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Affirmative Action: The American Struggle for Promised Liberty, The American Pursuit of Equality
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Living originalism /
Table of Contents: “…-- Basic law, higher law, our law -- Constitutional faith and constitutional redemption -- Originalisms -- Precedents and pragmatic exceptions -- Construction -- A platform for persuasion -- Commerce -- Privileges or immunities -- Equality before the law -- Texts and principles -- Change -- Rethinking living constitutionalism -- Change and legitimacy.…”
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I freed myself : African American self-emancipation in the Civil War era /
Table of Contents: “…'Ready to die for liberty': expanding the boundaries of freedom; 4. 'Full equality before the law': claiming the rights of freedom; 5. …”
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Crusaders, gangsters, and whiskey : prohibition in Memphis /
Table of Contents: “…Rise of the white ribbons -- Fall of the saloons -- Rogues' gallery -- Conspiracy -- Tyree Taylor -- Big fish, little fish -- No campaigns -- Equality before the law -- Loopholes -- Ku Klux Klan -- Flaming youth and police characters -- Roadhouses and pig stands -- Liquor and other vices -- King of President's Island -- John Belluomini -- Fall of the liquor barons -- Repeal of the eighteenth amendment -- Prohibition after repeal -- Last bootleggers -- Sin against high heaven.…”
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Sweet liberty : the final days of slavery in Martinique /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sweet liberty : the final days of slavery in Martinique -- "That your hearts will blossom and again become French" : the early Napoleonic period -- "Happy to consider itself an ancient British possession" : the British occupation of Martinique -- "Your French and loyal hearts" : the first decade of the restoration -- "In the colonies, it is impossible that a white would align himself with slaves" : shifts in colonial policy -- "To ensure equality before those laws to free men, whatever their color" : changing ideas of French citizenship -- "Amelioration of the white race" and "the sacred rights of property" : the end of slavery in the French Atlantic.…”
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Sweet liberty : the final days of slavery in Martinique /
Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Sweet liberty : the final days of slavery in Martinique -- "That your hearts will blossom and again become French" : the early Napoleonic period -- "Happy to consider itself an ancient British possession" : the British occupation of Martinique -- "Your French and loyal hearts" : the first decade of the restoration -- "In the colonies, it is impossible that a white would align himself with slaves" : shifts in colonial policy -- "To ensure equality before those laws to free men, whatever their color" : changing ideas of French citizenship -- "Amelioration of the white race" and "the sacred rights of property" : the end of slavery in the French Atlantic.…”
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Government, a public administration perspective /
Table of Contents: “…the societal (Institutional) level: Democracy, between local community and national government; Equality before the law, social justice and the administration of justice; Nightwatch state, external and internal safety; Welfare state, novelty and triumph of the twentieth century --…”
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Principles and values in criminal law and criminal justice : essays in honour of Andrew Ashworth /
Table of Contents: “…-- Community sanctions and European human rights law -- A system of international criminal justice for human rights violations: what is the general justification for its existence? -- Equality before the law and equal impact of sanctions: doing justice to differences in wealth and employment status -- Sentencing women: toward gender equality -- Proportionate sentencing and the rule of law -- Concurrent and consecutive sentences revisited -- "Wrongful acquittals and "unduly lenient" sentences: misconceived problems that provoke unjust solutions.…”
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Syrian Jewry in Transition, 1840-1880
Table of Contents: “…Education-Traditional and Modern; PART III: THE LEGAL STATUS OF THE JEWS; 6. Equality before the Law; 7. The Ra'aya and the Machinery of the Ottoman State; PART IV: MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS, JEWS; 8. …”
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People with disability /
Table of Contents: “…; Willing to work: Australians with disability; Disability and labour force participation; Disability Support Pension eligibility; Education rights for children with disability; Children with disability are being excluded from education; School is not always a safe place for students with disability -- this has to change; Equal before the law? How the criminal justice system is failing people with disability.…”
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The safest shield : lectures, speeches and essays /
Table of Contents: “…Preface ; Acknowledgements ; Contents ; Introduction ; Towards a Constitution; Magna Carta: Luck or Judgement ; William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke ; 1361 and All That ; Authorised Version of the Bible: 'Divine Right' ; 'No Taxation Without Representation': A British Perspective on Constitutional Arrangements ; Continuing Constitutional Concerns; Constitutional Change: Unfinished Business ; Sovereignty: A View from London ; Parliamentary Self-Government ; Henry VIII Clauses ; Assisted Suicide: Moral and Constitutional Issues ; Liberties and Rights; Equality before the Law.…”
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Islam and English law : rights, responsibilities, and the place of Shari'a /
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