scholarly journals De persoonlijke aanval als wezenlijk kenmerk van het parlementaire debat : Een analyse aan de hand van de geschiedenis van ‘onparlementair taalgebruik’ in de Tweede Kamer

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-187
Author(s):  
Carla Hoetink
Keyword(s):  
Rich Source ◽  
Essential Characteristic ◽  
Personal Attack ◽  
Ad Hominem ◽  
Parliamentary Debate ◽  
Lower House ◽  
History Of ◽  
Parliamentary History ◽  
Complicated Nature

Abstract The Personal Attack as Essential Characteristic of Parliamentary Debating. An Analysis on the Basis of the History of ‘Unparliamentary Language’ in the Dutch Lower HousePersonal attacks abound in Dutch parliamentary history. This article considers personal insults and character attacks as an intrinsic part of parliamentary debate. But how widespread is the phenomenon? What forms of ad hominem arguments can be distinguished in the history of Dutch parliamentary debate? When and to what extent do parliamentarians deem the abusive attack acceptable? Drawing on a rich source of language ruled to be unparliamentary in Dutch parliament from 1934 until 2001, the article will reflect on the complicated nature of personal attacks within the context of parliaments: often condemned as indecent, yet appreciated as a cunning debating strategy.

scholarly journals ‘Parasitische politiek’ : Thorbecke en de persoonlijke aanval in de Nederlandse Tweede Kamer

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-145
Author(s):  
Henk te Velde
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Personal Attack ◽  
Ad Hominem ◽  
Lower House ◽  
Parliamentary History

Abstract ‘Parasitic Politics’. Thorbecke and Personal Attacks in the Dutch Lower HouseThis contribution uses a famous personal attack in Dutch parliamentary history to discuss ad hominem in the context of the activity type of parliamentary debating. The case is Thorbecke, liberal leader and most prominent defender of pure parliamentary discussion, vs the then Prime Minister Van Hall, in December 1860. Thorbecke rejected Van Hall’s opportunist policies but he also disliked him intensely. His personal feelings transpired in his diatribe against Van Hall’s ‘parasitic politics’. Thorbecke’s adherents applauded what they considered a principled attack, Van Hall’s supporters criticized the vehement personal attack. The attack virtually ended the discussion, and it was the culmination of Thorbecke’s vendetta against Van Hall. It is hard to deny that Thorbecke’s diatribe was a personal attack, since he disregarded the arguments of his opponent and discredited him by attacking his personal credibility, but the interpretation of such a political case will always remain open to discussion.

A View from Mecca: Notes on Gujarat, the Red Sea, and the Ottomans, 1517–39/923–946 H.

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
MUZAFFAR ALAM ◽  
SANJAY SUBRAHMANYAM
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
Main Interest ◽  
History Of ◽  
Indian Ocean World

AbstractThis article examines the history of Gujarat-Red Sea relations in the first quarter of a century after the Ottoman conquest of the Hijaz, in the light of Arabic narrative sources that have hitherto been largely neglected. While earlier historians have made use of both Ottoman and Portuguese archives in this context, we return here to the chronicles of Mecca itself, which prove to be an unexpectedly interesting and rich source on the matter. Our main interest is in the figure of Jarullah ibn Fahd and his extensive annalistic work, Nayl al-munā. A good part of our analysis will focus on the events of the 1530s, and the dealings of Sultan Bahadur Shah Gujarati's delegation to the Ottomans, headed by ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Asaf Khan. But we shall also look at the longer history of contacts, and conclude with brief remarks on the relevance of the career of the celebrated Gujarati-Hijazi intellectual, Qutb al-Din Muhammad Nahrawali. We thus hope to add another important, concrete dimension to our understanding of India's location in the early modern Indian Ocean world, as a tribute to the career and contribution of David Washbrook, our friend and colleague.

On Recent Proposals Regarding Habitual Drunkards and other Offenders

1896 ◽  
Vol 42 (176) ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
A. Wood Renton ◽  
D. Yellowlees
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Legal Profession ◽  
Present Review ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Parliamentary History ◽  
Legal Administration ◽  
Historical Sketch

Mr. Wood Renton.Viewed from the Legal Standpoint.Within the last two years no less than three Parliamentary Reports, dealing with the problems presented by the familiar phenomena of inebriety and recidivism, have been published,∗ and a measure † designed, and, to a large extent, calculated to carry the main recommendations embodied in these documents into effect, has been read a second time in the House of Lords, under the pilotage of the then head of English legal administration. These facts show that public opinion has at length been thoroughly aroused as to the necessity for fresh legislation on the subject of habitual drunkenness and crime, and render any preliminary historical sketch of the growth of the movement, which is apparently at last on the eve of attaining its objects, superfluous. If there is any member of the medical or legal profession who is still in ignorance of the process by which the problems in question have been brought to the stage of perfect ripeness for legislative solution, he may be referred with confidence to an admirable summary of the Parliamentary history of legislation affecting inebriates by Mr. Legge, the Secretary to the Inebriates Committee, 1891, which forms the 6th appendix to the minutes of evidence taken by that body, and is reproduced, with some additions and alterations, as Appendix M in the evidence taken by the Scottish Committee of 1894, and to the three Parliamentary Reports which have suggested the present review (see note, sup.).

scholarly journals The Constitutional and Parliamentary History of Ireland till the Union

1919 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 272
Author(s):  
Edward Porritt ◽  
J. G. Swift MacNeil
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Parliamentary History

Legislating Right, Contemplating Duty: Parliamentary Debate on RTE Second Amendment Bill

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 204-224
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar ◽  
Ronita Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Indian Children ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Second Amendment ◽  
Parliamentary Debate ◽  
Lower House ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Education Act ◽  
The Right

The study is an attempt to understand the prevailing discourse in India on education as a right by closely reading the parliamentary debates on The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017. Prior to the passing of the above-mentioned amendment bill The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 had debarred schools from detaining or expelling a child till the completion of her elementary education. This provision was amended by the Indian Parliament by passing the bill. When the bill was moved in the Indian parliament it generated debate on the various aspects of education and schooling. The study critically analyses the texts of two proceedings of the parliamentary debate: one from the lower house (Lok Sabha) and the other from the upper house (Rajya Sabha). The study concludes that the deliberation on the bill turned the right-based approach on elementary education almost upside down. The 86th amendment in the Indian constitution and subsequent enactment of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 had recognized children in the age group of 6–14 years as ‘right holders’ while the Indian state had been identified as the ‘duty bearer’. The discourse emerged in the Indian Parliament during the debate on the Amendment Bill, 2017 constituted Indian children of school-going age, their parents and teachers as groups accountable to the state for achieving the goals for universal elementary education, while the Indian state was constituted as an entity with the right to demand compliances from children, parents and teachers.

Terroir

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-59
Author(s):  
Stephen V. Bittner
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
Essential Characteristic ◽  
History Of

Chapter 1 follows the life and career of Mikhail Ballas, a Bessarabian nobleman and late-tsarist Russia’s most influential wine writer. In the early 1900s, Ballas received the prestigious Emperor Alexander IIII Prize in Viniculture for authoring a six-volume set, Winemaking in Russia, which laid out in exacting detail the history of winemaking in the tsarist empire, the present state of the industry, and the quality of wine it produced. Long before the idea of terroir emerged as the essential characteristic of fine wine, Ballas described something that resembled modern notions of terroir: the geographical and climatic diversity of empire, the vinicultural possibilities inherent in that diversity, and most important, the ways that human ingenuity and ecology intersected in unexpected ways in vineyards to produce fine wine.

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