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The Promise Of Abundant Life: Patenting A Magnificent Obsession, George P. Smith Ii

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The purpose of this essay will be to explore the parameters of the scientific imperative to explore truth. The scope of this inquiry is shaped in part by the United States patent laws and administrative interpretations and, more specifically, by the United States Supreme Court in its recent holding allowing the new forms of life created in a laboratory to be patented. The ultimate purpose of this piece, then, is to refute the arrogance of power theory expressed as being implicit in the investigations of the vast potential for the positive achievement of good through harnessing the "New Biology." Thus, …

Pro Peccatis Patrum Puniri: A Moral And Legal Problem Of The Inquisition, Kenneth Pennington

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Cum Causam Que: A Decretal Of Innocent Iii, Kenneth Pennington

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Dixon’S The Leopard’S Spots: A Study In Popular Racism, Maxwell Bloomfield

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The first fourteen years of the twentieth century constituted a major reform period in American history. In politics, economics and the arts new ideas and practices emerged to shatter nineteenth-century pre- conceptions. Crusading journalists led the way in calling for a revitalized democracy to bridge the dangerous gulf separating the very rich from the very poor. Increasingly public opinion was directed toward the elimination of class barriers by absorbing laborer and capitalist, immigrant and old-stock native, into an expanded form of democratic state which should minister to the welfare of all.

Yet during these same years, when mass audiences responded …