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From India To The Atlantic World: "Indian Grants" And The Imperial Jurisprudence Of The Eighteenth Century, Arthur Mitchell Fraas

Arthur Mitchell Fraas

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Две Стороны Одной Победы: 200-Летие Отечественной Войны 1812 Года, Leonid G. Berlyavskiy, Alexandr Vlasov

Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

Not too will be events, comparable on the importance with a victory of Russian armies in war with Napoleonic army much. For the Russian history its value is persistent. No previous wars, even the Tatar-Mongolian yoke, were perceived by consciousness national so dreadfully, never before a shock bore in itself so catastrophic potential for Russia

Высшее Образование И Наука В России (1890- 1900 Годы): Традиционные «Места Знания», Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

The "revisionist" point of view quite often meets recently on pages of the special literature - in a counterbalance to the former scheme of immemorial opposition of liberal intelligency and the inert bureaucracy, anxious is exclusive preserving of social order both the satisfied stagnancy and darkness of the lowest classes. Last point of view canonised in numerous Soviet works (even with the necessary reservations on liberal incompleteness and potential adoptive «bourgeois intelligency») itself goes back to images of antiautocratic publicism of the beginning of the XX-th century. At the same time this confrontational picture - adjusted for subjectivity of participants …

Эрнест Кольман: «Мы Не Должны Были Так Жить», Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

Leonid G. Berlyavskiy

The article is devoted Ernest Kolman (1892-1979) - to one of visible organizers of the Soviet science of 30th years and a Czechoslovak science of the post-war period, the Doctor of Philosophy, the academician of Academy of Sciences of Czechoslovakia.

How The British Gun Control Program Precipitated The American Revolution, David B. Kopel

David B Kopel

Abstract: This Article chronologically reviews the British gun control which precipitated the American Revolution: the 1774 import ban on firearms and gun powder; the 1774-75 confiscations of firearms and gun powder, from individuals and from local governments; and the use of violence to effectuate the confiscations. It was these events which changed a situation of rising political tension into a shooting war. Each of these British abuses provides insights into the scope of the modern Second Amendment.

From the events of 1774-75, we can discern that import restrictions or bans on firearms or ammunition are constitutionally suspect — at least …

Readers, Scribes, And Collectors: The Dissemination Of Legal Knowledge In Eighteenth-Century British South Asia, Arthur Mitchell Fraas

Arthur Mitchell Fraas

This draft paper - first presented at the Middle Eastern Studies Association annual conference in 2012 - looks at the circulation of legal knowledge in print and manuscript in eighteenth-century British India.

Bad News For John Marshall, David B. Kopel, Gary Lawson

David B Kopel

In Bad News for Professor Koppelman: The Incidental Unconstitutionality of the Individual Mandate, we demonstrated that the individual mandate’s forced participation in commercial transactions cannot be justified under the Necessary and Proper Clause as the Clause was interpreted in McCulloch v. Maryland. Professor Andrew Koppelman’s response, Bad News for Everybody, wrongly conflates that argument with a wide range of interpretative and substantive positions that are not logically entailed by taking seriously the requirement that laws enacted under the Necessary and Proper Clause must be incidental to an enumerated power. His response is thus largely unresponsive to our actual arguments.