Constitution

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

History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution. Interspersed With Biographical, Political and Moral Observations.

Abstract: Mercy Otis Warren has been described as perhaps the most formidable female intellectual in eighteenth-century America. This work (in the first new edition since 1805) is an exciting and comprehensive study of the events of the American Revolution, from the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765 through the ratification of the Constitution in 1788-1789. Steeped in the classical, republican tradition, Warren was a strong proponent of the American Revolution. She was also suspicious of the newly emerging commercial republic of the 1780s and hostile to the Constitution from an Anti-Federalist perspective, a position that gave her history some notoriety.

Secularization as a European Fate? – Results from the Church and Religion in an Enlarged Europe Project 2006

Abstract: Since the controversial debate on the inclusion of religion in the preamble of the European Constitution at the latest, it has become obvious that ‚soft’ cultural differences persist in the joint European region even after the cessation of the ‚hard’ political differences between Western and Central Eastern Europe. On the one hand, countries such as Poland and Hungary pressed for the inclusion of the Christian notion of God in the European Constitution, on the other hand, other countries (such as France) tried to avoid such an explicit definition. This controversy may certainly be interpreted as an indication of the problems in determining the social relevance of religion in Europe in a general sense. However, it may also point to the relevance of an approach which has often been considered to be out-dated or refuted – the secularization theory.

2 women's rights in the middle east and north africa

Abstract: ★rights. The French mandate authorities, in agreement with the Lebanese authorities, included equal civil and political rights for all Lebanese citizens in the 1926 constitution. However, the election law did not give women the right to vote, prompting new protests by women’s rights activists. With the emergence of the campaign for independence from the French mandate, women’s suffrage lost its importance on the national front. In stead, women joined with men in organizing and taking part in demonstrations for independence across the country. After the independence was fi nally achieved in 1943, sectarian discord kept the women’s movement from regaining its previous momentum. It was not until 1953 that the Lebanese Women’s Council was offi cially established, and all Lebanese women received the right to vote and run in elections as candidates. 1 This achievement did not result in women’s representation in the parliament until the early 1990s, apart from one exception in 1963. 2 The women’s movement was also derailed by the 1975–90 civil war, as activists shifted their focus to social and relief services, helping to fithe gap left by the shattered state. The movement was revived after the war, and newly created women’s networks began to concentrate their efforts on the reform of discriminatory laws. Lebanon ratifi ed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in 1997. The following year, the government formed the National Com mission for Lebanese Women (NCLW) to oversee the implementation of the goals of CEDAW and the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, and to develop national strategies and programs for the empowerment of women. 3 The end of the Syrian occupation was precipitated by the February 2005 assassination of Rafi c Hariri, who had overseen Lebanon’s reconstruction while serving as prime minister for most of the postwar period.