The Copyright Clause of the U. S. Constitution: Why Did the Framers Include It with Unanimous Approval?

1992 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irah Donner
Keyword(s):  
Unanimous Approval

The EU after Brexit

2020 ◽  
pp. 83-109
Author(s):  
Federico Fabbrini
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Fiscal Federalism ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
The European Union ◽  
New Horizons ◽  
The One ◽  
Unanimous Approval ◽  
Amendment Procedure ◽  
The Eu

This chapter focuses on the European Union after Brexit and articulates the case for constitutional reforms. Reforms are necessary to address the substantive and institutional shortcomings that patently emerged in the context of Europe’s old and new crises. Moreover, reforms will be compelled by the exigencies of the post-Covid-19 EU recovery, which pushes the EU towards new horizons in terms of fiscal federalism and democratic governance. As a result, the chapter considers both obstacles and opportunities to reform the EU and make it more effective and legitimate. On the one hand, it underlines the difficulties connected to the EU treaty amendment procedure, owing to the requirement of unanimous approval of any treaty change, and the consequential problem of the veto. On the other hand, it emphasizes the increasing practice by Member States to use intergovernmental agreements outside the EU legal order and stresses that these have set new rules on their entry into force which overcome state veto, suggesting that this is now a precedent to consider.

“Different than an infantry unit down in Georgia”: Narratives of queer liberation in the post-DADT military

Sexualities ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 776-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Connell
Keyword(s):  
Officer Training ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Don't Ask Don't Tell ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rotc Cadets ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Unanimous Approval

More than five years out from its implementation, we still know relatively little about how members of the US military and its ancillary institutions are responding to the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Contrary to what one might expect given the long history of LGBTQ antipathy in the military, I found in interviews with Boston area Reserve Officer Training Core (ROTC) cadets unanimous approval for the repeal of DADT. When pressed to explain why there was so much homogeneity of favorable opinion regarding the repeal, interviewees repeatedly offered the same explanation: that Boston, in particular, is such a progressive place that even more conservative institutions like the ROTC are spared anti-gay sentiment. They imagined the Southern and/or rural soldier they will soon encounter when they enter the US military, one who represents the traditionally homophobic attitudes of the old military in contrast to their more enlightened selves. This “metronormative” narrative has been critiqued elsewhere as inadequate for understanding the relationship between sexuality and place; this article contributes to that critique by taking a new approach. Rather than deconstruct narratives of queer rurality, as the majority of metronormativity scholarship has done, I deconstruct these narratives of urban queer liberation. I find that such narratives mask the murkier realities of LGBTQ attitudes in urban contexts and allow residents like the ROTC cadets in this study to displace blame about anti-gay prejudice to a distant Other, outside of their own ranks.

Social Practice, Interdisciplinary Perspective

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Shevtsova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Western World ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Mental Space ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Unanimous Approval

The structuration and definition of disciplines – an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century project – gave way, in the second half of the twentieth century in the European and American academies, to their destructuration, although certainly not everywhere, nor to unanimous approval. For all the resistance that it has encountered, however, this movement towards the dissolution of disciplinary boundaries has taken root. It can be traced back to the 1960s, a period whose economic growth and economic optimism freed up mental space, allowing energies to focus on political and sociocultural injustices and inequalities and thereby fermenting that ‘cultural revolution’ for which the 1960s are now most remembered in the affluent ‘western’ world. ‘Cultural’ here embraces, as it did at the time, the anthropological notion of culture as belief, knowledge, morals, customs and, among others, symbolic representation, thus also theatre and performance.

DIVISION III REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-568
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Good Work ◽  
Afternoon Session ◽  
Board Meeting ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Division Iii ◽  
Associate Membership ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Unanimous Approval

Resignations of the following members were accepted: Cole B. Gibson, Meriden, Conn.; Hector Cantonnet, Montevideo, Uruguay; Rito Etchelar, Montevideo, Uruguay; Julio Lorenzo y Deal, Montevideo, Uruguay; Alejandro Volpe, Montevideo, Uruguay. William S. Langford, New York, was elected to Associate Fellowship. The following letter from Dr. Vernon W. Spickard, Seattle, was read and discussed: "Before the next Board meeting I would like to submit a plan to take into the Academy as associate members a large number of practicing pediatricians who are doing good work for the children of the country but who may not have met the American Board of Pediatrics' requirements or who are unable to pass the Board. "This group would pay full dues, but have no vote. I believe each applicant should have the unanimous approval of all the members in his state. "There is a large group of these men active in local and regional pediatric societies, where associate membership would make enthusiastic supporters of the Academy, and we are going to need all the support we can get in the near future. "A change in the By-laws covering associate membership would be necessary. Let me know what you think of the idea. I am sure Dr. Martmer and others are strongly in favor of the idea." It was moved, seconded and carried that a committee of three be appointed by the President to take up this matter and report at the November meeting. The afternoon session convened at 2 p.m., President Sisson presiding. The Secretary's report was read as follows:

EDITORIAL

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 436-436
Author(s):  
JOHN P. HUBBARD
Keyword(s):  
Child Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Child Health Services ◽  
Executive Board ◽  
Federal Support ◽  
Pediatric Education ◽  
Unanimous Approval ◽  
Special Meeting

THE first step of the Committee for Improvement of Child Health has been a big one. The Committee has drawn up a recommendation for federal support of pediatric education. This recommendation arises directly out of the Academy's nation-wide two-year Study of Child Health Services and is the first specific action taken by the ICH Committee. It is a step which has not been undertaken lightly. The proposal was drawn up after consideration in two meetings and consultation with deans of medical schools and heads of pediatric departments, officials of the Federal Security Administration and others particularly concerned. The recommendation was then submitted to the Executive Board and received the unanimous approval of the Board at a special meeting in Chicago on February 8, 1948.

“That Late Villain Milton”

PMLA ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Milton French ◽  
Maurice Kelley
Keyword(s):  
Supplementary Note ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
Unanimous Approval

As a supplementary note to the volume of Milton's Letters of State in the Columbia edition of his Works (Volume XIII), as well as an illuminating guide to his reputation immediately subsequent to his death, when Williamson's phrase, “that late Villain Milton,” would have met with nearly unanimous approval, it seems worth while to furnish a summary of information bearing on their publication. The gathering of this material has been in progress now for some time. The principal contributors have been Sumner (in his edition of the Christian Doctrine), Hamilton, Masson, Tanner and Howarth (editors of Pepys), and Hanford. Their contributions being somewhat scattered, I have here brought together the chief items. I am also able to add several new letters which have not previously been published, to correct and clarify certain dates, and, I hope, to arrange the whole in such a way that its story unfolds logically and easily.

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