_Owners are scored to James Madison; 7 of 31 action by non-Slave_owners were taken by Hugh Williamson of North Carolina.

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Advocating For Mother Earth In The Undergraduate Classroom: Uniting Twenty-First Century Technologies, Local Resources, Art, And Activism To Explore Our Place In Nature, Christina Triezenberg, Ilse Schweitzer Vandonkelaar Mar 2014

Advocating For Mother Earth In The Undergraduate Classroom: Uniting Twenty-First Century Technologies, Local Resources, Art, And Activism To Explore Our Place In Nature, Christina Triezenberg, Ilse Schweitzer Vandonkelaar

Ilse A Schweitzer VanDonkelaar

Despite the growing evidence of humanity’s impact on the natural world and the urgent need to shape citizens who understand the impact that their choices and actions have on their local and global environments, colleges and universities throughout the United States have been slow to add environmental education as a core component of their undergraduate curricula. Harnessing our shared interest in environment issues and the humanities, we designed and taught an experimental course in environmental literature for the honors program at Western Michigan University that we hope will become a template of what is possible in postsecondary environmental education. Using …

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