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En el presente libro se realiza una presentación de los derechos fundamentales que reconoce y garantiza nuestra Constitución PolÃtica del Estado de 1993. Si bien los derechos desarrollados no son todos los que están reconocidos en nuestra norma suprema, ya que su abordaje excederÃa los lÃmites de un trabajo como el presente, hemos desarrollado los que consideramos tienen un mayor impacto, por su incidencia y recurrencia, en la vida diaria de...
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The Basics of Freedom presents simple explanations of the fundamental principles that provide the foundational structure for the United States government. Breaking down each clause and paragraph, Dr. Bey explicates the natural rights that each citizen has to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and highlights the ideals pertaining to the responsibilities of the government to its citizens and the civic duties of the citizens to the government....
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Rich in information, Motion for Justice: - I Rest My Case shares Brian Vukadinovich's experiences and intimate knowledge of governmental and judicial corruption and what went on behind the scenes in Indiana for years in efforts to take away his freedom and livelihood as a teacher. Motion for Justice: - I Rest My Case, in a straightforward, no-holds-barred style, will open your eyes to government and judicial corruption that you have never before heard...
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Este libro del Grupo de Investigación en Seguridad y Defensa (Gisde) de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, La Fuerza Pública Colombiana en el posacuerdo: reflexiones acerca de su proceso de adecuación, busca contribuir a la reflexión y el debate actual en nuestro paÃs acerca de qué tipo de fuerza pública es la que requerimos en este periodo de posacuerdo con las FARC. Con este objetivo examinamos cuál debe ser el camino más adecuado para...
85) Social Security: The New Rules, Essentials & Maximizing Your Social Security, Retirement, Medicar
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Let's be honest, Social Security can be complicated. Social Security is vital to many people's retirement plans. Yet is so shrouded in uncertainty.
There are so many different rules, income limitations, age requirements, cut-offs, and so on that it can drive a person mad.
Your choices influence the size of your Social Security checks and making mistakes could accidentally shrink them. Understanding how your decisions affect your Social Security...
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¿Mis derechos terminan donde empiezan los de los demás? ¿Es más importante el derecho a la libre circulación que a una vida digna? ¿Qué respuesta ofrece la justicia? Carta abierta sobre la intolerancia entabla un diálogo con aquellos que exigen, por parte del derecho, una respuesta más severa hacia quienes protestan: los que reaccionan ante el maltrato estatal o empresarial, los que se manifiestan por salarios decentes, los que cortan calles...
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Importance of Right to information is growing day to day to bring the transparency in the administration and the governmental works. The Government of India has notified 'The Right to Information Act, 2005', vide the Gazette of India; Extraordinary Part II-Section I, New Delhi, Tuesday, June 21, 2005. This is an Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control...
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Democracy Detained exposes the deplorable secret crimes committed by the Bush administration in their war on terror. Prominent legal activist Barbara Olshansky documents the assault on our constitutional democracy since 9/11, meticulously analyzing the unlawful justifications made by the U.S. government for covert actions at home and abroad. She reports on current shocking practices, from the outsourcing of torture through extraordinary rendition,...
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This book traces brutality, corruption and oppression in major police departments throughout the United States: from the Rodney King beating, caught on videotape in Los Angeles in 1991; corruption in the Albuquerque Police Department; a 62-police vehicle chase in Cleveland which resulted in the deaths of two unarmed suspects; the chokehold death of Eric Harris in Staten Island; the death of Michael Harris in Ferguson, Missouri, and police and civic...
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One of the hallmark features of the post–civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law. But how, precisely, should we understand this notion of colorblindness in the face of enduring racial hierarchy in American society? In Letters of the Law, Sora Y. Han argues that colorblindness is a foundational fantasy of law that not only informs individual and collective ideas of race, but also structures...
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"A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights. Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues, those promises have been proven empty and white feminists have leant on their racial privilege and sense of cultural superiority. Drawing on her...
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"Martin and Bobby follows the lives and final days of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, showing how and where their work intersected and how their initially wary relationship evolved from challenging and testing one another to finally "arriving in the same place" as allies fighting poverty and racism"--
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"A paradigm-shifting investigation of Jim Crow-era violence, the legal apparatus that sustained it, and its enduring legacy, from a renowned legal scholar. If the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn't lynching the law? In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, challenges our understanding of the Jim Crow era by exploring the relationship between...
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In an era of revolutions demanding greater liberties for mankind, Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) was an ardent feminist who spoke eloquently for countless women of her time.
Having witnessed firsthand the devastating results of male improvidence, she assumed an independent role early in life, educating herself and eventually earning a living as a governess, teacher and writer. She was also an esteemed member of the radical intellectual circle...
Having witnessed firsthand the devastating results of male improvidence, she assumed an independent role early in life, educating herself and eventually earning a living as a governess, teacher and writer. She was also an esteemed member of the radical intellectual circle...
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Anne Braden: southern patriot provides a moving, in-depth biography of an organizer and journalist who for a remarkable 60 years participated in the most significant movements for racial and economic justice in this country's most conservative region - the South. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. praised her steadfast activism in support of civil rights and civil liberties, but she was threatened, attacked, indicted and labeled a "Communist agitator"...
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[2016]
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Presents an illustrated biography of the man who spent his life pursuing his dream of equality and peace and was at the forefront of the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1968.
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Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far race relations have progressed, and sadly, how far we have yet to go. Included are "Industrial Education for the Negro" by Booker T. Washington, "The Talented Tenth" by W.E. Burghardt DuBois, "The Disfranchisement of the Negro" by Charles W. Chesnutt, "The Negro...
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The Science of Right has for its object the principles of all the laws which it is possible to promulgate by external legislation. Where there is such a legislation, it becomes, in actual application to it, a system of positive right and law; and he who is versed in the knowledge of this system is called a jurist or jurisconsult (jurisconsultus). A practical jurisconsult (jurisperitus), or a professional lawyer, is one who is skilled in the knowledge...
100) March: Book two
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"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
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