THE MEANING OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION: The Anti-Humiliation Principle and Same-Sex MarriageBruce Ackerman's volume on the civil rights revolution argues that the Second Reconstruction was centrally concerned with the concept of institutionalized humiliation. Ackerman inveighs against the fact that ...
No such restriction applies in Southern vernacular speech, whererightcan be used to intensify the meaning of many adjectives and adverbs, as inHe's right niceorYou talk right fast.This broader use ofrightis attested as far back as the 1400s and is found in the works of Shakespeare and ...
(redirected fromCivil contract) Thesaurus Related to Civil contract:social contract civil union n. A legally sanctioned relationship between two people, especially of the same sex, having many of the rights and responsibilities of marriage.
aFair sense of the meaning of the Civil Code should be the main emphasis of the rights and obligations, or the reasonable allocation of benefits and burdens shared among social subjects interrelated. 民事规章的意思的公平的感觉应该是权利和义务的主要重点或者在社会主题和负担的被共享的合理的分派好处交...
others the horizontal application of rights, the justiciability of socioeconomic rights, the 'rules of standing' in the South African Constitution (s 38) and the phrase 'access to…' This enables us to incorporate autochthonous action, development and welfare in constructing the meaning of rights...
摘要: Title VII1 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment on account of race, sex, religion, or national origin, was enacted against the background of a legislative history2 which provided extensive explanation of its intended meaning....
The first principle does not prevent bad civil rights law from being translated into criminal law, but it preserves the meaning of civil rights. Also, it would prohibit the bizarre existing situation that private bounty hunters, working for bail bondsmen, are able to ignore all civil rights ...
There has been almost endless debate about the meaning of the images in Guernica. When questioned about its possible symbolism, Picasso said, “It isn’t up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise, it would be better if he wrote them out in words. The public who look at the pic...
I say to you today, my friends. And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We ...
Contemporary Meaning In a contemporary U.S. context, the phrase "civil liberties" generally brings to mind the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a progressive advocacy and litigation organization that has promoted the phrase as part of its efforts to protect the authority of theU.S. Bill ...