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Ex Post Modernism: How The First Amendment Framed Nonrepresentational Art, Sonya G. Bonneau

Sonya G Bonneau

Nonrepresentational art repeatedly surfaces in legal discourse as an example of highly valued First Amendment speech. It is also systematically described in constitutionally valueless terms: nonlinguistic, noncognitive, and apolitical. Why does law talk about nonrepresentational art at all, much less treat it as a constitutional precept? What are the implications for conceptualizing artistic expression as free speech?

This article contends that the source of nonrepresentational art’s presumptive First Amendment value is the same source of its utter lack thereof: modernism. Specifically, a symbolic alliance between abstraction and freedom of expression was forged in the mid-twentieth century, informed by social and …

English Editions Of "Five Weeks In A Balloon", Arthur B. Evans

Arthur Bruce Evans

Overview of the English translations of Jules Verne's debut novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon.

The Oceans In The Nuclear Age: Challenges, Questions And Possibilities, David D. Caron, Harry N. Scheiber

David D. Caron

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Constitutional Dignity: Lessons From Home And Abroad, Erin Daly

Erin Daly

The American Supreme Court has long recognized the dignity of states, especially in the recent spate of tenth and eleventh amendment cases. Yet, it has never fully embraced the concept of human dignity as part of its individual rights jurisprudence (though individual justices have done so). By contrast, courts around the world have increasingly recognized human dignity as an important, if not predominant, constitutional right. This article argues that both the American Supreme Court state sovereignty cases and the foreign human dignity cases evince an understanding of human dignity that is rooted in the idea of autonomy and self-determination. Defined …

Masonry And Orangeism: More Fraternal And Less Vitrolic In A Changing Scene, Paul J. Rich

Paul J. Rich

The Orange Order has figured in Irish history and in the problems of Northern Ireland for two centuries. Although it has many Masonic affinities, it is an international movement (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, parts of Africa) with it sown distinct culture, and its rituals at times have supported a virulent Protestantism.

"'Rosebloom And Pure White,' Or So It Seemed", Mary Niall Mitchell

Mary Niall Mitchell

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Literary Analysis Of The Special Form Of Satire Swift Invented For A Modest Proposal, Charles Kay Smith

Charles Kay Smith

Some of Swift's more conventional classical figures of speech have already been noted, though more or less in isolation to one another as well as to larger designs and aesthetic aims. Swift's genius in A Modest Proposal is to create a speaker whose monologue keeps two distinct styles operational at all times. The style of which the speaker is aware is constantly opposed by covert and innovative verbal and grammatical techniques which the proposer sets in motion but of which he remains unaware, which slowly but surely turns a reader's sympathies against him and against those who share his callous …