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Conflict Of Interest From Preparing Note Used By Client: Hetos Invs., Ltd. V Kurtin, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
Conflict Of Interest From Preparing Note Used By Client: Hetos Invs., Ltd. V Kurtin, 2003, Roger Bernhardt
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This article discusses a California case which held that a law firm not barred from representing its client in a lawsuit contending that a promissory note it prepared on the client’s behalf was usurious under California law.
Self-Ownership And The Political Theory Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth B. Clark
Self-Ownership And The Political Theory Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth B. Clark
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The emphasis on freedom or enslavement of the body, and the issues that sprang from that focus, were feminists' contribution to nineteenth-century American liberalism, as well as their link to radical thought. Elizabeth Cady Stanton drew arguments from the realm of political liberty and religious tolerance to make the case for choice in private life. But the vision of individual autonomy in sexual and domestic matters served also as the basis for her definition of citizenship and as a paradigm for relations among citizens and between citizens and the state. Self-ownership was the unifying theme that ran through Stanton's political …