The First War of the New Order: How Rule of Law and the Form of Government Changed in America's Second Revolution

Author(s):  
Barry Clark
Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Michael Popejoy

Analyzing the lessons learned in Iraq, the author of this article explores whether the American experience embracing our fundamental beliefs on human rights and other related ideologies, including separation of church and state, freedom of individuals to choose their leaders and their form of government through a democratic forum, authority of a constitutional rule of law, and a concept of impartial justice, is an exportable commodity.


Author(s):  
Karl Kraus

This chapter illustrates the professional competence of a programmatic purge that reflects the anti-Semitism of Adolf Bartels, whose discontent with the modern era is reciprocated. There are sensational developments in every economic sector of the Nazi movement. But the rule of law by decree tolerates other arbitrary instances of metaphor coalescing with hard facts. In literature, too, there have been reported cases of unscrupulous competition ending in bloodshed. Authors who use their elbows, sometimes quite literally, to thrust aside Jews have defined themselves as the “Kampfbund” (Fighting Unit). The new order operates as violently as the seismic force in Walpurgis Night.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-64
Author(s):  
Dejan Abdul Hadi ◽  
Faisal Syarif Hidayat

Post New Order era there was a demand for reform from the Indonesian people, which then led to changes in the concept of regional head election system in accordance with the basic mandate of organizing the Election of Regional Heads indirectly is based on the 1945 Constitution, Article 18 paragraph (4) after the amendment which reads "Governors, Regents, and Mayors respectively as Heads of Provincial, Regency and City Regional Governments are democratically elected "Then the concept of Pilkada after the enactment of Law No. 32 of 2004 in conjunction with Law No. 10 of 2016 ended the dominant influence of the Central Government. The arrival of the decentralization era and the system of direct regional elections made corrupt acts of collusion and nepotism a culture continue to spread to the area that is certain can threaten democracy and the existence of the NKRI. So the authors see a relationship between the concept of the concept of the regional head election system and the culture of corruption in Indonesia, so the solution to overcome this problem is strengthening corruption eradication institutions, strengthening at the regional level effectively, harmonizing legislation, strengthening the principle of general government principles good and enforcement of the rule of law with the principle of equality before the law by realizing that there is a very urgent need to overcome the culture of corruption.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 15-29
Author(s):  
Aswasthama Bhakta Kharel

 Democracy allows the expression of political preferences of citizens in a state. It advocates the rule of law, constraints on executive’s power, and guarantees the provision of civil liberties. It also manages to ensure human rights and fundamental freedoms of people. In democracy, people are supposed to exercise their freely expressed will. Ordinary people hold the political power of the state and rule directly or through elected representatives inside a democratic form of government. Democracy is a participatory and liberal way of governing a country. Different countries in the world have been practicing various models of democracy. There remains the participation of people in government and policy-making of the state under democracy. But when the majority can pull the strings of the society without there being legislation for protecting the rights of the minority, it may create a severe risk of oppression. Many countries of the world at the present time are facing democratic deficits. In several countries, the democratic practices are not adequately regulated and governed, as a result, the rise of violations of rules of law is observed. Even a few countries practicing democracy are not living peacefully. This situation has put a significant question about the need and sustainability of democracy. Democracy is a widely used system of governance beyond having several challenges. Here the concept, origin, models, dimensions, practices, challenges, solutions, and future of democracy are dealt to understand the structure of ideal democracy.


1988 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Costeloe

In the summer of 1835 Mexico chose to abandon the federal form of government instituted a decade earlier in 1824 and to replace it with a centralized republic. The dismantling of federal laws and institutions and the enactment of those designed to replace them occupied the next eighteen months until on December 30, 1836 the process of change to the new system culminated in the publication of a new constitution, the so-called Constitutión de las Siete Leyes. This fundamental change in the political structure of the nation was not achieved without considerable dissent and the protracted transitional period permitted many groups who opposed the new order of things to air their views and in some cases, notably in Zacatecas and Texas, to attempt military resistance. The supporters of centralism found themselves, therefore, obliged to make and justify their case for change and to convince themselves as well as their opponents that their proposals represented the popular will. It is with this centralist case for change, or manifesto, that this article is primarily concerned.


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Michal Urban

<p>Winston Churchill famously noted that democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.<a title="" href="file:///X:/Academic%20Library%20Services/Research%20Support%20Team/Scholarly%20Publications/OJS/International%20Journal%20of%20Public%20Legal%20Education/07%20Michal%20Urban.docx#_ftn1">[1]</a> He was talking about constitutional liberal democracy in Fareed Zakaria’s terms,<a title="" href="file:///X:/Academic%20Library%20Services/Research%20Support%20Team/Scholarly%20Publications/OJS/International%20Journal%20of%20Public%20Legal%20Education/07%20Michal%20Urban.docx#_ftn2">[2]</a> combining classical liberalism with the rule of law, and he had no illusions about its weaknesses. After all, he was a witness to fall of many of those European democracies under the pressures of Nazism, fascism or communism in 1930s and 1940s.  However imperfect system this kind of democracy may be, it is the system that most European countries currently have, for better or worse, and all the alternatives to it we are currently observing across the world, be it in China, Russia, Hungary or Turkey present no tempting substitute. On the contrary, these more or less illiberal democracies evoke pleasantly positive feeling towards our version of democracy, even with all its flaws.</p><div><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><div><p><a title="" href="file:///X:/Academic%20Library%20Services/Research%20Support%20Team/Scholarly%20Publications/OJS/International%20Journal%20of%20Public%20Legal%20Education/07%20Michal%20Urban.docx#_ftnref1">[1]</a> See https://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form-of-government.</p></div><div><p><a title="" href="file:///X:/Academic%20Library%20Services/Research%20Support%20Team/Scholarly%20Publications/OJS/International%20Journal%20of%20Public%20Legal%20Education/07%20Michal%20Urban.docx#_ftnref2">[2]</a> Zakaria, Fareed. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. W.W. Norton &amp; Company,  2003.</p></div></div>


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