annihilation of democratic politics and governing institutions. The book shows how the extended neglect or slow-motion decay of civil society openly contradicts and degrades the high-minded legal ideals of democratic constitutions, which promise liberty, equality, justice and dignified solidarity to all...
Struik told journalists that he was a “Marxist in the broadest sense,” but he denied being a member of the Communist Party. In fact, as required by state law, he had taken an oath pledging to support both the US and Massachusetts constitutions. MIT MUSEUM In a meeting with MIT presiden...
introduced when new constitutions were adopted, but countries witholder constitutions, including Belgium, Chile, France, Greece, Haiti, Luxembourg,Mexico, and Panama, have strengthened equal rights for all through amendments.But there has not been clear momentum for two groups: migrants and LGBT+...
Even if the Second Amendment did not enshrine an individual right in the Constitution, “the individual right to bear arms has never depended on [the Second Amendment]. At least forty-three of the fifty state constitutions contain language that clearly and unambiguously protects the right of indiv...
"It became this very biased, pseudo-science racial measurement," said Danielle Lucero, a member of Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico and a doctoral student at Arizona State University. Many tribes that adopted constitutions under the Indian Reorganization Act, and even those that did not, cha...
Sometimes with a sign but sometimes without, the towns had legal or unspoken constitutions to harass, drive out or even murder black residents and visitors. Other minority groups were sometimes targeted, too.But Loewen said these were mostly a northern and western phenomena. He found only three ...
There’s drug laws, too. Would we allow Mexico, for example, to legalize narcotics? Would we put up with that? There’s managed trade, in terms of NAFTA, agreements like this. Of course, the Marshall Plan, after World War II, and democracy itself, which arguably, and in my opinion,...
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I didn't know. I thought I was going to be a singer and musician. That's what I had been doing, for a huge part of my life. Adan Canto Music, in Mexico, just wasn't working out. So, I fell into acting and I just fell in love with it. It was amazing! It was a great ...