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TEACH Services, Inc. The Rights of the People
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HardPress Publishing The Rights of the People Containing the Principles and a Demonstration of the Practicability of Universal Suffrage Without Ballot
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Princeton University Press Constitutional Rights and Powers of the People
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 1997 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Laws and Courts section of the American Political Science Association One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997 "The entire package within which these familiar positions take shape is often refreshingly original... There is much in Moore's work that merits attention from constitutional theorists."--Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn, The Law and Politics Book Review "[Moore's] reflections on constitutional law are excellent... This book will be useful to professors of Constitutional Law and possibly to students in courses in advanced studies of the Constitution... Professor Moore's treatment of the Dred Scott decision is especially interesting since it weaves in materials that will not be familiar to many readers."--Robert F. Drinan, Law Books in ReviewTable of ContentsList of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction. Reconceiving Constitutional Politics3Ch. 1Toward Constitutional Citizenship: Official Pronouncements13Ch. 2Toward Constitutional Citizenship: Unofficial Commitments37Ch. 3Acting through Government and Independently66Ch. 4Enumerations and Implications105Ch. 5Problems of Practical Politics152Ch. 6Reconceiving Supreme Powers173Ch. 7Exercising Powers and Securing Rights196Ch. 8Interpretive Autonomy Revisited239Conclusion. We the People: Reflections275Postscript287Index291
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HardPress Publishing An Address to the People of Massachusetts on the Subject of Human Rights
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Rights Retained by the People
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Great War of Monarchy Versus Republicanism of the Sovereignty of One Man or the Few Versus the Sovereignty Equal Rights and Liberties of the People
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iUniverse We the People Our Constitutional Rights
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Young Peoples Perspectives on the Rights of the
Book SynopsisThis special issue highlights the complexity, breadth, and range of topics pertaining to children's rights as a social issue. The contributions included in this issue provide current theory and empirical research addressing the ways in which children and youth conceptualize their need for rights in contexts such as the family, school, community, and greater society. Additionally, the contributions address the implications this research has for policy and practice centered on the rights of children and youth in varying social contexts. As such this issue will be of interest to all those who advocate for young people in a variety of setting, as well as those whose work pertains to bettering the lives children and youth more generally. Focuses on children's and adolescents' conceptions of their rights and responsibilities. Articles utilize the best developmental science and theoretical frameworks to address the tensions and complexities of chTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION. Charting the Landscape of Children’s Rights Martin D. Ruck and Stacey S. Horn. THEORETICAL, CONCEPTUAL, AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS. The Rights of Children, the Rights of Nations: Developmental Theory and the Politics of Children’s Rights Colette Daiute. Regardless of Frontiers: Adolescents and the Human Right to Information Roger J. R. Levesque. Studying Children’s Perspectives on Self-Determination and Nurturance Rights: Issues and Challenges Michele Peterson-Badali and Martin D. Ruck. YOUNG PEOPLE’S VIEWS OF PROTECTION AND PARTICIPATION IN EVERYDAY CONTEXTS. Adolescents’ Perceptions of Rights as Reflected in Their Views of Citizenship Lonnie R. Sherrod. Schooling, Sexuality, and Rights: An Investigation of Heterosexual Students’ Social Cognition Regarding Sexual Orientation and the Rights of Gay and Lesbian Peers in School Stacey S. Horn, Laura A. Szalacha, and Karen Drill. It’s My Body and None of Your Business: Developmental Changes in Adolescents’ Perceptions of Rights Concerning Health Constance A. Flanagan, Michael Stout, and Leslie S. Gallay. CULTURAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON CHILDREN’S RIGHTS. Children’s Nurturance and Self-Determination Rights: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Isabelle D. Cherney and Yee L. Shing. How Adolescents in 27 Countries Understand, Support, and Practice Human Rights Judith Torney-Purta, Britt Wilkenfeld, and Carolyn Barber. Adolescents’ Approach toward Children’s Rights: Comparison among Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Children in Jerusalem Mona Khoury-Kassabri and Asher Ben-Arieh. COMMENTARY. Beyond Balancing: Toward an Integrated Approach to Children’s Rights Gary B. Melton. 2007 KURT LEWIN AWARD ADDRESS. Introduction to Kay Deaux’s Lewin Award Address Brenda N. Major. To Be an American: Immigration, Hyphenation, and Incorporation Kay Deaux
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Hardpress Publishing An Appeal to the People in Behalf of Their Rights as Authorized Interpreters of the Bible 1
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Cambridge University Press Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
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HardPress Publishing The Right of the People to Establish Forms of Government Mr Halletts Argument in the Rhode Island Causes Before the Supreme Court of the United States January 1848 1
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James Currey The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
Book SynopsisLandmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Documents on one side the international community's inability to foist a human rights system upon Africa and on the other the process within the OAU (now African Union) that eventually brought it into being and determined its content. The African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), which was proposed in 1979, adopted in 1981 and came into effect in 1986, was the first non-Western declaration of human rights and the first official statement of an African human rights perspective. With Africa largely absent in 1948 when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted, it stands in stark historical reproach to the Western conception of universal human rights as a pivotal document in the decolonisation of the continent. This book, for the first time, presents a comprehensive account of the development of the ACHPR, which is key to a proper understanding of its fundamental nature. Through documenting its process of construction, it becomes possible to understand how Africans themselves understood the process and the issues involved and how the ACHPR became a political text asserted by African leaders and not a continuum of a so-called universal human rights tradition. The result is a radical repositioning of the underlying context of the ACHPR, one of the most important documents in modern African history, of how it came to be and how it should therefore be understood. Volume 2 describes the process through which the ACHPR came into being. Analysing the role of Western governments, the UN and NGOs, it shows that, contrary to the prevailing view of African human rights commentators, their influence was limited and at times counter-productive. That, in fact, the formulation of the ACHPR was a profoundly political process that was primarily a product of an African desire to instigate its own human rights perspective as a counter to the human rights universalism advanced by the Western post-war human rights tradition.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART THREE: THE INFLUENCE OF OUTSIDERS 1. The outsiders - Western governments, the UN and NGOs Western governments - The USA, UK and France The United Nations Non-Governmental Organisations The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) PART FOUR: THE POLITICAL PROCESS 2. The Insiders - the Political Process of the ACHPR The Commonwealth human rights initiative The gestation and birth of Decision 115 The 1979 UN Monrovia Seminar The drafting process Postscript: Ratification, implementation and compliance 3. The Text Title Preamble Part I Rights and Duties Part II Measures of Safeguard Part III General Provisions Conclusion APPENDICES Appendix 1: The OAU Charter Appendix 2: The ACHPR
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Peoples Republic of China: Human Rights Issues &
Book SynopsisHuman rights conditions in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) remain a central issue in U.S.-China ties. Different perceptions of human rights are an underlying source of mutual misunderstanding and mistrust. Frictions on human rights issues affect other issues in the bilateral relationship, including those related to economics and security. Chinas weak rule of law and restrictions on information affect U.S. companies doing business in the PRC. People-to-people exchanges, particularly educational and academic ones, are often hampered by periodic Chinese government campaigns against Western values. For many U.S. policymakers, human rights conditions in China represent a test of the success of overall U.S. policy toward the PRC. Some analysts contend that the U.S. policy of cultivating diplomatic, economic, and cultural ties with China has failed to promote meaningful political reform, and that without fundamental progress in this area, mutual trust and cooperation in other areas will remain difficult to achieve. The U.S. government has employed an array of efforts and tactics aimed at promoting democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in China, although their effects have been felt primarily along the margins of the PRC political system. Many analysts have observed that Chinas leaders have become less responsive to international pressure on human rights in recent years. This book examines human rights issues in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), including ongoing rights abuses, and legal developments.
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Cambridge University Press The Right of SelfDetermination of Peoples
Book SynopsisThe right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. But it also harbors the danger of state fragmentation that can threaten international stability if claims of self-determination lead to secessions. Covering both the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century independence movements in the Americas and the twentieth-century decolonization worldwide, this book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples. It addresses the political contexts in which the right and concept were formulated and the practices developed to restrain its potentially anarchic character, its inception in anti-colonialism, nationalism, and the labor movement, its instrumentalization at the end of the First World War in a formidable duel that Wilson lost to Lenin, its abuse by Hitler, the path after the Second World War to its recognition as a human right in 1966, and its Trade Review'Ranging authoritatively and easily over disciplines, periods and regions, combining deep historical and legal insights with detailed commentary and crisp and informed judgment, Professor Fisch's book provides us with a rich and original global history of self-determination. Self-determination will continue to be a subject of debate and ongoing controversy. But this masterful work will be an indispensable reference point for all such discussions.' Antony Anghie, University of Utah'This is an ambitious and yet elegantly composed study of a complex notion. Dr Jörg Fisch combines a conceptual analysis of the notion of 'self-determination' and cognate expressions with a dense chronology of illustrations of their uses in international practice. Highlighting the contrast between the irreducible idealism and the political instrumentality of self-determination, Fisch produces a powerful explanation for the surprising persistence of a notion that is full of paradoxes and yet indispensable in modern political life.' Martti Koskenniemi, University of HelsinkiTable of ContentsPrologue: national unity and secession in the symbolism of power; Introduction: a concept and ideal; Part I. Theory of Self-Determination: 1. Individual self-determination; 2. Collective self-determination; 3. The people; 4. Self-determination and the right of self-determination; Part II. Self-Determination in Practice: 5. The early modern period in Europe: precursors of a right of self-determination?; 6. The first decolonization and the right to independence: the Americas, 1776–1826; 7. The French Revolution and the invention of the plebiscite; 8. From the European Restoration to the First World War, 1815–1914; 9. The First World War and the peace treaties, 1918–23; 10. The interwar period, 1923–39; 11. The Second World War: the perversion of a great promise; 12. The Cold War and the second decolonization, 1945–89; 13. After 1989: the quest for a new equilibrium; Epilogue: the right of the weak.
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Cambridge University Press The African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights
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PM Press We The People: Stories from the Community Rights
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Legare Street Press A Full Vindication of the Peoples Right to Elect Their Own Pastors
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Creative Media Partners, LLC The Great War of Monarchy Versus Republicanism of the Sovereignty of One Man or the Few Versus the Sovereignty Equal Rights and Liberties of the People
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Hardpress Publishing Defence of the Rights of the Christian People in the Appointment of Ministers from the Constitutional Standards and History of the Church of Robertsons Observations on the Veto Act 1
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HardPress Publishing The Peoples Right Defended Being an Examination of the Romish Principle of Withholding the Scriptures from the Laity Together With a Discussion of Some Other Points in the Romish Controversy
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HardPress Publishing The Headship of Christ And the Rights of the Christian People a Collection of Essays Historical and Descriptive Sketches and Personal Portraitures With the Authors Celebrated Letter to Lord Brougham
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James Currey The African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights 2
Book SynopsisLandmark study of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, one of the most important documents in modern African history, that positions it within the African Lives Matter struggle to assert an African identity rather than as simply a human rights document. Describes its underlying African origins and how the principles of the OAU influenced its path and content.
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HardPress Publishing The Headship of Christ and the Rights of the Christian People
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Wits University Press We, the people: Insights of an activist judge
Book SynopsisThe stirring collection of essays, talks and extracts by activists and former judge Albie Sachs marks more than 25 years of thinking about constitution making and non-racialism. Following the Constitutional Court's landmark Nkandla ruling in March 2016, it serves as a powerful reminder of the tenets of the Constitution, the rule of law and the continuous struggle to uphold democratic rights and freedoms.We, the People offers an intimate, insider's view of South Africa's Constitution by a writer who has been deeply entrenched in its historical journey from the depths of apartheid right up to the politically contested present. As a second-year law student at the University of Cape Town, Sachs took part in the Defiance Campaign and went on to attend the Congree of the People in Kliptown, where the Freedom Charter was adopted in 1955. Three decades later, shortlu after the bomb attack in Maputo that cost him his arm and the sight in one eye, he was called on by the Constitutional Committee of the African National Congress to co-draft (with Kader Asmal) the first outline of a Bill of Rights for a new democratic South Africa. In 1994, he was appointed by Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Court, where he served as a judge until 2009.We, the People consists of some of Sachs' most memorable public talks and writings, in which he takes us back to the broad-based popular foundations of the Constitution inthe Freedom Charter. He picks up on Oliver Tambo's original vision of a non-racial future for South Africa, rather than one based on institutionalised power-sharing between the races. He explores the tension between perfectability and corruptibility, hope and mistrust, at the centre of all the constitutions. Sachs deals with the enforcement of social and economic rights and the building of the Constitutional Court in the heart of the Old Forst Prison as a mechanism for reconciling the past and the future.Subjective experience and objective analysis interact powerfully in a personalised narrative that reasserts the value of constitutionality not just for South Africans, but for people striving to advance human dignity, equality and freedom across the planet today.Trade ReviewSachs displays an acute awareness of the potency of history, reflecting on archives and their shortcomings, and the promotion of national unity through the teaching of a common past. Similarly engrossing are his reflections on the symbolic conversion of a former prison complex into the Constitutional Court, and attempts to address the spatial geography of apartheid. - Nick Branson is Senior Researcher at Africa Research Institute and a PhD candidate at SOAS, University of London.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; I. Initiation; The Future of Multiculturalism in South Africa: The vision of the Constitution; The Original 'Pinch-me' Moment; II. Hope and caution in exile; The First and Last Word - Freedom; III. We have to mistrust ourselves; Preparing Ourselves for Power; Perfectibility and Corruptibility; IV. Inventing a constitution; South Africa's Unconstitutional Constitution: The transition from power to lawful power; V. With clean hands and without Secrets; Why I Supported Amnesty; Meeting the Man Who Organized a Bomb in My Car; Soft Vengeance; VI. Reconciling the past and the future; Archives, Truth and Reconciliation; The Place Next Door to Number Four; Free Spirits and Ravaged Souls; Towards the Liberation and Revitalisation of Customary Law; Values, Nation Formation and Social Compacting; VII. Living constitutional law and ubuntu; Constitutional Court Simulation, Case No.2: The constitutionality of the death penalty; A New African Jurisprudence: From abstract judicial rulings to; purposive transformative jurisprudence; Equality Jurisprudence; VIII. More than crumbs from the table: Enforcing social and economic rights; Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Bringing human solidarity back into the rights equation; IX. Struggle continues; Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability; From Refugee to Judge on Refugee Law; A Conversation About the Sacred and the Secular: Same-sex marriage; Getting the Last Laugh on Rhodes; X. Are the beautiful people born?; United in Diversity; Are the Beautiful People Born?; Cases Cited; Sources.
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iUniverse We The People Too
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Cambridge University Press The African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights The System in Practice 19862006
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Straightforward Publishing The Rights Of Disabled People
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Oxford University Press The Rise and Fall of the Peoples Parties
Book SynopsisThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.Across Europe, people are deeply concerned about the state of democracy. The Rise and Fall of the People''s Parties shifts the attention away from ever-changing populist politicians that capture newspaper headlines to the centre-left and centre-right people''s parties that used to buttress the democratic order over the past decades, but which are now in steep decline. Why does the crisis of these parties contribute so profoundly to today''s crisis of democracy? And why were these parties so important for the stabilization and legitimation of democracy in the past century in the first place?By providing a long-term and transnational account of the history of democracy in modern Europe, The Rise and Fall of the People''s Parties reveals the striking parallels between the hist
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United Nations State of the world's indigenous peoples: rights to lands, territories and resources
Book SynopsisThis publication offers a wide-ranging perspective on indigenous peoples' rights to lands, territories and resources, examining legislation and agreements at the national and international level, identifying successful practices and continued obstacles, and suggesting ways forward. Adopted in 2007, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples positions the right to self-determination and collective rights to lands, territories and resources at its core. Previously two of the most politically charged issues under negotiation, the right to self-determination and the right to natural resources on indigenous lands and territories remain politicized more than 10 years later. Specifically addressed in Articles 25 through 32, indigenous peoples' relationship to their land, territory and resources is at the heart of their identity, well-being and culture, while preservation of the environment, transmitted through generations of traditional knowledge, is at the centre of their existence. The importance of indigenous knowledge and territorial rights is becoming more widely acknowledged. Moreover, the 2030 Agenda's integrated approach to economic, environmental and social development within a human rights framework gives space to demonstrate how indigenous stewardship of lands, territories and resources can achieve accelerated action towards implementation of several Sustainable Development Goals
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Agenda Publishing Righting the Economy: Towards a People's Recovery
Book SynopsisHuman rights and economics are not often spoken about in the same breath. Yet increasingly, human rights actors are calling for a shift towards a rights-based or human-rights economy. One that puts the economy truly at the service of communities contending with extreme social and economic inequality, climate catastrophe and corporate abuses. The economies we live in structure our daily experiences and represent systems which can profoundly affect our ability to enjoy our rights to decent work, adequate healthcare, political participation, freedom from violence and more. This book systematizes academic and practitioners’ analyses and experiences, drawing from different epistemologies, literatures and case studies, to flesh out what a rights-based economy would look like, and the tools and actions – economic, legal, environmental and social – needed to get there.Trade ReviewThis stimulating book calls for the disruption of the forces that produce economies that manifestly fail to fulfil human rights and the reassembly of economies that will fulfil these rights, drawing on human rights norms and institutions, and a wide range of innovative ideas about economic alternatives. It offers new thinking for both practitioners and academics and will be indispensable reading for courses on human rights, political economy, and social and economic policy. -- Diane Elson, Emeritus Professor, University of Essex and Chair, Commission on a Gender Equal EconomyThe human rights framework is not fixed or uniform; it is dynamic and designed to adapt in response to the diverse assertions and perceptions of injustice among us as human beings. The contributions to this book push the agenda forward to keep thinking and enabling human rights to effectively address the ever-growing and pressing demands of the current moment. -- Radhika Balakrishnan, Professor of Women's and Gender and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers UniversityTable of ContentsForeword by Tomás Pascual Ricke, Ambassador and Director of Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile Human Rights Economy for People and the Planet: Framing the Contours of an Approach, Jyoti Sanghera 1. Introduction: what it means to “right the economy” and why we need it now Marianna Leite and Matti Kohonen Part I Framing the economy 2. Towards a Rights-Based Economy: post-growth economics and the future of welfare Olivier De Schutter 3. The Center for Economic and Social Rights’ journey to advance a rights-based economy Center for Economic and Social Rights 4. Business and human rights: from “tokenism” to “centring” rights and rightsholders Surya Deva and Harpreet Kaur 5. A human rights economy approach as the basis for a global fiscal architecture Attiya Waris 6. Macroeconomic policy and development agenda for a Rights-Based Economy Pedro Rossi 7. Financial complicity and human rights: exploring the legal and policy landscape of responsibility for sovereign debt Celine Tan and Rafael Quintero Godinez Part II Transforming the economy 8. Illicit financial flows, tax havens and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Asha Ramgobin 9. Social and solidarity economy as an alternative economy for the protection of human rights Ilcheong Yi 10. Judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights as a way to challenge neoliberalism: post-2008 austerity in Europe Kári Hólmar Ragnarsson 11. Health and human rights: what are the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic? Jasmine Gideon and Kate Bayliss 12. From recovery to transformation? Assessing Argentina’s Covid-19 economic response through a feminist lens Magalí Brosio and Edurne Cárdenas 13. A feminist and decolonial global Green New Deal: principles, paradigms and systemic transformations Bhumika Muchhala 14. Conclusion: “righting the economy” and building on plural and decolonial models to curtail the effects of negative corporate practice Matti Kohonen and Marianna Leite
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples Collected Essays and Speeches
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Fordham University Press The Peoples Right to the Novel
Book SynopsisThis study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa and argues for the genre’s distinct contribution to the literary culture of the continent. The war novel is a form of people’s history that participates in a political struggle for the rights of the dispossessed.Trade Review"Tackling the difficult and urgent issue of wars in Africa and their representation by insider-authors, Coundouriotis's text will provoke debate and raise interest in a rich but still under-researched field of study by means of wide ranging, trenchant analyses." -- -Annie Gagiano Professor Emeritus, Stellenbosch University "In powerful readings of a vast literature of war in Africa, with impeccable scholarship and painstaking attention to historical detail, Eleni Coundouriotis has reconstructed a history of the African novel from below, a history that puts "the people" and their political and literary claims of rights to representation--both in the postcolonial state and its national literature--at the center of the story. The book adds vital new perspectives on the interdependent developments of humanitarian thinking and Naturalism, adding necessary nuance to our understanding of the relationships among literature, human rights, and humanitarianism." -- -Joseph R. Slaughter Columbia University "Eleni Coundouriotis's latest book so exudes theoretical newness that one reads even the bibliography with pencil at the ready." -African Affairs "The People's Right to the Novel combines a clear thesis with a painstaking and perceptive discussion of the individual authors and their works." -- -Wendy Griswold Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Naturalism, Humanitarianism, and the Fiction of War 1. "No Innocents and No Onlookers": The Uses of the Past in the Novels of Mau Mau 2. Toward a People's History: The Novels of the Nigerian Civil War 3. "Wondering Who the Heroes Were": Zimbabwe's Novels of Atrocity 4. Contesting the New Authenticity: Contemporary War Fiction in Africa Afterword Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Human Rights State
Book SynopsisThe nation state operates on a logic of exclusion: no state can offer citizenship and legal rights to all comers. From the logic of exclusion a state derives its sovereign power. Yet this exclusivity undermines the project of advancing human rights globally. That project operates on a logic of inclusion: all people, regardless of citizenship status or territorial location, would everywhere be recognized as bearers of human rights. In practice, human rights are afforded, if at all, then only to citizens of those few states that sometimes regard human rights as moral necessities of domestic commitments—or for states that find that stance politically expedient for the moment.This discouraging reality in the first decades of the twenty-first century prompts the question: What political arrangement might better conduce the local embrace and enduring practice of human rights? In The Human Rights State, Benjamin Gregg challenges the conviction that the nation state can oTrade Review"The Human Rights State is an important work of political imagination. This is a compliment to the author and an evaluation of the book's argument. In prose, both light and evocative Benjamin Gregg asks us to rethink human rights as a freestanding moral ideal to which we should aspire." * Contemporary Political Theory *"The book challenges some of the mystifications associated with human rights, characterising them as mundane achievements of political action by ordinary people. It develops a model of human rights as grounded in local contexts and legitimated on this basis, as well as because their conditions of success depend on persuasion rather than coercion. It is engagingly written, presenting an attractive account of how we-as concerned individuals-might begin to move from a world of widespread human rights violations to one in which human rights are widely, if variously, recognised." * Australian Journal of Politics and History *"A pragmatic sensibility underlies Gregg's constructivist proposals for a nonideal politics aimed at addressing ways in which actually existing states violate or erect barriers to human rights . . . .One of the many great strengths of Gregg's account is its positive, politically astute, and cautiously hopeful tone." * The Review of Politics *"The Human Rights State is a compelling contribution to the theory of human rights, ranging from the ontology of such rights to the theoretical articulation of their international and local practice." * Kelvin Knight, London Metropolitan University *"The Human Rights State makes a significant contribution to current debates about both the theory and practice of human rights. It will be of interest to philosophers, political theorists, legal scholars, and activists from across the political spectrum." * Martin Woessner, The City College of New York *Table of ContentsIntroduction. A Project for the Free Embrace of Human Rights Part I. THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE: POLITICS BY METAPHOR Chapter 1. Human Rights as Metaphor Chapter 2. Human Rights in a Backpack Chapter 3. The Body as Human Rights Boundary PART II. THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE THROUGH PERSUASION, NOT COERCION Chapter 4. Teaching Human Rights as a Cognitive Style Chapter 5. Developing Human Rights Commitment in Post-Authoritarian Societies Chapter 6. Digital Technology as Resource for the Human Rights Project PART III. DEFENSE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS STATE IN THE FACE OF CHALLENGES Chapter 7. Human Rights Patriotism Chapter 8. A Human Right Not to Democracy but to the Rule of Law Chapter 9. Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention Coda: A Community of Nation States Practicing Domestic Cosmopolitanism Notes References Index Acknowledgments
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HardPress Publishing The Headship of Christ and the Rights of the Christian People
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United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Book SynopsisThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the first international agreement setting out freedoms, rights and entitlements for all humanity to claim. It emphasizes the inextricable relationship between fundamental freedoms and social justice, and their connection with peace and security. The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping the UDHR constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
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United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Russian
Book SynopsisThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the first international agreement setting out freedoms, rights and entitlements for all humanity to claim. It emphasises the inextricable relationship between fundamental freedoms and social justice, and their connection with peace and security. The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping the UDHR constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
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HardPress Publishing The Anarchy of a Limited or Mixed Monarchy. Or a Succinct Examination of the Fundamentals of Monarchy Both in This and Other Kingdoms as Well About the Right of Power in Kings as of the Originall or Naturall Liberty of the People a Question
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The New Press The People’s Constitution: 200 Years, 27
Book SynopsisThe 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution—the product of compromises and an artifact of its time—and made it more democratic Who wrote the Constitution? That’s obvious, we think: fifty-five men in Philadelphia in 1787. But much of the Constitution was actually written later, in a series of twenty-seven amendments enacted over the course of two centuries. The real history of the Constitution is the astonishing story of how subsequent generations have reshaped our founding document amid some of the most colorful, contested, and controversial battles in American political life. It’s a story of how We the People have improved our government’s structure and expanded the scope of our democracy during eras of transformational social change. The People’s Constitution is an elegant, sobering, and masterly account of the evolution of American democracy. From the addition of the Bill of Rights, a promise made to save the Constitution from near certain defeat, to the post–Civil War battle over the Fourteenth Amendment, from the rise and fall of the “noble experiment” of Prohibition to the defeat and resurgence of an Equal Rights Amendment a century in the making, The People’s Constitution is the first book of its kind: a vital guide to America’s national charter, and an alternative history of the continuing struggle to realize the Framers’ promise of a more perfect union.Trade ReviewPraise for The People's Constitution:“With a focus on the people and strategies that changed a nation by changing its Constitution, the book offers an insightful and captivating description of the country’s popular movements and the incredible challenges posed by the amendment process.”—Caroline Fredrickson, Washington Monthly “Readers at all levels interested in the Constitution’s history and future should find this work thoughtful and instructive.”—Library Journal “Legal scholars Kowal and Codrington debut with a rigorous yet accessible history of how the U.S. Constitution has been made ‘more democratic, more inclusive, and more responsive to the needs of a changing country’ through its amendments. . . . Incisive character profiles, brisk historical sketches, and lucid analyses of legal and political matters make this a fresh and invigorating take on the history of American democracy.”—Publishers Weekly“I’ve been waiting for someone to write this book for a long time. Professors Kowal and Codrington have done a remarkable public service by showing America what our Constitution really means and how it has come about. It is hard to think of a more patriotic act of scholarship than what is contained in these pages.”—Congressman Jamie Raskin“The People’s Constitution is a fascinating story of how we changed our founding document through the difficult amendment process. It’s also a reminder that since 1787, popular movements have led the country to embrace democratic innovation and push through changes that made our nation more just and more equal—and our governing process more broadly participatory.”—E.J. Dionne Jr., author of Our Divided Political Heart and co-author of 100% Democracy “A carefully researched deep dive into America’s founding document and its amendments, The People’s Constitution injects color and life into constitutional history. At a time when so much of the American experiment seems precarious, The People’s Constitution is an urgent and necessary reminder of the promise—and challenges—of sustaining a government for and by the people.”—Melissa Murray, Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, New York University School of Law“Kowal and Codrington forcefully remind us that the Constitution must be understood not as it was written in 1787, but through the lens of how it has been amended.”—Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley School of Law “A fine, accessible overview of American constitutional development . . . at once inspiring and chastening, underscoring the importance of establishing a true ‘People’s Constitution’ that responds to the new challenges that emerge over time.”—Sanford Levinson, co-author (with Cynthia Levinson) of Fault Lines in the Constitution“The People’s Constitution . . . helps us understand that, whether for good or ill, the expressions of popular will through constitutional amendments may well alter the course of American democracy in the 21st century.”—Russ Feingold, president, American Constitution Society, and former U.S. senator from Wisconsin“A crucial antidote to the spurious claim that the Constitution is frozen in time . . . the authors make it possible for us to imagine and embrace a struggle for a Fourth Founding in our time, rooted in social justice.”—Burt Neuborne, Norman Dorsen Professor of Civil Liberties at NYU and author of When at Times the Mob Is Swayed and Madison’s Music
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Empire of the People Settler Colonialism and the
Book SynopsisExamines the ideological development of American democratic thought in the context of settler colonialism, a distinct form of colonialism aimed at the appropriation of Native land rather than the exploitation of Native labour. In its focus on the disavowal of Native dispossession in democratic thought, the book provides a new perspective on the problematic relationship between race and democracy.Trade ReviewEmpire of the People is a capacious tour de force. In a sweeping historical account, Dahl illuminates the violent structure of settler colonialism in the United States. The chapters explore, and powerfully unsettle, prevailing assumptions in American political thought, vividly taking stock of the narratives of native absence that underpin the democratic thought in the west. The book is an impressive contribution to the florescence of counter-narratives that are preparing new ground for an urgent and emergent political theory of decolonization."" - Alexander Keller Hirsch, associate professor of political science, University of Alaska""What if the foundation of democracy is not ‘the people’ but the dispossession of land from its rightful inhabitants? Adam Dahl transforms our understandings of American political thought, showing how it deliberately ignores Native American presence and practices. Dahl deftly illuminates how democratic theory—from Jefferson to Tocqueville to Emerson—cannot be separated from its settler-colonial roots. By turning to the Pequot theorist William Apess, Dahl identifies a solution—to take indigenous thinking and nations seriously as alternative, equal nations."" - Kennan Ferguson, director of the Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee""What is the relation between democracy and colonial dispossession? Adam Dahl critically examines this question through a close study of democratic theory in nineteenth-century Anglo-America. Bringing together familiar figures such as Emerson, Whitman, and Tocqueville with a complex array of lesser known texts and authors, Dahl expertly demonstrates how the US tradition of democratic thought was forged in and through the systematic expropriation of indigenous peoples from their ancestral lands. Most important and innovative, however, is his serious engagement with indigenous political thinkers, including William Apess, Black Hawk, and Elias Boudinot, who laid bare the paradoxes of this ‘democracy dispossession.’ As such, Empire of the People functions as both contribution to, and indictment of, American political thought."" - Robert Nichols, McKnight Land-Grant Professor in Political Theory and assistant professor of political science at the University of MinnesotaTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Settler Colonial Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought Part One: Federalism and Empire 1. From Colonial Dependence to Imperial Equality 2. The Coloniality of Constituent Power Part Two: Settler Colonialism and Democratic Culture 3. Colonial Dispossession and the Settler Social State 4. Manifest Destiny and the Safety Valve of Colonization 5. Slavery and the Empire of Free Soil Part Three: Unsettling Democracy 6. William Apess and the Paradox of Settler Sovereignty Afterword: Decolonizing the Democratic Tradition Notes Bibliography Index
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United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Arabic
Book SynopsisThe Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is the first international agreement setting out freedoms, rights and entitlements for all humanity to claim. It emphasizes the inextricable relationship between fundamental freedoms and social justice, and their connection with peace and security. The General Assembly of the United Nations proclaims this Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping the UDHR constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.
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International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples: A Handbook
Book SynopsisA collection of fundamental information on the possibilities and limitations of the United Nations action in the field of human rights. The book gives detailed description of the existing international mechanisms for prevention and compensation of serious violations of the fundamental rights of indigenous peoples.
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Stanford University Press The Rise and Fall of Human Rights
Book SynopsisExplores the dialectic of cynicism and hope and the role of human rights in the production of rule in the occupied Palestinian territories.Trade Review"In this significant book, Lori Allen tackles the rise of professionalized advocacy NGOs in Palestine in a crescendo manner . . . By offering new material on training for Palestinian police forces and by studying without preconceptions the ways in which Hamas, the Islamist party in power, has embraced a certain vision of human rights, Lori Allen provides the best material for her central claim . . . [T]he book culminates with rich and stimulating material, and Allen is to be congratulated for the innovative ways in which she approaches human rights, in contrast to culturalist arguments which deny any existence or relevance of local engagements with these principled beliefs."—Benoit Challand, Journal of Anthropological Research"Allen makes incisive comments on the comparative nature of sovereignty and popular discontent in countries ranging from India to Turkey to Chile . . . [This book] presents varied Palestinian perspectives on human rights within the framework of scholarship on the state and sovereignty, an approach rarely considered by historians. Aimed at anthropologists, this study can serve as a valuable addition to advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in Middle East history."—Charles D. Smith, American Historical Review"The book is a breath of fresh air in the context of a human rights literature dominated by unrealistic and optimistic assessments of human rights actions and campaigns which fail to acknowledge that human rights movements have changed little despite their institutionalization, legitimation, and international funding. Human rights organizations produce reports, diagnostics, and participate in public policy design while people's lives remain the same. The most important contribution of the book is that, although it talks about Palestine, it recognizes a general pattern of development in contemporary national human rights movements. As Allen rightly claims, the book can serve to illustrate the evolution of the human rights movement more broadly since the case of Palestine is both unique and quite representative of this trend."—Ariadna Estévez, Social Anthropology"In her exceptional book, The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine, anthropologist Lori Allen explores a complex set of interlocking themes about the role of human rights in the Palestinian nationalist agenda, viewed through the prism of cynicism . . . This book is a must read—with relevance far wider than the case of Palestine."—Deena R. Hurwitz, Middle East Journal"A significant contribution to our understanding of Palestinian politics and the global human rights movement. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been analyzed over and over again, but Lori Allen finds a genuinely new angle. This book achieves a rare balance of shedding light on recent events in the Middle East while producing thought-provoking arguments for understanding the potentials and limitations of human rights claims in situations of prolonged armed conflict."—Tobias Kelly, University of Edinburgh"The idiom of human rights now pervades Palestinian ideas of who they are and what they hope to be. This eye-opening book explores how, between the friction of disappointment and hope, human rights values might still generate more viable means to build a common world. A profound reflection on the dominant discourse of emancipation in our times."—Jean Comaroff, Harvard University"This powerfully argued book provides a welcome perspective on the 'human rights industry' in occupied Palestine. It constitutes a valuable contribution to the study both of a key example of the global discourse of human rights, and of the worsening situation of the Palestinians after nearly two decades of dual control by Israel and the Palestinian Authority."—Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University"Lori Allen offers a powerful and unsparing analysis of the fragmented human rights world in the West Bank and Gaza, arguing that human rights work can only promote social justice when it is situated within, and informed by, a broader political vision and national project—something that still eludes Palestinians. Her critique contains within it a vision of the future where social change is indeed possible and where Palestinians and the state that has yet to represent them find common cause."—Sara Roy, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
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Creative Media Partners, LLC An Appeal to the People in Behalf of Their Rights as Authorized Interpreters of the Bible
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Cornell University Press The Peoples Revolution of 1789
Book SynopsisThe People's Revolution of 1789 analyzes the historic events that unleashed a vast panoply of anarchic, destructive, and creative disorders that demolished France's Old Regime and founded a new revolutionary order. It captures the complex and dynamic interplay of uprisings, elections, meetings, and revolutionary moments that helped create modern freedom. The People's Revolution of 1789 is the first book to chronicle the Parisian, provincial, and colonial movements of 1789 together. In doing so, Micah Alpaugh builds from hundreds of local and regional studies and sources on the French Revolution to provide a new interpretation of the powerful contestations that created the modern revolutionary tradition. He explores the multiplicity of movementsanarchistically operating without a common leader and usually in only loose coordinationthat gave the revolutionary dynamic its power, without which the legislators' revolution at Versailles would have failed or been severely curtailed. The rapid onslaught of protests across the First Year of Liberty compounded their effects, overpowering authorities' efforts to maintain a degenerating order and forcing the establishment of a more open system. The People's Revolution of 1789 reveals in new ways how the French revolutionaries ended feudalism, established human rights, abolished the police, and instituted new elected governments. By returning emphasis to the people's revolution, we can better understand how world history's most consequential revolution developed, as millions of French people embraced direct action in hopes of fundamental change. Through the movements of millions, the French created the most powerful revolution the world had yet experienced.
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