J. G. A. Pocock's "Western historiography and the problem of 'Western' history (1970)" discusses Edward Gibbon's dilemma in continuing his narrative of the Roman Empire beyond the year 476 CE....
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The text discusses the history of law and court system in ancient Italy and Rome. It emphasizes the development of legal and judicial systems in the context of national spirit,...
The Executive Order on Recognizing and Honoring Women’s History emphasizes the need to acknowledge women's contributions to American history. The order directs the Secretary of the Interior to identify and...
Ukraine expresses gratitude for support in resisting Russian aggression. It emphasizes the global community's determination to prevail and calls for unity to protect democracy and human lives. The author thanks...
Henry Maine's "Ancient Law" discusses the Teutonic Codes and their impact on archaic secular law. It highlights the greater focus on criminal law over civil law and the development of...
Our modern Parliamentary system of governance and legislative institutions owe their origin and growth to our British legacy. Yet, these institutions attained organic growth on the Indian soil because India...
The History of Islam in Africa is broken down into discrete areas, each devoted to a particular place or theme and each written by experts in that particular arena. The...
The Ashrams of the Vedic Rishis functioned as the main seats of learning during the Vedic period. Each Ashram was a little university under the control of the presiding rishi,...
I have undertaken the present work, as thinking it will appear to all the Greeks worthy of their study: for it will contain all our antiquities, and the constitution...
Ockley based his work on an Arabic manuscript in the Bodleian library which later scholars have pronounced less trustworthy than he imagined it to be. His English is pure, and...
Nature of the Judicial Process – by Benjamin Cardozo (The Methods of History, Tradition and Sociology)
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In countries where statutes are oftener confined to the announcement of general principles, and there is no attempt to deal with details or particulars, legislation has less tendency to limit...
THE old civilisation of India was a concrete unity of many-sided developments in art, architecture, literature, religion, morals, and science so far as it was understood in those days. But...
A History of the Diocese of Lucknow (Anglican Church) since East India Company-Eyre Chatterton (1924)
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Benares will for ever be linked with the memory of Daniel Corrie, first Bishop of Madras. During his Chaplaincy in Benares, which began in November 1817, he did all in...
Slang is the language of street humour, of fast, high, and low life. Cant, as was stated in the chapter upon that subject, is the vulgar language of secrecy. It...
It is strange but true: belief in the Devil is alive. This fact is brilliantly argued by Robert Muchembled in his book A History of the Devil: From the Middle Ages...
The origins of the Conservative Party can be traced to the 'Tory' faction which emerged in the later seventeenth century. This 'Tory Party' established a secure hold on government between...
Thousands of the immigrants who came to America disliked the state and disowned the church of the mother country. They established compacts of government for themselves and set up altars...
Religion is really a product and not a cause: Economic Interpretation of History-May Wood Simmons (1900)
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Society, then, is not advanced to higher planes through the influence of individual great men. It is plain that great social changes arise from causes that strike roots deep down...
When you deal with the past, you're dealing with history, you're dealing actually with the origin of a thing. When you know the origin, you know the cause. If you...
History Of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time-RICHARD FALCKENBERG (1893)
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Nicolas of Cusa (1401-64) was the first to announce fundamental principles of modern philosophy—he is the leader in this intermediate preparatory period. Descartes (1596-1650) brought forward the first system—he is...
Since the beginning of the twentieth century the interest in philosophy and the ability devoted to its cultivation have shown no sign of diminution. Two new doctrines in particular have...
Since Indian nationalism can only exist as a product of the Hindu Civilization, these forces hostile to Hinduism have combined to oppose the rise of national awareness that is now...
Besides this Parliamentary interference with East India, solicited by the greedy home manufacturer, efforts were made at every epoch of the renewal of the Charter, by the merchants of London,...
Observations on Church and State: the ecclesiastical history of Scotland-James Ferrier-1848
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We answer, that, at any rate, it contains so large an amount of truth—is so indisputably borne out by the recorded evidence of the early sittings of our Assembly—throws so...
In writing this history of Sanskrit literature, I have dwelt more on the life and thought of Ancient India, which that literature embodies, than would perhaps have appeared necessary in...
Most of the taxes of Ancient India were highly productive. The admixture of direct taxes with indirect Taxes secured elasticity in the tax system, although more emphasis was laid on...
The first representative body of legislative power was created in the Russian Empire in 1905 as result of the revolution. On 6 August 1905, Emperor Nicholas II issued a Manifesto on Establishment and Organisational Rules of one of the parliament chambers – the State Duma.
The judiciary shall be comprised of one Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal
Article 81 of Constitution of the year 2004 states that the National Assembly of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, as the highest legislative organ, shall manifest the public will, as well...
Kabul, a city of ancient history, had been a home for kings and crowns. In the past, a wall, which still its remainders exist, enclosed the city with six entrance...