How consequential is the commonwealth constitutional model?

Constitutional Exclusion and Gender in Commonwealth Africa

Part I of this article briefly describes customary law and explores the effect of colonialism on legal pluralism and the region’s early post-colonial constitutions. Part II describes the structure and content of constitutional clauses that exclude personal law and customary law from constitutional non-discrimination protection. Part III briefly examines international and regional human rights l...

How is the Mother Tongue Acquired

ON THE ROLE OF IDEOLOGICAL HOMOGENEITY IN GENERATING CONSEQUENTIAL CONSTITUTIONAL DECISIONSt

would finally overrule Miranda v. Arizona. After all, beginning in the 1970s, the Justices had gradually narrowed Miranda's reach, and Berkemer seemed to present an enticing opportunity to remove it from the books altogether! That step the Justices did not take. Writing for a unanimous Court,4 Justice Marshall may have held against the defendant, but his opinion reaffirmed a "central principle"...

the present study is a survey os postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. it argues how the recorded history is regulated by the rules of power and how women have been excluded from this discourse.ther study analysez angela carters nights at the circus as an example of postmodern historical novel to illustrate how this novel has questioned the historical narrative and how it has inserted women into history by breaking the rules of patriarchy.

the present thesis is a study of postmodern historical novel with respect to the voice of women. according to postmodern historiography,the established institution of history is one of the other manifestations of patriarchys power which has silenced women. the study analyzes angela carters nights at the circus as a postmodern historical novel which makes its female characters transgress the pat...

Is Medicaid constitutional?

10.1056/nejmp1204347 nejm.org e27(1) (ACA) before the Supreme Court, the most important issue before the Court may well be the constitutionality of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. There are potential alternatives to the minimum-coverage requirement, but a finding that the Medicaid expansion is unconstitutional could threaten all federal spending programs that set minimum participation standards. ...