Inalienable

Author : Annette B. Weiner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520911806

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Inalienable Possessions by Annette B. Weiner Pdf

Inalienable Possessions tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender in an exciting challenge to accepted theories of reciprocity and marriage exchange. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, Annette Weiner investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Reciprocity, she says, is only the superficial aspect of exchange, which overlays much more politically powerful strategies of "keeping-while-giving." The idea of keeping-while-giving places women at the heart of the political process, however much that process may vary in different societies, for women possess a wealth of their own that gives them power. Power is intimately involved in cultural reproduction, and Weiner describes the location of power in each society, showing how the degree of control over the production and distribution of cloth wealth coincides with women's rank and the development of hierarchy in the community. Other inalienable possessions, whether material objects, landed property, ancestral myths, or sacred knowledge, bestow social identity and rank as well. Calling attention to their presence in Western history, Weiner points out that her formulations are not limited to Oceania. The paradox of keeping-while-giving is a concept certain to influence future developments in ethnography and the theoretical study of gender and exchange.

Author : Terrance McConnell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0195350685

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Inalienable Rights by Terrance McConnell Pdf

This book explains what inalienable rights are and how they restrict the behavior of their possessors. McConnell develops compelling arguments to support the inalienability of the right to life, the right of conscience, and a competent person's right not to have medical treatment administered without consent. Yet, surprisingly, he argues that the inalienability of the right to life does not entail that voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide are wrong. This distinctive defense of inalienable rights will appeal to medical ethicists and other applied ethicists, political theorists, and philosophers of law.

Author : Eric Costanzo,Daniel Yang,Matthew Soerens
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781514003053

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Inalienable by Eric Costanzo,Daniel Yang,Matthew Soerens Pdf

Outreach Resource of the Year The American church is at a critical crossroads. Our witness has been compromised, our numbers are down, and our reputation has been sullied, due largely to our own faults and fears. The church's ethnocentrism, consumerism, and syncretism have blurred the lines between discipleship and partisanship. Pastor Eric Costanzo, missiologist Daniel Yang, and nonprofit leader Matthew Soerens find that for the church to return to health, we must decenter ourselves from our American idols and recenter on the undeniable, inalienable core reality of the global, transcultural kingdom of God. Our guides in this process are global Christians and the poor, who offer hope from the margins, and the ancient church, which survived through the ages amid temptations of power and corruption. Their witness points us to refocus on the kingdom of God, the image of God, the Word of God, and the mission of God. The path to the future takes us away from ourselves in unlikely directions. By learning from the global church and marginalized voices, we can return to our roots of being kingdom-focused, loving our neighbor, and giving of ourselves in missional service to the world.

Author : Debra A. Reid
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1603441239

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Seeking Inalienable Rights by Debra A. Reid Pdf

Seeking Inalienable Rights demonstrates that the history of Texans’ quests to secure inalienable rights and expand government-protected civil rights has been one of stops and starts, successes and failures, progress and retrenchment. Inside This Book: "Early Organizing in the Search for Equality African American Conventions in Late Nineteenth-Century Texas"-Alwyn Barr, Texas Tech University "Crucial Decade for Texas Labor: Railway Union Struggles, 1886–1896"-George N. Green, University of Texas at Arlington "Racism and Sexism in Rural Texas: The Contested Nature of Progressive Rural Reform, 1870s–1910s" -Debra A. Reid, Eastern Illinois University "Fighting on the Home Front: The Rhetoric of Woman Suffrage in World War I"-James Seymour, Lone Star College, Cy Fair "Contrasts in Neglect: Progressive Municipal Reform in Dallas and San Antonio"-Patricia E. Gower, University of the Incarnate Word "Religious Moderates and Race: The Texas Christian Life Commission and the Call for Racial Reconciliation, 1954–1968"-David K. Chrisman, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor "Elusive Unity: African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Civil Rights in Houston"-Brian D. Behnken, Iowa State University "Chicanismo and the Flexible Fourteenth Amendment: 1960s Agitation and Litigation by Mexican American Youth in Texas"-Steven Harmon Wilson, Tulsa Community College This insightful discussion will appeal to those interested in African American, Hispanic, labor, and gender history.

Author : R. Q. Public
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781532010460

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Inalienable Rights Versus Abuse by R. Q. Public Pdf

The theme of this book is simple. Everyone is created equal and is born with the rights to live freely and healthfully, to pursue happiness, and to access the common good. Everyone deserves the opportunities to experience these rights. To abuse (mistreat, deceive, violently injure) other people is to violate those rights. No person deserves to be abused. I spent four years formulating plans for and researching the necessity and practicality of integrating this idea into American public policy. Inalienable Rights versus Abuse is the product of that effort. Inalienable Rights versus Abuse exposes the darker side of America in which dwell the bullies, the deceivers, the indifferent hurters, the rights violators. Abusers come in all colors, genders, socio-economic levels, geographic locations, group affiliations, and so forth. This book explains how extensive abuse is in America, why it is a problem, how to recognize abusers, and what the reader can do about them. This book is for those who care enough to improve life in America for everyone. Americans are divided over a number of issues. On one side are those who believe all American citizens deserve opportunities to experience their individual inalienable rights. On the other side are those who support the deprivation of rights opportunities for millions of us. Inalienable Rights versus Abuse explains on which side each of is in relation to a variety of national concerns.

Author : Iras DuBard, MSW
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781456851088

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A Manifesto on the Constitution, Social Contract, and Certain Inalienable Rights by Iras DuBard, MSW Pdf

Our founding fathers rebelled against England because the American Colonies were not being represented. While at the same time, they enslaved a whole race of people. Our Constitution guarantees us the right to pursue our happiness, but it does not guarantee us the right to obtain our happiness. All of the social ills and terrorism that have taken place in America can be traced back to parenting or the lack thereof.

Author : Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM)
Publisher : Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM)
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Enumeration of Inalienable Rights, Form #10.002 by Sovereignty Education and Defense Ministry (SEDM) Pdf

Use this form to litigate in court to defend your rights. Gives you standing without the need to quote federal statutes that you are not subject to anyway as a statutory "non-resident non-person".

Author : Jamie Baxter
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774863452

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Inalienable Properties by Jamie Baxter Pdf

Inalienable Properties explores contrasting approaches to property rights by four Indigenous communities to illustrate how inalienability – restrictions on the ability to buy and sell land – is linked to community leadership and decision-making structures that have long-lasting consequences for communities. Drawing on new research about institutional change in organizational settings, Jamie Baxter explores when and how community leaders have sustained inalienable land rights without turning to either persuasion or coercive force – the two levers of power normally associated with political leadership. He also challenges the view that liberalized land markets are the inevitable result of legal and economic change.

Author : United Nations. Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Jewish-Arab relations
ISBN : OSU:32435079285482

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Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People by United Nations. Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : UOM:39015050307738

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Conference in Support of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062047084

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United Nations African Meeting in Support of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lee C. Bollinger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0199745889

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Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open by Lee C. Bollinger Pdf

Lee Bollinger is one of our foremost experts on the First Amendment--both an erudite scholar and elegant advocate. In this sweeping account, he explores the troubled history of a free press in America and looks toward the challenges ahead. The first amendment guaranteed freedom of the press in seemingly clear terms. However, over the course of American history, Bollinger notes, the idea of press freedom has evolved, in response to social, political, technological, and legal changes. It was not until the twentieth century that freedom of the press came to be understood as guaranteeing an "uninhibited, robust and wide-open" public discourse. But even during the twentieth century, government continually tried to erect barriers: the sedition laws of World War One, the use of libel law, the Pentagon Papers case, and efforts to limit press access to information. Bollinger utilizes this history to explore the meaning of freedom of the press in our globalized, internet-dominated era. As he shows, we have now entered uncharted territory. What does press freedom mean when our news outlets can instantaneously disseminate information throughout the world? When foreign media have immediate access to the American market? Bollinger stresses that even though the law will surely evolve in the coming years, we must maintain our commitment to a press that is "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open," not only in America but everywhere. Given the new ability of foreign media to reach the United States via the Internet and vice versa, it is in America's national interest for press freedoms to expand overseas. While protecting the freedom of the press at home remains a crucial task, the next challenge is to help create a global public forum suitable for an increasingly interconnected world. Part of Oxford's landmark Inalienable Rights series, this book will set the agenda for how we think about the press in the twenty-first century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : NYPL:33433014899789

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Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard A. Posner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199885367

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Not a Suicide Pact by Richard A. Posner Pdf

Eavesdropping on the phone calls of U.S. citizens; demands by the FBI for records of library borrowings; establishment of military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens--many of the measures taken by the Bush administration since 9/11 have sparked heated protests. In Not a Suicide Pact, Judge Richard A. Posner offers a cogent and elegant response to these protests, arguing that personal liberty must be balanced with public safety in the face of grave national danger. Critical of civil libertarians who balk at any curtailment of their rights, even in the face of an unprecedented terrorist threat in an era of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, Posner takes a fresh look at the most important constitutional issues that have arisen since 9/11. These issues include the constitutional rights of terrorist suspects (whether American citizens or not) to habeas corpus and due process, and their rights against brutal interrogation (including torture) and searches based on less than probable cause. Posner argues that terrorist activity is sui generis--it is neither "war" nor "crime"--and it demands a tailored response, one that gives terror suspects fewer constitutional rights than persons suspected of ordinary criminal activity. Constitutional law must remain fluid, protean, and responsive to the pressure of contemporary events. Posner stresses the limits of law in regulating national security measures and underscores the paradoxical need to recognize a category of government conduct that is at once illegal and morally obligatory. One of America's top legal thinkers, Posner does not pull punches. He offers readers a short, sharp book with a strong point of view that is certain to generate much debate. OXFORD'S NEW INALIENABLE RIGHTS SERIES This is inaugural volume in Oxford's new fourteen-book Inalienable Rights Series. Each book will be a short, analytically sharp exploration of a particular right--to bear arms, to religious freedom, to free speech--clarifying the issues swirling around these rights and challenging us to rethink our most cherished freedoms.

Author : G. B. Trudeau
Publisher : Henry Holt & Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0030172217

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"Speaking of Inalienable Rights, Amy ..." by G. B. Trudeau Pdf

Zonker, Uncle Duke, and assorted American, Samoan, and Vietnamese nationals sort out priorities, pretenses, and probabilities in a spree of bicentennialy slanted cartoon strips