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- 151: Death Can Come Too Late: Active and Passive Euthanasia
- ... his or her consent, is a fundamental moral difference. No one thinks that making killing in self-defense an exception to criminal homicide starts society on a slippery slope which logically must end in the abolition of the crime of murder; one simply does not follow from the other. And so it is that endorsing active euthanasia will not inevitably lead us to become a society of murderers. One way to ...
- 152: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise
- ... had survived for a thousand years. Young girls were thereafter spared the tortures of footbinding, although older women with bound feet may still be seen in China and Taiwan.[35] Nonetheless, the manner of the abolition of footbinding was both chaotic and unfair, with sloganeering and excesses of the anti-footbinding movement of the 1920's reminiscent of Cultural Revolution excesses, claiming many families as its victims.[36] Ironically, those with ...
- 153: Imperialism
- ... and naval power. This state of affairs, however, was complex and far from stable. The old mercantile Empire was weakened during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by a number of factors: by the abolition in 1807 of slavery in Britain itself, a movement led by the Evangelicals ; by the freeing in 1833 of slaves held elsewhere in the Empire; by the adoption, after a radical change in economic perspective ...
- 154: The Triple E Senate of Canada
- ... of Canada Public interest in the Senate is currently stronger than it ever has been. Nearly everyone agrees that our present Senate is unsatisfactory. Political parties such as the New Democratic Party want the outright abolition of the Senate while others such as the Reform Party want to elect it. Since the Senate has not been considered an effective forum for regional representation- which was one of the reasons for its ...
- 155: The Rise of Communism in Russia
- ... replace the old Russian army which had dissolved during the revolution. Many Communists wanted to new military force to be built up on strictly revolutionary principles, with guerrilla tactics, the election of officers, and the abolition of traditional discipline. Trotsky set himself emphatically against this attitude and demanded an army organized in the conventional way and employing "military specialists" -- experienced officers from the old army. Hostilities between the Communists and the ...
- 156: The Republican Party: Overall Issues, 1860-1868
- ... Emancipation Proclamation, the Republicans gained freedom for slaves, but not social or political equality. During the years of 1864-1868, the Republican platform again changed with the public opinion in the North to one of abolition. In the platform for the National Union Convention, the party affirmed its support for an Amendment to "terminate and forever prohibit the existence of slavery within the limits or jurisdiction of the United States." The ...
- 157: Political Parties During the Civil War
- ... fought together against their common Democratic enemy. Radicals wanted to use the war to end slavery and, to some degree, to reshape the society and power structure of the South. The moderates agreed on the abolition of slavery, but rejected the idea of imposing racial equality or attempting to reshape the South's social and economic structure. President Lincoln skillfully played off one faction against another, and after his death the ...
- 158: The Rise of Communism in Russia
- ... replace the old Russian army which had dissolved during the revolution. Many Communists wanted to new military force to be built up on strictly revolutionary principles, with guerrilla tactics, the election of officers, and the abolition of traditional discipline. Trotsky set himself emphatically against this attitude and demanded an army organized in the conventional way and employing military specialists -- experienced officers from the old army. Hostilities between the Communists and the ...
- 159: Has Political Islam Failed in Algeria?
- ... FIS wanted. On the 29th December 1989 they mobilized the "one of the most important opposition demonstrations in the history of independent Algeria." The mob was asking for the application of Sharia law and the abolition of mixed education. They wanted different schools for the different genders. The FIS did that again on 20th of April. Despite the fact that the government tried its best to scatter the mob and used ...
- 160: Mexico
- ... a political rebellion was begun by the Mexican people. War for Independence On September 16, 1810, Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a priest in the small village of Dolores, raised the standard of revolt, demanding the abolition of Native American serfdom and caste distinctions. Although initially successful, the Hidalgo revolt was short-lived. The priest was captured by royalist forces and shot at Chihuahua in 1811. The leadership in the liberation movement ...
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