The poet Shelley once said that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.* 1 He was right. Societies are shaped by images, metaphors and tropes word-pictures of what particular societies stand for, what principles are important, where the societies are heading. These images are often constitutive in the sense that they provide a unifying language of public action, shape individuals...

Last Term, the Supreme Court confronted constitutional issues of sex discrimination and search and seizure. First, in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista,1 the Court held that the Fourth Amendment creates no bar to the warrantless arrest of a citizen for a misdemeanor criminal offense. Then, in Nguyen v. INS,2 the Court upheld against an equal protection challenge a statute that imposed different req...

events of september the 11 and then us invasion of iraq resulted in wide formal and substantial alterations in political and security equilibriums of the middle east. by eliminating sadam hussein, us was trying to engineer a new government and power structure in iraq, within which the nature of a new constitution is considerably important. the author believes that the method of the approval of ...

Title of dissertation: CONSTITUTING REPUBLICS: TOWARD POLITICAL CONCEPTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PREDICAMENT Emilbek Dzhuraev, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor Stephen Elkin and Professor Karol Soltan Department of Government and Politics How is a good political order constituted? This work is a critical and constructive exploration of the problem of political cons...

objective: this study determined the chromosomal constitution of recurrent spontaneous abortions by comparative genomic hybridization (cgh) analysis of fetal samples. material and methods:   forty pregnant women with early recurrent pregnancy losses aged 21 to 42 years old from tehran university of medical sciences affiliated hospitals entered in this descriptive study. hibridization analysis o...

Are acquired characteristics inherited? We admit that individuals inherit a certain constitution, and that definite variations from this constitution are acquired during life-time, according to well-known laws. The question is: Are these definite acquired variations in any degree transmitted, or are the congenital variations in the constitution of the offspring independent of those which have b...