Us

2020 ◽  
pp. 185-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan P. McAdams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Authoritarian Leadership ◽  
The Press ◽  
American Law ◽  
Government Bureaucracy ◽  
The Government ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Many ◽  
Changing Demographics

The chapter us considers the many implications and ramifications of authoritarianism in the presidency of Donald J. Trump. The authoritarian leader pits the good us against the bad “them,” and he promulgates a doctrine that aims to defend against the them while purging all dissent within the “us.” The chapter discusses the origins of the concept of the authoritarian personality, and it examines instances of authoritarian leadership in “illiberal” democracies today, as in Poland and Hungary. Coming back to the United States, the chapter examines Trump’s authoritarian dynamic from many different perspectives, including race relations and the emergence of the alt-right in American society, the changing demographics of the United States, Trump’s appeal to evangelical white Christians, and the president’s assault on Congress, the courts, the institutions of American law enforcement, the government bureaucracy, and the press.

United States Vagrancy Laws

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Risa L. Goluboff ◽  
Adam Sorensen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
American Law ◽  
American Society ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Many ◽  
Social Upheaval ◽  
The Unemployed

The crime of vagrancy has deep historical roots in American law and legal culture. Originating in 16th-century England, vagrancy laws came to the New World with the colonists and soon proliferated throughout the British colonies and, later, the United States. Vagrancy laws took myriad forms, generally making it a crime to be poor, idle, dissolute, immoral, drunk, lewd, or suspicious. Vagrancy laws often included prohibitions on loitering—wandering around without any apparent lawful purpose—though some jurisdictions criminalized loitering separately. Taken together, vaguely worded vagrancy, loitering, and suspicious persons laws targeted objectionable “out of place” people rather than any particular conduct. They served as a ubiquitous tool for maintaining hierarchy and order in American society. Their application changed alongside perceived threats to the social fabric, at different times and places targeting the unemployed, labor activists, radical orators, cultural and sexual nonconformists, racial and religious minorities, civil rights protesters, and the poor. By the mid-20th century, vagrancy laws served as the basis for hundreds of thousands of arrests every year. But over the course of just two decades, the crime of vagrancy, virtually unquestioned for four hundred years, unraveled. Profound social upheaval in the 1960s produced a concerted effort against the vagrancy regime, and in 1972, the US Supreme Court invalidated the laws. Local authorities have spent the years since looking for alternatives to the many functions vagrancy laws once served.

End-of-Life Care behind Bars

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis B. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Life Care ◽  
Prison Health ◽  
The Many ◽  
Changing Demographics

More people than ever before are being incarcerated in the United States. Many inmates are infected with HIV and hepatitis C. Sentences are increasing in length. Prison health care is now having to cope with the many chronic illnesses associated with an ill and aging population. The growth of end-of-life care programs in corrections in the United States is a direct result of the changing demographics of inmates. This article examines the need for end-of-life care behind bars and discusses selected hospice programs.

Basic U. S. Sources For Current Research In International Law: An Elementary Vade-Mecum

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolf Sprudzs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intergovernmental Organizations ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Many ◽  
The U.S

Among the many old and new actors on the international stage of nations the United States is one of the most active and most important. The U.S. is a member of most existing intergovernmental organizations, participates in hundreds upon hundreds of international conferences and meetings every year and, in conducting her bilateral and multilateral relations with the other members of the community of nations, contributes very substantially to the development of contemporary international law. The Government of the United States has a policy of promptly informing the public about developments in its relations with other countries through a number of documentary publication, issued by the Department of State

scholarly journals The Culture of Hospitality in Moldova and the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-63
Author(s):  
Anastasiia Dobrovolska ◽  
Rolf Holtz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Norm ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Many ◽  
Unplanned Visit

This tongue-in-cheek comparison between the unplanned visit and invasion by Mongolian-Tatarian tribes signifies at least two aspects of Moldovan hospitality. First, the treatment of guests in one’s home follows a cultural norm that prescribes not only the attitude toward visitors, but also the protocol of a host’s behavior. Moldovan rules of hospitality provide hosts with guidelines for proper comportment during a visit. Second, the adage suggests that guests can expect their host to adhere to a traditional standard of hospitable conduct. This helps to eliminate the uncertainty guests might experience in someone else’s home and alerts them to the efforts their host exerts on their behalf. In the United States, hospitality is also highly valued. However, norms for a host’s conduct are likely to range widely given the many cultures that shape American society. 

scholarly journals Sociological perspective on the elimination of Karanganyar Regency as an impact of the 1930s economic depression

Simulacra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-94
Author(s):  
Teguh Hindarto ◽  
Chusni Ansori
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
East Indies ◽  
Government Bureaucracy ◽  
Dutch East Indies ◽  
Economic Depression ◽  
The Government

 The 1930s economic crisis in the United States had spread throughout the world and caused a number of social, economic, political and cultural impacts, including for the Dutch East Indies colonies. Karanganyar Regency, which was in the Bagelen Residency territory since 1901, had experienced the effects of the economic shock as well. Karanganyar was a district in the Kebumen Regency area. Before becoming a sub-district, Karanganyar was an independent regency and had its head of government from 1832 until 1936. Through literature studies, this paper intended to thoroughly analyze the existence of Karanganyar Regency in the colonial era, find out the background of its elimination, and the process of social change that occurred. To obtain the main variables that cause the elimination of Karanganyar Regency, the researcher utilized the historical comparative method. From the analysis, we concluded that the Economic Depression centred in the United States affected the Dutch East Indies colonies, particularly on the management of the government bureaucracy. This situation demanded the Dutch East Indies government to adapt to social change by removing a number of Regency, including Karanganyar Regency.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Martha Minow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
For Profit ◽  
The Press ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Government Involvement ◽  
The Government ◽  
Historical Developments

As traditional for-profit news media in the United States decline in economic viability and sheer numbers of outlets and staff, what does and what should the constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press mean? The book examines the current news ecosystem in the United States and chronicles historical developments in government involvement in shaping the industry. It argues that initiatives by the government and by private sector actors are not only permitted but called for as transformations in technology, economics, and communications jeopardize the production and distribution of and trust in news and the very existence of local news reporting. It presents twelve proposals for change to help preserve the free press essential to our democratic society.

International Human Rights and Domestic Law

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory S. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
The Press ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Government ◽  
Domestic Law

In light of the compelling empirical connection between hate speech and atrocity, what laws, if any, criminalize the dissemination of such rhetoric? Chapter 2 begins to answer that question by examining international human rights instruments and domestic laws covering speech and violence. It notes there is an inbuilt clash in the principal human rights documents between free expression and freedom from invidious discrimination. Most of the world’s liberal democracies protect dignity against discrimination. The United States does not. The world’s most speech-protective jurisdiction, its Constitution’s First Amendment stipulates that the government may “make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” As the United States plays a prominent role in developing the criminalization of atrocity speech on the global stage, and as its Supreme Court has often held forth on issues of speech liberty, its domestic jurisprudence is a particular focus of this chapter.

Law of the United States of America: Recent Monographs and Treatises

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
I. I. Kavass
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Collective Effect ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Legal Scholar ◽  
Legal Literature ◽  
American Law ◽  
The Many ◽  
Law Reports

Few libraries outside the United States have either the means or the need to acquire complete holdings of American legal materials. The many capacious series of law reports, legal periodicals and legislative materials which comprise the bulk of American legal literature may in any event be beyond their reach for reasons of cost and space. If foreign libraries are interested in American legal materials at all they have limited objectives. All they need are small collections of monographs with a broad reference capability. In terms of their ideal criteria such collections are envisaged to consist of no more than several hundred basic books which might have the collective effect of presenting a comprehensive overview of the major areas of American law at a sufficient level of analytical depth to satisfy the immediate research needs of a lawyer or a legal scholar in a foreign country.

The Attempted Revision of the State Constitution of New York

1916 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Giddings Benjamin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
American People ◽  
Cooperative Movement ◽  
Comprehensive Plans ◽  
The Government ◽  
Private Corporations ◽  
Good Nature ◽  
The Many

The American people, especially in the eastern portion of the United States, are averse to political and social change particularly in institutions that have existed for a long period of time. A recent critic of American life has the following to say as a reason for this attitude of the American people:“Among the many characteristics which foreign observers have ascribed to Americans are two about which there has been little difference of opinion. We are good-natured and we are individualists. Sermons have been preached against our good nature, so we need not dwell upon it. Much more important is our individualism—our absorption in individual interests and our reluctance to undertake things in combination with our neighbors or through the government. That individualism is an American characteristic is proved by a number of familiar facts. Thus the phrase ‘social reform,’ which in other countries suggests comprehensive plans of state action, is still usually associated in the United States with the welfare work of private corporations, private endowed schools of philanthropy…. Again, the coöperative movement which has made such signal progress in Europe, is in its infancy here.

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