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The Protection Of Respect And Human Rights: Freedom Of Choice And World Public Order, Myers Mcdougal, Harold Lasswell, Lung-Chu Chen

Articles & Chapters

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Federal And State Services And The Maine Indian : A Report, United States Commission On Civil Rights. Maine Advisory Committee

Maine Collection

Federal and State Services and the Maine Indian : A Report.

"A report of the Maine Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights prepared for the information and consideration of the Commission. This report will be considered by the Commission, and the Commission will make public its reaction. In the meantime, the findings and recommendations of this report should not be attributed to the Commission, but only to the Maine Advisory Committee. December 1974."

The New York Indians' Right To Self-Determination, James W. Clute

Buffalo Law Review

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The Equal Rights Amendment: Constraint On Discretion In Family Law, Marylou Clark, Tricia Semmelhack, Sara Steinbock

Buffalo Law Review

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More Than Law, Anthony J. Celebrezze

Vanderbilt Law Review

In mid-1963, at hearings' on what was to become the Civil Rights Act of 1964, I expressed my regret that some 37 years prior to the end of the twentieth century we found it necessary to take up legislation that dealt with basic human rights. Today, nearly a decade later, I express a similar regret that those rights have not yet been realized for every citizen of this nation.

A Study In Nondecision: The Human Rights Commission In Huntington, Nancy Potter Matthews

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Civil Rights was one of the most explosive political issues of the 1960’s. Race relations was a concern to everyone, and a special concern to government at all levels and in all parts of the United States. This paper will show how Huntington, West Virginia, a medium-sized border city with a small minority population, faced the problem. In 1962, the Mayor established a Civil Rights Commission which served to insulate the City Council--the political decision-makers—from facing and resolving the problems of the Negro minority.

Politics is understood here as the distribution of advantages and disadvantages among people. Individuals differ in …

Representation For The Poor In State Rulemaking, Allan Ashman

Vanderbilt Law Review

After a violent summer of urban unrest and civil disorder, President Johnson established the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders in 1967 to find out what happened in our nation's cities, why it happened, and to suggest ways to prevent it from occurring again. One of the findings of the Commission was that from the vantage point of the poor ghetto resident, local government was distant and unconcerned.For the poor person, particularly the poor black ghetto resident, the possibility for effective change either in his personal life style or in the political system appeared remote.' Reflecting upon this gulf between …

The Future Of America And The Role Of Law, Ray Forrester

Vanderbilt Law Review

On August 22, 1970, Dean Ray Forrester of the Cornell Law School presented this paper to the Southeastern Conference of the Association of American Law Schools and the American Association of Law Libraries meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Because the question of negativism in the academic community seldom has been raised by a highly respected legal educator, the Vanderbilt Law Review felt that these remarks were particularly significant. To test the reaction of other prominent legal educators to Dean Forrester's position, the Vanderbilt Law Review solicited the comments of the deans of various law schools. This paper and the comments that …

Human Rights In The United States: Two Decades' Development, David S. Bogen

Faculty Scholarship

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Human Rights: A Tide In The Affairs Of Men, Paul G. Kauper

Georgia Law Review

MANY movements are discernible in these turbulent days of social change and revolution. Not the least is a great tidal movement, global in its dimensions, for the articulation, extension and more effective vindication of human rights. The celebration in 1968 of the twentieth anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations Assembly of the Declaration of Human Rights riveted special attention on the human rights movement and makes this subject particularly appropriate. Since the phrasing is so apt to describe the situation, I hope I shall be forgiven for cribbing a part of Shakespeare's familiar sentence and using it in …

Arrests In Civil Disturbances: Reflections On The Use Of Deadly Force In Riots, Henry Mcgee

Faculty Articles

Professor McGee examines the use of deadly force in quelling recurrent communal rioting of alienated black urban masses in 1968. Napoleon fired “grapeshot” into a rioting Parisian crowd in 1795, and while his brutality may have quieted the rioters it should not be set as an example for our modern day police forces. Deadly force used against large numbers of citizens, who just prior to the riots were for the most part law-abiding and peaceful, can have crushing social consequences. In this article Professor McGee discusses police departmental policy, the limits of deadly force in arrests, excessive force and liability, …

Human Rights In South Africa, John T. Baker

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Negro Contributions To The Political And Legal History Of The Southern Counties Of West Virginia, Charles Edward Easton

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

The introduction of African labor as a muscular force was an adventurous enterprise, proving on trial to be the most perfect catalytic agent of production then known to commerce. This labor force was the fulfillment of the great demand of the young colony which needed a controllable and dependable labor force to make it accessible for human habitation. This labor demand made it profitable for adventurous traders to invest money in the enterprise of importing indentured servants to the new colonies in America. Later a system was developed by which individuals could come to the new colony as either indentured …

Constitutional Law--Anti-Lynching Legislation, William B. Harvey S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Despite progress in recent years toward the elimination of lynching, the demand for adequate federal legislation to cope with the problem is unabated. For almost three decades Congress has considered a succession of anti-lynching bills, most of which have been favorably reported by committees. None has become law. Legislators and others opposing the enactment of a federal anti-lynching act have placed primary reliance on an asserted lack of constitutionality. It is argued that lynching is merely local crime within the scope of the power and responsibility of the states to enforce their own criminal law. The purpose of this comment …

Recognition Of Validity And Incidents Of Marriages Between Blacks And Whites, Lewis F. Powell Jr.

Powell Writings

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An Appeal In Favor Of That Class Of Americans Called Africans, Lydia Maria Child, Paul Royster (Editor)

Electronic Texts in American Studies

The roots of white supremacy lie in the institution of negro slavery. From the 15th through the 19th century, white Europeans trafficked in abducted and enslaved Africans and justified the practice with excuses that seemed somehow to reconcile the injustice with their professed Christianity. The United States was neither the first nor the last nation to abolish slavery, but its proclaimed principles of freedom and equality were made ironic by the nation’s reluctance to extend recognition to all Americans.

“Americans” is what Mrs. Child calls those fellow countrymen of African ancestry; citizenship and equality are what she proposed beyond simple …