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Obscenity Standards In Canada And The United States: A Comparative Study In Constitutional Law, Ronald Edward Dean
Obscenity Standards In Canada And The United States: A Comparative Study In Constitutional Law, Ronald Edward Dean
Doctoral Dissertations
The purpose of this dissertation is to study the comparative constitutional development of obscenity law in Canada and the United States. The research focuses on analysis of case law with particular emphasis of Supreme Court decisions in the two countries. Obscenity law is not static, but is, rather, an active and on-going area of constitutional law.
The central problem in the legal approach to obscenity has been the development of a definition. The original conceptualization of obscenity for both Canada and the United States came from an English decision in 1868, which dominated the field until the late 1950's. The …
The Value System As A Source Of Political Attitudes, William S. Maddox
The Value System As A Source Of Political Attitudes, William S. Maddox
Masters Theses
The field of political psychology focuses on specific political behavior as it relates to a total measure of the individual. This research effort chose as a possible summation of that totality the value system, defined as any individual's description of his total image of the world and the behavior which he prefers in dealing with that world. Within this perspective, political attitudes are the result of the expression of a broad and abstract value system with reference to a specific attitude object.
The research design utilized Q methodology to gather empirical descriptions of values systems toward a political issue, i.e., …