Constitution

About: Constitution is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 37828 publications have been published within this topic receiving 435603 citations.

Crafting a Constitution for Afghanistan

Abstract: On 4 January 2004, nearly all 502 members of the Constitutional Loya Jirga (Grand Council) meeting in Kabul silently stood to approve a new constitution for the “Islamic Republic of Afghanistan” President Hamid Karzai signed and officially promulgated the document on 26 January 2004, inaugurating Afghanistan’s sixth constitution since King Amanullah Khan promulgated the first in 1923 Delegates hoped that this relatively liberal Islamic constitution would provide a framework for the long task of consolidating basic state structures, as the country struggled to emerge from decades of anti-Soviet jihad, interfactional and interethnic civil war, and wars of conquest and resistance by and against the radical Islamists of the Taliban movement In his speech to the closing session of the Loya Jirga, President Karzai explained why he thought that the new constitution—which mandated a presidential system with a bicameral parliament, a highly centralized administration with unprecedented rights for minority languages, and an Islamic legal system safeguarded by a Supreme Court with powers of judicial review—would meet the needs of a desperately indigent but proud country searching for a period of stability in which to rebuild The constitution was the next to last step in the road map to “reestablishing permanent institutions of government” outlined in the Bonn Accords of 5 December 2001 Afghans signed that agreement under UN auspices as the United States was completing the job of routing the Taliban regime that had given refuge to Osama bin Laden The constitution provided a framework for the “free and fair elections” to choose a Barnett R Rubin is director of studies and senior fellow at the Center on International Cooperation of New York University In late 2001, he advised UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi during the talks that led to the Bonn Accords Rubin’s books include The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System (2nd ed, 2002)

The law of treason in England in the later middle ages

Abstract: Editor's preface Preface List of abbreviations 1. The medieval concept of treason 2. The treatise writers and the English law of treason at the end of the thirteenth century 3. The origins of the English state trial 4. The great statute of treasons 5. The scope of treason, 1352-1485 6. Treason before the courts, 1352-1485 7. The origins and the early history of the Act of Attainder 8. Treason and the constitution Appendixes Select bibliography Index.

Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson

Abstract: This text studies the attitudes of the founding "fathers" toward slavery. Specifically, it examines the views of Thomas Jefferson reflected in his life and writings and those of other founders as expressed in the Northwest Ordinance, the Constitutional Convention and the Constitution itself, and the fugitive slave legislation of the 1790s. The author contends: slavery fatally permeated the founding of the American republic; the original constitution was, as the abilitionists later maintained, "a covnenant with death"; and Jefferson's anti-slavery reputation is undeserved and most historians and biographers have prettified Jefferson's record on slavery.

The Constitution of Bilingual/ESL Education as a Disciplinary Practice: Genealogical Explorations

Abstract: This article provides a cultural and political critique of the constitution of bilingual/English-as-a-second-language (ESL) education as a disciplinary practice in the case of New Mexico. Using genealogy and postcolonial, post-structural, and critical frameworks, this article claims that the directions advanced by the Chicano/Chicana movement were lost. Instead, what emerged was a field that nurtured a mix of symbolic colonization and docilization through the construction of a settlement that controls thought and behavior, perpetuating misrecognition in a Bourdieuian sense. Illusion, collusion, and delusion have enabled the dominance of psycholinguistic approaches. Problematizing the constitution of bilingual/ESL education within a cultural and political sphere could foster an emancipatory education for marginalized students.