The Battle on the Second Amendment. The Issue of Private Ownership of Guns in the United States by Laura Corti

“… The Second Amendment of the American Constitution arguably contains the formulation of the citizen’s right to a private ownership of guns. …”
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The Fight to Bear Arms: Challenging the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution as a Sacred Text by John McNamara

“…This article examines the manner in which constitutional law in the United States serves to preserve, accentuate and institutionalise what Robert Bellah referred to as the ‘Civil Religion’ of the nation (1967). …”
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The "GOOD GUY WITH A GUN” CONCEPT IN THE AMERICAN GUN CULTURE AND GUN CONTROL POLICY by Karol Mazur

“… The United States has one of the most controversial gun laws in the modern world. …”
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Religious Rivalries, Hegemony of Liberalism, and Institutionalization of Secularism: The Case Study of the United States (1776-1980) by Hamid Ahmadi, Borhan Salimi

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Call for Papers: Constitutions and Intergenerational Justice by IF and FRFG

“…This tension between durability and flexibility finds expression in Edmund Burke’s concept of a constitution as an intergenerational covenant. It also informs the discussion among Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), James Madison (1751–1836) and Thomas Paine (1737–1809) in the course of founding the United States of America. …”
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Call for Papers: Constitutions and Intergenerational Justice by IF and FRFG

“…This tension between durability and flexibility finds expression in Edmund Burke’s concept of a constitution as an intergenerational covenant. It also informs the discussion among Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), James Madison (1751–1836) and Thomas Paine (1737–1809) in the course of founding the United States of America. …”
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Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment Concerns with the BoP Guidelines for Advance Directives by Benjamin N. Parks

“…Code § 1983 reads: Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable…”
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Same-sex Marriage: How it all began in the USA by Nikolić Oliver P.

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The Concept of Village Autonomy in Indonesia (Indonesian Constitution Perspective) by Rifqi Ridlo Phahlevy

“…Article 18B and 28I of the second amendment of The 1945 Constitution of The State of Republic of Indonesia (UUD 45) state that the villages can have independent governments, by giving the alternative of village autonomy. …”
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Marketing madness by Anne Zimmerman

“…The Sorrel decision is based on the notion of corporate free speech, a concept that encompasses two conditions: first, that corporations are speakers entitled to First Amendment protection; and, second, that advertising and marketing constitute “speech.” …”
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Nation state formation in Malaysia (1945-1974) by Mohd. Ashraf Ibrahim

“…The aim of this research is to discuss the process of a nation state formation by the British colonial government after the Second World War (1945) until the formation of the National Front Party (1974). …”
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Evolution of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and its Effects on Criminal Law by Gholam Hussein Elham, Rasul Abed

“…Under this circumstance, the founders of United StatesConstitution allocated the second amendment to this right. …”
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Pola Pengelolaan Kekayaan Nagari Dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Dalam Peningkatan Kesejahteraan by Lerri Pattra

“…The existence of nagari as a legal community unit in the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia has a constitutional basis in Article 18 B paragraph (2) of the 1945 Constitution, the article states "The state recognizes and respects the unity of customary law communities and their traditional rights ...". …”
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The rights of disabled prisoners in Malaysia / Sorahatul Amizah Aminudin ... [et al.] by Aminudin, Sorahatul Amizah, Rashid, Nurayuni, Ahmad Khairuddin, Nur 'Izzati, Sazahan, Nadia Emira

“…This paper was conducted to make a research on the rights of disabled prisoners in Malaysia as compared to the United State of America. In Malaysia there are a few laws that governed the right of disabled person under the Person with Disabilities Act 2008 and the law that governed the prisoners under Prison Act 1995 but there were still unclear rights and no specific Act that been amended so far about the disabled prisoners in Malaysia .This research also be looking at the Federal Constitution and Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities to know whether the rights was provided under these laws. …”
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Rehousing homeless families in Massachusetts : an analysis of "best practice" in Boston and Worcester by Delgado, Laura Humm

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Formation of Czech-Slovak Relations during the 25 years after the division of the federation by Petr Jurčík, M. Gubaidullina

“…Bilateral relations between the Czech Republic and Slovakia are distinguished by their peacefulness and the absence of any conflicts. Both states are connected by a common historical past, a single unit in the first, second and third republics. …”
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Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission): Briefing on Truth, Reconciliation, and Healing Toward a Unified Future Thursday, July 18, 2019

“…The institution of slavery lasted throughout the formative centuries of the United States, 1619?1865 and officially ended because of the Civil War and the 13th Amendment to the U.S. constitution. …”
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Legal protection of air pollution in Iraq by Ashour, Ameel Jabbar, Abdul Wahab, Harlida

“…Additionally, the special law of the environment represented by the law of protecting and improving the environment No. 13 in 1997 was amended by Law No. 27 in 2009.Many provisions under this law legislate the protection of the environment from air pollution crimes and the protection of individuals and cities by criminalizing every act that constitutes an assault to the environment. …”
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The European Synarchy: New Discourses on Sovereignty by Dimitris N. Chryssochoou

“…Also, its constituent parts, in the form of historically constituted nation-states, are free to dissociate themselves from the larger unit. …”
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