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What did the Constitution mean at the time it was adopted? How should we interpret today the words used by the Founding Fathers? In originalism: a quarter-century of debate, these questions are explained and dissected by the very people who continue to shape the legal structure of our country.
This is a lively and fascinating discussion of an issue that has occupied the greatest legal minds in America, and one that continues to elicit strong reactions...
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More than sixty million people have been victims of genocide in the twentieth century alone, including recent casualties in Bosnia and Rwanda. Herbert Hirsch studies repetitions of large-scale human violence in order to ascertain why people in every historical epoch seem so willing to kill each other. He argues that the primal passions unleashed in the cause of genocide are tied to the manipulation of memory for political purposes. According to Hirsch,...
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El Cabildo Ciudadano es la primera aplicación y adaptación en Colombia de las Conferencias de Consenso, metodología participativa ampliamente usada en el mundo. La guía es resultado de la experiencia adquirida con la ejecución del proyecto "Prototipo de metodología de participación en política pública: conferencia ciudadana en eutanasia infantil (niños, niñas y adolescentes)" (2019-2020). Encontrará en esta guía los fundamentos teóricos,...
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IRB
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[2021]
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"Get the Summary of John Stuart' Mill's On Liberty in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: On Liberty, a philosophical work by John Stuart Mill, published in 1859 discuses ethical system of utilitarianism of the society and the state. In it, Mill advocates the rights of the individual against Society, with special emphasis to the importance of individuality. The main focus of this book is...
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Regnery Publishing
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[2014]
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#1 New York Times Bestseller Is America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world? Dinesh D'Souza says these questions are no mere academic exercise. It is the Progressive view that is taught in our schools, that is preached by Hollywood, and that...
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Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is perhaps the most important and influential book on the subject ever written. This volume is the result of an effort to weld into a readable form the bulk of almost forty years' thought, observation and research on the subject of socialism. The problem of democracy forced its way into the place it now occupies in this volume because it proved impossible to state my views on the relation between the...
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This book provides actionable solutions to many of the problems facing the world today, and it all starts with direct democracy - online voting. This revolutionary system of government aims to take the power away from short-sighted and self-serving politicians and give the final decision making ability to the masses. We can, and must, keep evolving democracy to what is possible in this technological age and truly give the power to the people. The...
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Dover Publications
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"Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. The State and Revolution is Lenin's most significant work, in which he totally rejects the institutions of Western democracy and presents his vision of the final perfection of Communism. For anyone who seeks to understand the...
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HarperCollins
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In the vein of Jonah Goldbergs Liberal Fascism comes a scathing and reasoned critique of the politics of liberal compassionand why liberals lack of interest in the results of their policies renders them unfit to govern. For decades, conservatives have chafed at being called heartless and uncaring by liberals, without ever challenging this charge. Instead, theyve spent their time trying to prove that they really do care. Now, political scientist William...
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"From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to support the cause of human freedom. From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history. As a child, she was an eyewitness to a third awakening of freedom, when her hometown...
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Get the Summary of Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt's How Democracies Die in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt examines the erosion of democratic norms and the rise of authoritarian leaders through historical and contemporary examples. The authors highlight the cases of Mussolini, Hitler, and Chávez, where political elites mistakenly believed they could...
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En el marco cultural/político de los Estados Unidos, hay dudas sobre si la victoria de Donald Trump represente el fin de lo políticamente correcto. En cuanto ideología que llegó a extremos fanatizantes, ha quedado, para decirlo en argot criollo, con plomo en el ala.
¿Será el de Trump un populismo diferente al populismo de Obama, pero populismo a fin de cuentas? ¿Será el millonario Trump quien tenga el coraje y la eficacia de romper el cordón...
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Este libro analiza la prematura relevancia de Marx y Freud en América latina, pensadores ajenos a la zona que se convirtieron en inspiración para los acosados activistas, intelectuales, escritores y artistas durante los tiempos de la opresión política y cultural.
Bruno Bosteels presenta diez estudios de casos argumentando que el arte y la literature, la novela, la poesía, el teatro y el cine, más que cualquier folleto o ensayo teórico, nos...
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"A todos aquellos que dudan hoy de la filosofía, a quienes dudan de que el marxismo sea capaz de tomar parte en la filosofía de una manera no arbitraria ni subjetiva, sino justa y eficaz, les digo: ¡Ved qué es lo que sucede a vuestro alrededor! ¡Ved cómo van de rápido las cosas! ¡Ved esas luchas en las cuales se involucran los jóvenes del lado de los ancianos, batallas en las que la teoría marxista sale fortalecida y rejuvenecida! ¡Ved...
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During the Nixon administration impeachment process, in August, 1974, the U.S. Department of Justice deemed it necessary to have, for its own use, a document outlining the historical and legal aspects of impeachment; thus this document. Impeachment is a seldom-visited aspect of American political life; encountered only twice in the past, during the administrations of Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon. (And, 24 years later, Bill Clinton.) This is a...
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Con esta nueva publicación, muy en el espíritu de nuestro Grupo de estudios interdisciplinario sobre paz, conflicto y posconflicto (JANUS), marcamos el acento sobre un hecho fundamental: cómo cualquier proceso político, económico, social y aún afectivo, la paz tiene sus olvidos y olvidados.
Contrario al maniqueísmo radical de algunos sectores reaccionarios que le presentan a la opinión pública la imagen de una paz "perfecta", y quienes no...
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government". That observation was made by our third president, Thomas Jefferson. He also made the statement that "The course of history shows that as government grows, liberty decreases". This book chronicles the steady growth of our government since this nation was founded. It also notes the manner in which that growth has diminished...
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In light of the predatory practices employed by massive corporations some of which are even bigger than nations and their wealthy owners, a movement arose from among the people known as the 99 percent, those who are not among the wealthiest 1 percent of the population. The world watched as members of the Occupy movement poured into the streets, demanding that those responsible for the economic crises faced by the world be held accountable for their...
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El anarquismo fue una ideología que dio respuesta a la sociedad capitalista en el momento más álgido de su desarrollo en el siglo XIX, teniendo en su base una fuerte defensa de la libertad individual que llegaba hasta solicitar la desaparición del Estado. Las ideas libertarias, herederas de tradiciones de lucha antiautoritaria, representaron un nuevo modelo social, organizativo, económico y político que rivalizaba con otras corrientes del movimiento...
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Treinta personas, no todos especialistas pero sí comprometidas con el Chile que queremos, son convocados a "redactar" el articulado de una nueva Constitución.
El resultado expresa los anhelos de la mayoría y la urgencia de las transformaciones necesarias para un nuevo contrato social que los recoja.
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