...William H. Glasson Copyright © 1908 by Duke University Press 1908 Governor Hughes: A New Type of Executive By William H. Glasson Professor of Economics in Trinity College You re the only governor we ever had, cried an enthusiastic citizen of Brooklyn the other day during the meeting...

...David Y. Thomas Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 The Executive Prerogative in the United States By David Y. Thomas, Professor of History in Hendrix College, Arkansas Although the indictments of the Declaration of Independence were leveled at the English executive, it is very...

...David Y. Thomas Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 The Executive Prerogative in the United States By David Y. Thomas, Professor of History in the University of Florida Part II. 2. The restraint ofindividual libertyand the freedom ofspeech. One of the most highly prized safeguards...

...Alfred Tischendorf Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 Alfred Tischendorf The Assassination of Chief Executives in Latin America* The guards in the National Palace of Guatemala on the evening of September 27, 1957, watched President Carlos Castillo Armas and his wife walk down...

...Ravit Pe'er-Lamo Reichman This essay asks not how literature imagines the death penalty, but how it doesn't—and what this narrative resistance can tell us about our culture's relationship to capital punishment. With the abolition of public executions in England in 1868 (and the last public...

...” in the region to highlight that the efforts to push through neoliberal reforms in the face of popular opposition have expanded the scope of authoritarian rule. However, the strengthening of the executive power further creates antagonisms which are bound to result in the weakening of the state’s institutional...

... of pain and inhumanity. As Hugo perceived, the executioner and the torturer (in French, it is the same word for both: le bourreau) is fundamental to the repressive state. The killing state doesn’t want us to think imaginatively and empathetically about its executions and its executioners...

... as revolutionary consciousness. Finally, I describe how victorious Liberal elites used the trope of race war to criminalize community insurgents, whose leaders were subject to trial, imprisonment, and execution, and stress the importance of linking national political struggles to local-level conflicts...

... race and privilege played out during the planning and execution of the actions. Finally, the author points to the impact that these tuition hikes had on undocumented students in the UC system. Whereas UC president Mark Yudof promised to expand financial aid programs for students of families...

... of northern Iraq, they turned on the long-established religious minorities in the area with tremendous brutality, especially toward the Yazidi religious minority. Huge numbers of men were executed, and women and children were abducted and subjected to sexual violence. In an attempt at systematic destruction...

... to create a demand for an elevation of executive authority that made Bush president in fact as well as law. Suddenly, he was called upon to act as commander in chief and not just to hold the title. Soon he would...

... woven in the minds of the framers with the mode of his election. Of equal importance as the proceedings progressed was the concern expressed by the framers for the establishment of an independent executive free from domination by the legislature and the corollary fear that the President would become...

...Charles Kassel Copyright © 1924 by Duke University Press 1924 Volume XXIII OCTOBER Number 4 The South Atlantic Quarterly Recent Death-Orgies: A Study of Capital Punishment. Charles Kassel Fort Worth, Texas The epidemic of executions in the South, with five negroes at Huntsville, Texas...

... will not permit of the spending of all of the money for which the estimates ask. His duty toward Congress is purely clerical. He has nothing to say as to financial policy. The President, as chief executive, and head of the executive departments has also no voice in the preparation of these esti­ mates...

... in the first premise are distinguished by other facts than that they are exercised by different departments. Cooley says that the judiciary looks to the past, the executive to the present, and the legislative to the future. Blackstone distinguished the legislative power from the judicial by saying...

..., executions in the United States fell from 1999’s all-time high of ninety- eight to forty-two.1 What seemed unimaginable little more than a decade ago, namely, the end of capital punishment...

... both by the sharp political defeats he suffered during his second term and by the more familiar and politically successful expansions of executive authority among his successors. When Cleveland arrived in Washington, his whole prior political train­ ing was executive. As a young assistant district...

... successfully exerted over the national legislature. The need for executive leadership is manifest. Five hundred and thirty-five legislators cannot govern. Nor even to acknowledge a reality publicized as far back as Woodrow Wilson s classic contribution, Congressional Government can the chairmen...

...George V. Taylor Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 SCHOLARSHIP and LEGEND William Henry Hoyt s research on the Ney Controversy George V. Taylor Was Michel Ney, the Napoleonic marshal, executed at Paris in 1815? Or did he die in 1846 as the North Carolina schoolmaster, Peter...

...Stanley Rothman Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 The Decline and Fall of the Labour Party? Stanley Rothman If we are to believe the American press, Hugh Gaitskell and the National Executive Committee of the Labour party won a great victory at last autumn s Blackpool Conference...