Nation-State A state is a territorial political community for which there is an independent organized Government. A nation state is a state whose primary loyalty is to a cultural self-identity‚ which we call a nation or nationality‚ and is now the predominant form of state organization. Nation states possess sovereignty and legitimacy. The significance of the nation state is that‚ once consolidated around a particular nationality‚ it is a stable form of state organization. Event history analysis
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Serbia to be liable for the committing the genocide. Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness. Defences that can be invoked by the state that committing wrongful act. A few defences can be invoked as stated in draft article. Legal Consequences of Internationally Wrongful Acts 1. Reparation‚ what are the modes of reparation can be conferred to victim state. 2. Genocide Case. The court held that there is a breach of genocide convention as failure of Serbia duty to prosecute the perpetrator
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The modern state The rise of the "modern state" as a public power constituting the supreme political authority within a defined territory is associated with western Europe’s gradual institutional development beginning in earnest in the late 15th century‚ culminating in the rise of absolutism and capitalism. As Europe’s dynastic states England under the Tudors‚ Spain under the Hapsburgs‚ and France under the Bourbons embarked on a variety of programs designed to increase centralized political
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The distribution process of an Independent Retailer and Multiple Retailer Independent retailer is a single retail outlet‚ or a chain of two or three stores‚ managed by either a sole trader or a family firm. Independent retailers seem to use the ‘Brick and Mortar’ method of distributing goods and services to their customers. A traditional "street-side" business that deals with its customers face to face in an office or store that the business owns or rents. The local grocery store and the corner
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The case came to be known as the National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius case. There were several issues raise by the anti-Obamacare side. First of all‚ they argued that the law mandated all citizens to pay towards the insurance scheme‚ even though not all citizens were supportive of the move. They also made a spirited appeal to prove the increased tax burden that the new law would impose on the highest income earners in the country. The argument was that they would be required to
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What forms of surveillance and data collection by the state fundamentally altered the way it relates to its citizens? (Question 2 paragraph 6 from Surveillance: Citizens and the State Volume 1: Report House of Lords select committee on the Constitution 2nd report of Session 2008-09). Introduction The UK is increasingly sleep walking into a surveillance society[1] to the extent that it has become an inescapable part of life.[2] Every time we make a telephone call‚ send an email‚ browse the
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politics affected voter turn out or behavior? With the increasing rise of partisan politics in government and elections it seems as if the United States is becoming strictly black and white‚ Democrat or Republican‚ with very little room for gray areas in between. The Democratic and Republican parties are moving farther and farther apart from each other with Democrats becoming increasingly closer to the liberal end of the spectrum and Republicans moving towards the conservative end. Voters are seemingly
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applies to Bait-ul-maal‚ where Allah is sole master of this treasury while the caliphs are only the trustee of Bait-ul-Maal. In this sense the concept of Bait-ul-maal is different from the concept of public exchequer in un-Islamic systems. In an Islamic state Bait-ul-maal is Safeguarded and expenditures from it is made in the sense that it is a trust. Definition So how can we define bait-ul-maal? It is the place which is designed for keeping the spoils of war‚ charity‚ land tax and Jizyah (the tax which
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INDEPENDENT LEARNING Learning is a way to access information through different sources‚ different people acquire different methods or strategies to add up their knowledge or to keep themselves up to date. By learning one can acquire new or modify existing knowledge‚ skills or values and can enhance the power of information‚ learning ability is the main quality processed by humans but it is present in animals also to some extent‚ basically learning comes with the experience‚ every one learns something
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Your role is to decide if Karen is an independent contractor or an employee and discuss some of the preventative and ethical situations that are occurring in this case. Questions: 1. Do you feel that Karen is an independent contractor or an employee? What is your rationale for this decision? In my opinion Karen should be a considered a permanent employee as she has been working and promoted in the company for five years and she is considered an asset to them‚ she is paid in salary already
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