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Applicants To Prize Winner Organizations As Winners-James T. Struck Ba, Bs, Aa, Mlis Case Study, James T. Struck
Applicants To Prize Winner Organizations As Winners-James T. Struck Ba, Bs, Aa, Mlis Case Study, James T. Struck
James T Struck
Applicants to Peace Prize Winner Organizations as Winners of those Prizes-James T. Struck BA, BS, AA, MLIS Case Study Applicants to Peace Prize Winner Organizations can arguably be seen as co-winners of those prizes related to employment discrimination concepts. As employment discrimination is illegal, people like me here in this application letter who applied to work with the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 8/2013 can be seen as winners of those prizes. The legal implications of applicants being co-winners are clearly controversial. Should co-winners have some share of the prizes? As prize competition is an industry, prize applicants …
Founding-Era Conventions And The Meaning Of The Constitution’S “Convention For Proposing Amendments”, Robert G. Natelson
Founding-Era Conventions And The Meaning Of The Constitution’S “Convention For Proposing Amendments”, Robert G. Natelson
Robert G. Natelson
Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, two thirds of state legislatures may require Congress to call a “Convention for proposing Amendments.” Because this procedure has never been used, commentators frequently debate the composition of the convention and the rules governing the application and convention process. However, the debate has proceeded almost entirely without knowledge of the many multi-colony and multi-state conventions held during the eighteenth century, of which the Constitutional Convention was only one. These conventions were governed by universally-accepted convention practices and protocols. This Article surveys those conventions and shows how their practices and protocols shaped the meaning …
Slaves To Contradictions: 13 Myths That Sustained Slavery, Wilson Huhn
Slaves To Contradictions: 13 Myths That Sustained Slavery, Wilson Huhn
Wilson R. Huhn
People have a fundamental need to think of themselves as “good people.” To achieve this we tell each other stories – we create myths – about ourselves and our society. These myths may be true or they may be false. The more discordant a myth is with reality, the more difficult it is to convince people to embrace it. In such cases to sustain the illusion of truth it may be necessary to develop an entire mythology – an integrated web of mutually supporting stories. This paper explores the system of myths that sustained the institution of slavery in the …