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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Presidential Responses To Protest: Lessons Jefferson Davis Never Learned, Ashlee Paxton-Turner
Presidential Responses To Protest: Lessons Jefferson Davis Never Learned, Ashlee Paxton-Turner
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Social Hierarchies And The Formation Of Customary Property Law In Pre-Industrial China And England, Taisu Zhang
Social Hierarchies And The Formation Of Customary Property Law In Pre-Industrial China And England, Taisu Zhang
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Comparative lawyers and economists have often assumed that traditional Chinese laws and customs reinforced the economic and political dominance of elites and, therefore, were unusually “despotic” towards the poor. Such assumptions are highly questionable: Quite the opposite, one of the most striking characteristics of Qing and Republican property institutions is that they often gave significantly greater economic protection to the poorer segments of society than comparable institutions in early modern England. In particular, Chinese property customs afforded much stronger powers of redemption to landowners who had pawned their land. In both societies, land-pawning occurred far more frequently among poorer households …
The National Security State: The End Of Separation Of Powers, Michael E. Tigar
The National Security State: The End Of Separation Of Powers, Michael E. Tigar
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Full Faith And Credit In The Early Congress, Stephen E. Sachs
Full Faith And Credit In The Early Congress, Stephen E. Sachs
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After more than 200 years, the Full Faith and Credit Clause remains poorly understood. The Clause first issues a self-executing command (that "Full Faith and Credit shall be given"), and then empowers Congress to prescribe the manner of proof and the "Effect" of state records in other states. But if states must accord each other full faith and credit-and if nothing could be more than full-then what "Effect" could Congress give state records that they wouldn't have already? And conversely, how could Congress in any way reduce or alter the faith and credit that is due?
This Article seeks to …
Attorney General Taney & The South Carolina Police Bill, H. Jefferson Powell
Attorney General Taney & The South Carolina Police Bill, H. Jefferson Powell
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Haymarket: Whose Name The Few Still Say With Tears, A Dramatization In Eleven Scenes, Michael E. Tigar
Haymarket: Whose Name The Few Still Say With Tears, A Dramatization In Eleven Scenes, Michael E. Tigar
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Original Understanding And The Constitution, Michael E. Tigar
Original Understanding And The Constitution, Michael E. Tigar
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The Mccarthy Era: History As Snapshot, Michael E. Tigar
The Mccarthy Era: History As Snapshot, Michael E. Tigar
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