Some acts have always been illegal, but the level of punishment inflicted for the crime has fluctuated. Drunk driving, for example, is punished more severely in the early 2000s than it was before the 1970s. The possession of a small amount of marijuana used to warrant a long prison term ...
In these contexts natural law theory offered a useful means of sidestepping intractable religious conflict while at the same time offering new resources for the legitimacy of the early modern state.doi:10.1057/9781403919533_6Jon ParkinPalgrave Macmillan UK...
In July 1767, the shipThornton, owned by London merchants “Stewart & Campbell,†lay in the Ferry Branch of the Patapsco River at Baltimore. On board were one hundred and fifty two convicts sentenced in England to transportation overseas and now ready to be sold as â€...
In statistically controlled analyses, residual confounding explained why the summer Head Start program appeared to be detrimental according to a major early evaluation study[43, 44]. Statistical controls yield unbiased estimates of causal effects only when the process of selecting recipients for a ...
Modern Evaluation on Cui Shu's Theory of Discriminating Ancient History Cui Shu was a distinguished discriminator in the Qianjia Period of the Qing Dynasty.He made great contributions to the sweeping away of the old system of a... Z Li - 《Journal of Xuchang Teachers College Social Science ...
Meghan J. Ryan Does the Eighth Amendment Punishments Clause Prohibit Only Punishments That Are Both Cruel And Unusual? Abstract: There is a great struggle in the United States between proponents of the death penalty and death penalty abolitionists who believe that the practice is cruel and even ...
[42]. In statistically controlled analyses, residual confounding explained why the summer Head Start program appeared to be detrimental according to a major early evaluation study[43,44]. Statistical controls yield unbiased estimates of causal effects only when the process of selecting recipients for ...
The first was this comment responding my post about the two recent Borgia TV series, which mentioned TV depictions of horrific pre-modern executions. Jen: “I am watching the final episode of The Borgias, Season 2, in which Savonarola is tortured and burnt at the stake, and again I find...
Roman legal procedure, long evolving system used in the Roman courts, which in its later stages formed the basis for modern procedure in civil-law countries. There were three main, overlapping stages of development: the legis actiones, which dates from the 5th-century bce law code known as ...