Word: consents
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...with history. | It has instead to do with democracy, with a new principle of international relations or, rather, an old one that has been revived: the principle of democratic legitimacy. The Lithuanians are right to do what they did because it was an elected government, created by consent of the governed, that decided in the name of the people to secede. It is the democratic origin of that decision, not its historical antecedents, that makes it right...
...American press as a special situation. Hiding the victim's name, the argument went, protected her from the secondary trauma of exposure to prurient public attention. Journalistic policy elsewhere varies. The Code of Practice, drawn up by Britain's Press Council, prohibits newspapers from naming rape victims without their consent. In France, on the contrary, adult rape victims are usually named. In the U.S. three states have confidentiality laws that protect the identity of rape victims. But these are in limbo, largely because of the 1989 Supreme Court ruling in Florida Star v. B.J.F. The court overturned...
When the Supreme Court last summer ruled that states could restrict abortions, all-out political warfare broke out. Both pro-life and pro-choice forces have since won victories: Michigan, Minnesota and Florida declined to enact new strictures on abortion; South Carolina began requiring parental or judicial consent for minors; Pennsylvania outlawed abortion for parents unhappy with the sex of the fetus. Last week abortion foes scored their greatest success yet when Idaho's senate passed the toughest abortion measure in any state...
...many of them Navajos from local reservations, contracted lung cancer, and many of them died. In 1979, 200 workers with cancer sued the Federal Government for damages, but courts dismissed the case on the ground of sovereign immunity, which exempts the Government from legal liability unless it gives its consent...
Find footnotes.Something about the thesis writer's predicament makes you feel rude if you do not consent to being their slave. "Problem? No problem. Are you kidding?" you say as you rummage through the stacks of Widener for the first time since Reading Period to find the all-important place of publication...