He played a leading role in the Constitutional Convention of 1787, where he helped design the checks and balances that operate among Congress, the president, and the Supreme Court. He also helped create the U.S. federal system, which divides power between the central government and the states...
When we adopted the model of freedom back in 1860, in 35 years, we became a leading world power. 请相信我,没有人比我们阿根廷人更能证明这两种观点啦!当我们在1860年采用自由模式时,35年后,我们就成为了世界领先的强国。 And when we embraced collectivism over the course of the last 100 years,...
VIENNA, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- The first results from Austria's parliamentary election held here on Sunday showed that the far-right Freedom Party is leading the national vote and set to secure its first-ever general election win, according to media reports. The Freedom Party is projected to ...
an irrational misperception of underlying risks leading to cycles of excessive optimism and pessimism (Akerlof, G. and Shiller, R., 2009, Hill, G., 2006). Irrational exuberance can for example derive from bandwagon effects where banks and other financial institutions mimic the decisions of first-...
Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right: Who Owes What to the Very Poor? - Introduction Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which together clarify and defend the claim that freedom from poverty is ......
Author of The American Republic (published in 1865) and of much more, Brownson explained that our country's "providential constitution" is deeper and more comprehensively compelling than the Lockean theorizing of Jefferson and other leading founders and framers. Our framers, who built for the ...
As Jeremy Griffith explains in this presentation when the conscious mind went in search of knowledge a conflict between our instinct and intellect broke out, leading to an undeserved sense of guilt and insecurity that caused us to become psychologically defensive, angry, alienated and egocentric, ...
they are actually hugely meaningful. The truth about men was certainly not as it appeared: they weren’t selfish, world-destroying monsters—quite the reverse. So when the leading feminists Germaine Greer and Gloria Steinem said, respectively,‘As far as I’m concerned, men are the product of...
This includes the power to force everyone to worship as the sovereign requires, for Hobbes saw reli- gious differences as one of the leading sources of conflict. For the sake of security, then, the people grant the sovereign absolute, unlimited power, retaining only the right to defend ...
LikeTo Catch a Thief, Mike Nichols’The Graduate, of 1967, was a superlative film based on a mediocre novel. It is one of the greatest rite-of-passage-coming-of-age movies, combining motifs of forbidden sex, rebellion, redemption, and an Alfa Romeo plays a leading role as a means of ...