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... and bring disciplinary expertise to pressing social issues. In recent years, the plight of Palestinians has increasingly come to the attention of academic organizations, and some have taken stands, attempting to pass resolutions in opposition to Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Stand with Us . and other...

...Sanjay Barbora The current protests over the government of India’s Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) constitute the most resolute civic resistance to efforts at transforming the country’s political landscape. The government’s need to tamper with the existing laws and procedures for granting...

... in the Darfur crisis, as well as other areas of conflict currently engulfing the country. The essay urges the need to foreground Sudanese voices if a genuine resolution to the country's manifold conflicts is to be pursued. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Salah M. Hassan Darfur and the Crisis...

... of the historical implications of the encounter with multiple, sometimes contradictory logics of politics, art, and culture involves what the author describes as compound consciousness—the willful incorporation and critical resolution of the alienation and fragmented subjectivity produced by the colonial experience...

... relations into legal resolutions. It argues that “outsider” accounts, such as those represented by Robinson's text, are important for framing stories and perspectives that are overlooked by legal accounts of human relations. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Cheryl Suzack The Transposition of Law...

...Carey G. Rickabaugh A Perennial Issue: Some Considerations on a National Constitutional Convention Carey G. Rickabaugh Thirty-two states as of 1985 have passed state legislative resolutions pe­ titioning the United States Congress to call a National Constitutional Amendment Convention to propose...

... until the adoption of the joint resolution admitting Texas in 1845. On this vital question Bagby s position wavered. Welook in vain through his speeches and votes for indications of a strong, cansistent policy, such as we find in Webster, with his firm decla­ rations against the aquisition of slave...

... registered the sentiment of the state is attested by a resolution of the legislature of 1827, which declared that whenever a system is adopted by the general government which does not equally serve the interests of all, then the right rests with any state to question whether the benefits of the Union...

... presided at both Baltimore and Memphis, was again elected president. The rules of the National House of Representatives were adopted, and a general committee on resolutions, consisting of three delegates from each state, was appointed. Voting was to be by states, each state having one vote. In a few words...

... criticisms made of the Continental Congress in The Federalist, a situation which the Founding Fathers attempted to correct by estab­ lishing a bicameral legislature: The Continental Congress had illustrated the evils of a single legislative body. Frequently it had adopted resolutions only to repeal them...

... ecclesiastical assem­ blies expressing opposition to the expansion of our armed forces. And as it became more and more obvious that the aggressors could be restrained only by force, many of the churches passed resolutions which condemned war, with the possible exception of war for the defense of the national...

... (after cooling) a considerable part of sd com­ mittee-men convened and employed Capt. James Jack (of Char­ lotte) to go express to Congress (then in Philadelphia) with a copy of all sd Resolutions and laws, &c &c and a letter to our 3 members there, Richard Caswell, William Hooper & Joseph Hughes...

... (Davidson) held a mass meeting at the Court House* to consider the Clay measures just introduced in Congress, and stated in a resolution that it is the sense of this meeting that the provisions of said resolutions offer as fair and equitable adjustment of the danger­ ous questions as their embarrassing...

... 5, 1937, were much like the ac­ tivities of all recent sessions. The House was in session 154 days, during which time 9,200 bills and resolutions were introduced, and the standing committees made 1,640 reports on bills and resolutions back to the House. The House itself approved over 1,200 bills...

.... On the Assembly devolved the duty of summoning a convention to consider federal relations. In the Senate a group of members hoped to refer to the convention the question of local constitutional reform. Indeed they were able to carry a resolution for a joint committee to investigate the changes that were needed...

... were in session 137 and 187 days, respectively. A total of 384 laws were enacted, of which 219 were public and 165 private. The House passed 795 bills and resolutions; the Senate, 702. Many other bills were given consideration, but never reached the stage of passage by either house. Twenty-one...

... made by a congressional caucus, and in North Carolina presidential electors were nomi­ nated by a caucus of the state legislature. Controversy over the matter reached a climax in the legislature of 1823. Charles Fisher of Rowan introduced resolutions instructing the state s senators and requesting its...

.... The delegation was strong in character but weak in experience in public affairs and not energetic. See DuBose, Yancy, 566, 567. Brewer and Garrett under the names of the above. f Brewer, Alabama, 126. Garrett, Public Men, 723. JJoint Resolution, Acts First called Session, 1861. p. 142. § Joint Resolution Acts...

... the military might which the Caribbean governments lacked; on the other hand, Britain, for fear of world reaction, preferred not 3 The attempt of the Commission of Enquiry in June, 1967, to reconcile the conflicting parties is not called a major attempt at conflict resolution, since the more important Barbados...

... and the rake, though to the specific disadvantage of neither. The normal resolutions at which comic drama arrives are contrac­ tual: lovers marry one another and they do not marry the partners they do not wish to marry. In romantic comedy marriage is the fulfillment of love, and though romantic comedy may...