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Forty Years From Fascism: Democratic Constitutionalism And The Spanish Model Of National Transformation, Eric C. Christiansen
Forty Years From Fascism: Democratic Constitutionalism And The Spanish Model Of National Transformation, Eric C. Christiansen
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This Article seeks to understand and evaluate core elements of the past promise and present reality of Spain’s transformation from Francoist dictatorship to modern European democracy. It does this by investigating the role of the 1978 Constitution and the distinctive Spanish Model of relatively peaceful constitutional transformation in facilitating the key legal elements of Spain’s transition to democracy. Following a review of important historical developments related to Spanish constitutionalism in Part I, this Article scrutinizes the process by which Spain transitioned to democracy in the 1970s. Part II focuses particularly on the dominant characteristics of the Spanish Model, which facilitated …
A Brief History Of Anglo-Western Suicide: From Legal Wrong To Civil Right, Helen Y. Chang
A Brief History Of Anglo-Western Suicide: From Legal Wrong To Civil Right, Helen Y. Chang
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This article will examine the history of suicide from antiquity, where certain types of self-killing were socially acceptable, to its evolution as a criminal wrong and its modern reincarnation as a moral and legal right. In the early Common Era, suicide was not a criminal wrong, but with the spread of Christianity, suicide became illegal. In the present day, a growing minority of states have legalized some forms of suicide or self-killing. In 2018, six states and the District of Columbia had legalized some form of physician-assisted suicide: California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Montana, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington. Twenty-three states …