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Report Of The Commission Of Enquiry Into Certain Allegations Of Cruelty And Human Rights Abuse Against Anc Prisoners And Detainees By Anc Members, Motsuenyane Commission Of Inquiry, Margaret A. Burnham, Bernard E. Harcourt, David E. Loftis, Samuel M. Motsuenyane, David M. Zamchiya
Report Of The Commission Of Enquiry Into Certain Allegations Of Cruelty And Human Rights Abuse Against Anc Prisoners And Detainees By Anc Members, Motsuenyane Commission Of Inquiry, Margaret A. Burnham, Bernard E. Harcourt, David E. Loftis, Samuel M. Motsuenyane, David M. Zamchiya
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The Motsuenyane Commission of Inquiry was appointed by the President of the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC), Dr. Nelson Mandela, to investigate allegations of human rights abuses and alleged disappearances among its members. Its terms of reference were dated the 12th January, 1993. This is a historic event insofar as it is the first time that a liberation movement has engaged an independent commission to review allegations that its members violated human rights guarantees within its ranks.
The Incompleat Burkean: Bruce Ackerman's Foundation For Constitutional History, Eben Moglen
The Incompleat Burkean: Bruce Ackerman's Foundation For Constitutional History, Eben Moglen
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With this book, the first in a projected series of at least three volumes, Bruce Ackerman confirms what attentive readers of his law review articles of the past ten years have already known-he is the most original and important writer on constitutional theory in the contemporary English-speaking world. We the People: Foundations, despite its informal, sometimes overly talky style, is not an easy book. Filled to the brim, even to overflowing, and containing many gestures in the direction of arguments to be made in future volumes rather than the substance of the arguments themselves, it presents both the casual reader …