Let us reflect in another way, and we shall see that there is great reason to hope that death is a good; for one of two things—either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another....
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America.It is the most important law in the United States.The Constitution,originally comprising seven articles,delineates the national frame of government.Its first three articles entrench the doctrine of the separatio...
The six independent institutions established under Chapter 9 of the South African Constitution have been heavily criticised recently. One of the reasons that they are vulnerable to criticism is a lack of understanding of their role, both on the part of members of the institutions and the public....
The meaning of the "judicial power of the Commonwealth" under Ch III of the Australian Constitution is both fiercely contested and constitutionally vital. The two limbed separation of judicial power under Ch III requires that only Ch III courts may exercise such power (the first limb of the sep...
The offspring from the first cross between two pure breeds is tolerably and sometimes (as I have found with pigeons) extremely uniform, and everything seems simple enough; but when these mongrels are crossed one with another for several generations, hardly two of them will be alike, and then...
Chapter 24SpainMade los Ángeles Moreno Fernández11. National profile1.1. Overview of national characteristicsSpain is situated in the south-west of Europe, occupying the larger part ofthe Iberian peninsula together with two archipelagos and two cities in theNorth of Africa. It has about 40.5 mi...
2.1 Religious Reformation parliamentary clashes over monopolies the monarchy attempted to control commercial activities in the interests of the court King Charles I dissolved Parliament in 1629, and ruled the country without it for eleven years. The various classes in England soon split up into two ...
“Yes. And, fortunately, we have no distance to go. Evidently what puzzled the dog at the corner of Knight's Place was that there were two different trails running in opposite directions. We took the wrong one. It only remains to follow the other.” ...
Two of the seven vetoes China has used in the UN Security Council were to block peacekeeping forces in countries that extended recognition to Taiwan. These vetoes 73 74 Chapter 2 Realist Theories AMPLIFYING POWER demonstrate that if China believes its Taiwan interests are threatened, it can play...
of the two succeeding chapters, to describe the prosperous condition of their empire; and afterwards,from the death of Marcus Antoninus, to deduce the most important circumstances of its decline and fall;a revolution which will ever be remembered, and is still felt by the nations of the earth...