Contingent Design & The Court Reform Debate

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Michael Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Court Reform ◽  
Reform Debate

Calendrical Astronomy in the Twelfth Century

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Philipp E. Nothaft
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Calendar Reform ◽  
Detailed Picture ◽  
Influential Theory ◽  
Reform Debate

This chapter employs a range of previously untapped sources to paint a detailed picture of how the so-called Renaissance of the Twelfth Century reshaped computistical literature and spawned the first blossoming of a calendar-reform debate in the Latin Christian world. Major points of discussion are the introduction of astronomical tables as instruments for analysing calendrical error, the discovery of the lunar calendars used by Muslims and Jews as potential alternatives to the Church’s own 19-year cycle, and the adoption of a new understanding of the nature of the solar year, in particular the influential theory of the ‘access and recess of the eighth sphere’ and its prediction of a variable tropical year.

“Red Saxony!”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Retallack
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Political Society ◽  
Social Democrats ◽  
Reform Debate

The long build-up to the Reichstag elections of 1903 produced a dramatic outcome when Social Democrats scored an overwhelming victory. The epithet “Red Saxony” was born overnight, and thereafter it remained a triumphal shout for Social Democrats and a nightmare for their enemies. This chapter begins by examining the 1903 election in its local, regional, and national contexts. The SPD’s organizational strength and élan are considered in light of the shock this election produced. The election also restarted a suffrage reform debate that convulsed Saxon political society until 1909. The Saxon government presented a complicated, hybrid suffrage proposal at the end of 1903. It was torpedoed by the anti-socialist parties in the Landtag. But by 1905 this defense of Saxony’s three-class suffrage had confounded National Liberal attempts to challenge Conservative hegemony, and it fueled further working-class protests.

COLLATERAL DAMAGE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-78
Author(s):  
Alain Joffe
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Welfare System ◽  
Welfare Recipients ◽  
Collateral Damage ◽  
Dependent Children ◽  
Free Riders ◽  
Reform Debate

As the welfare-reform debate begins to boil, the place to begin is with an elemental fact: no child in America asked to be here. Each was summoned into existence by the acts of adults. And no child is going to be spiritually improved by being collateral damage in a bombardment of severities targeted at adults who may or may not deserve more severe treatment from the welfare system. Phil Gramm says welfare recipients are people "in the wagon" who ought to get out and "help the rest of us pull." Well. Of the 14 million people receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 9 million are children. Even if we get all these free-riders into wee harnesses, the wagon will not move much faster.

Court Reform, Klērōtēria, and Comic Testimony

2015 ◽  
Vol 111 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-416
Author(s):  
Edwin Carawan
Keyword(s):  
Court Reform
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