scholarly journals America’s First Freedom: Blood Sacrifice and the Second Amendment in the American Rifleman 1975-2019

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Second Amendment ◽  
Blood Sacrifice ◽  
Warrior Culture ◽  
Gun Culture ◽  
Government Authority

Beginning in the 1970s, the NRA began transforming defense of the Second Amendment into quasi-religious obligation but how this transformation occurred has only recently begun to be understood. This paper contributes to the understanding of how the NRA influenced the transformation of the cultural meaning of the Second Amendment by linking historical American narratives about masculine sacrifice to antigovernment new warrior culture following Vietnam, filling them with Christian nationalist language that rejects government authority to limit the Second Amendment. Using the NRA’s most mainstream and longest running magazine the American Rifleman, I demonstrate how the transformation of the cultural meaning of sacrifice underlies the transformation of meaning of the Second Amendment. This paper explores how the meaning of “sacrifice” in America’s gun culture transformed, alongside what it means to “be a Christian” as well as a “good citizen”. I demonstrate how the anti-government New Warrior culture has merged with Christian nationalist rhetoric to move the Second Amendment beyond the rule of law. Finally, I demonstrate how recently-ousted NRA president and retired Marine Corps LTC Oliver North symbolically embodies the New Christian anti-government Warrior.

scholarly journals Human Rights Arrangement on Indonesian Law

Rechtsidee ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
S. Masribut Sardol
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Second Amendment ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Convention Against Torture ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
Complexity Hierarchy

Article 1 paragraph (3) of the Constitution of 1945 (UUD 1945) stated that Indonesia is a Rule of Law. One feature of the Rule of Law is the existence of human rights in the state administration. Indonesia, since independence on August 17, 1945 has asserted the defense of human rights as stated in the opening clause and in the torso of the 1945 Constitution Article 27-34. In the era of reform, on the Government of President Habibie, the President and the Parliament ratified the UN convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading human dignity into Law number 5 of 1998. Then the MPR also publishes the statutes of MPR No. XVII/MPR/1998 on Human Rights, which was followed up with the appearance of Law No. 39 of 1999 on human rights. In accordance with the law in Indonesia based on the sort of Law No. 12 of 2011, the actual products that have been issued by the Government (the MPR, DPR and President) that follow up the substance of Human Rights in the Constitution with established Assembly and the law is already correct. But when the MPR then does the second amendment to the Constitution on August 18, 2000 by adding a special article chapters and contains about Human Rights (as mentioned in Chapter X-A section 28 A-J), have made the complexity hierarchy of law in Indonesia because it is not in accordance with the substance of article 7 of Law No. 12 of 2011. How To Cite: Sardol, S. (2014). Human Rights Arrangement on Indonesian Law. Rechtsidee, 1(1), 85-100. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.21070/jihr.v1i1.105

scholarly journals Thank You For Your Service: Sacrifice, New Warriors, and the Second Amendment in the American Rifleman from 1975-2018

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Cultural Meaning ◽  
Second Amendment ◽  
Blood Sacrifice ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Christian Nationalism

The defeat in Vietnam marked a change in the cultural meaning surrounding these warriors. One significant transition was the media image of the New Warrior – a warrior who’s sacrifice no longer transformed the nation. The NRA, emerging from the 1970s with a more hardline stance toward Second Amendment absolutism, played an active role in reshaping the relationship between this new warrior culture, military service, and the Second Amendment. Building on a narrative of government betrayal of the soldiers in Vietnam, the NRA recast the ordinary gun owner into the New Warrior, an independent warrior who will go to any lengths to defend the sacred right to bear arms against corrupt agents of the government. But the deeper question of how the NRA has accomplished this transformation of cultural meaning remains largely unexplored. This paper argues that the NRA used the rhetoric of national failure following Vietnam and the blood sacrifice of American soldiers who died in the defense of the Constitution to transform the cultural meaning of the Second Amendment for ordinary citizens. Through the Second Amendment, ordinary men are transformed into Second Amendment warriors, defending the freedoms the American soldiers died to protect. As one of the original real life heroes of the post-Vietnam New War - a retired soldier who operated outside of the law in order to defend the Nation– Oliver North’s ascension to the NRA presidency represents the fulfillment of the post-Vietnam New War archetype and merges the New War mythology with the blood sacrifice of Christian nationalism.

Changing the rule of law

IEE Review ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Clifford Gray
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law

Changing the rule of law

IEE Review ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
H. Aspden
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law

A Review of the Electoral Process under Ghana's Fourth Republic

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-377
Author(s):  
Lydia A. Nkansah ◽  
Delali A. Gawu
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Electoral Process ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Electoral Cycle ◽  
Fourth Republic ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Election Results

There have been seven general elections, under Ghana's Fourth Republic, to elect presidents and members of parliament. There are laws regulating the electoral process and election results have generally been accepted and, in a few cases, challenged through the laid-down process. Elections in Ghana are nonetheless reportedly flawed with irregularities tainting the outcome and creating tensions and sometimes pockets of violence. This article examines the electoral process under Ghana's Fourth Republic, namely the adoption of regulations for each electoral cycle, voters’ registration and the voters’ register, nomination of aspirants, voting, counting of votes and declaration of the results. To ensure the integrity of the electoral process, the laws regulating elections should comply with the dictates of the procedural requirements of the rule of law and the Electoral Commission's actions must be consistent with these laws.

Samuel Beckett and the Rule of Law

1993 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-72
Author(s):  
Phil Baker
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Samuel Beckett ◽  
The Rule Of Law

Debates on the Rule of Law and Why They Matter

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mednicoff
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law
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