Search results for: “encyclopedia of gun control and gun rights”
-
Cardinal
Cardinal History Cardinal (Lat. cardinalis), in the Roman Church, the title of the highest dignitaries next to the pope. The cardinals constitute the council or senate of the sovereign pontiff, his auxiliaries in the general government of the Church; it is they who act as administrators of the Church during a vacancy of the Holy…
-
Terrorism Causes
Causes of TerrorismIntroduction to Terrorism CausesTerrorism has occurred throughout history for a variety of reasons. Its causes can be historical, cultural, political, social, psychological, economic, or religious-or any combination of these. Some countries have proven to be part…
-
Right of Search
Introduction to Right of SearchRight of Search, in wartime, the right of a belligerent warship to stop neutral merchant vessels on the high seas in order to ascertain the nature of the cargo and the ownership of the vessel and thus determine its liability to capture. A belligerent in time o…
-
Political Parties History
Political Parties: History of Political Parties: Origins and DevelopmentIntroduction to Political Parties HistoryThe origins of political parties are closely associated with the development of the modern state and representative democracy in Western Europe and the United States. Pa…
-
International Ocean Law
Maritime Law International Ocean LawIntroduction to International Ocean LawSome aspects of ocean law affect relationships among nations. Issues of neutrality and belligerency that occur in wartime are dealt with in international law. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the …
-
History of Migration
History of Migration Migration in Ancient History Among the most far-reaching series of ancient migrations were those of the peoples who spread the Indo-European family of languages (see Indo-European Languages). According to a prevalent hypothesis, a large group of Indo-Europeans migrated from east-central Europe eastward toward the region of the Caspian Sea before 3000 BC.…
-
Capital Punishment Development
Capital Punishment Development For most of recorded history, capital punishment was available to every government for especially serious crimes and often for a great variety of less serious offenses. The term felony, which today signifies all serious crime, was the traditional classification in England for crimes punishable by death. Since the 18th century, the long-term…
-
Death Penalty Debate
Death Penalty Debate Capital Punishment: the Death Penalty Debate The practice of capital punishment is as old as government itself. For most of history, it has not been considered controversial. Since ancient times most governments have punished a wide variety of crimes by death and have conducted executions as a routine part of the administration…
-
Socialist Legal Systems
Socialist Legal Systems Socialist law is the legal system used in most Communist states. It is based on the civil law system and Marxist-Leninist ideology. During the cold war period, it was incorporated into the legal systems of the Soviet Union and its former satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe. These systems were built…
-
Code Law Systems
Code Law Systems The term “code-law systems” is usually employed, as a legal term of art, with two different, if related, meanings. First, “code” refers to the reduction of the laws customarily observed by a particular people to a more or less permanent, organized, and written form through a comprehensive piece of legislation or codification.…
-
KIA-KIK North America LC Classification
KIA-KIK North America — Continued KIE-KIK United States US Diagram Cf. KF8201+ Indians (Law of the United States) Cf. E78-99.Z9 Indians of North America KIE (5000 no) Regional comparative American Indian law Bibliography General bibliography 2.A-Z Guides to law collections. Tribal law gateways (Portals). Web directories, A-Z Including national and regional tribal directories 2.A46 American…
-
History of Yugoslavia
Introduction This is the first part of the history of Yugoslavia, which has had hugue implications in international law, specially European law. The country Also called “Jugoslavia”. The official name was the “Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes” (Kraljevina Srba Hnata i Slovcnaca). The country came into being in the closing months of 1918…
-
MPEPIL: International co-operation
MPEPIL: International co-operation Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) list of articles of this subject. List of articles pertaining to this subject: International co-operation: 1. Abduction, Transboundary, Wilske, Stephan 2. Admiralty Law, de la Motte, Thomas 3. Agenda 21, Shelton, Dinah 4. Agenda for Development, Schrijver, Nico J 5. Aliens, Expulsion and…
-
Top 25.000 English words
Which are the top 25.000 most popular English words? According to a review from Lawi, these are the 25.000 most popular English words, in order: you the i to a and it of that in is me what this for my on your we have do no don’t are be i’m not was he it’s…