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Contents -- Introduction: Tales of Democracy and Law -- 1 Deliberative Trouble -- 2 Constitutional Principles without Constitutional Theories -- 3 Against Tradition -- 4 What Should Constitutions Say? Secession and Beyond -- 5 Impeaching the President -- 6 Democracy and Rights: The Nondelegation Canons -- 7 The Anticaste Principle -- 8 Homosexuality and the Constitution -- 9 Sex Equality vs. Religion -- 10 Social and Economic Rights? Lessons from South Africa -- Conclusion: Democracy's Constitution -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K

In the early-1980s, the US Congress and many state legislatures passed a wave of "hate crime" laws requiring the collection of statistics on, and enhancing punishments for, crimes motivated by certain prejudices. This book places the evolution of the hate crime concept in socio-legal perspective

The role of international actors in national accountability processes / Naomi Roht-Arriaza -- Settling accounts with the past in a troubled transition to democracy : the Portuguese case / Ant(c)đnio Costa Pinto -- Justice, politics and memory in the Spanish transition / Paloma Aguilar -- Truth, justice, memory, and democratization in the southern cone / Alexandra Barahona de Brito -- War, peace, and memory politics in Central America / Rachel Sieder -- Justice and legitimacy in the South African transition / Richard A. Wilson -- De-communization and political justice in central and eastern Europe / Carmen Gonz(c)Łlez-Enr(c)Ưquez -- East Germany : incorporation, tainted truth, and the double division / Jan-Werner M(c)ơller -- In search of identity : the collapse of the Soviet Union and the recreation of Russia / Nanci Adler

In exploring the unnatural history of natural calamity, this book surveys more than a century of losses from weather and seismic extremes, exposing the fallacy of seeing such calamities as simply random events. The author shows that is always America's poor, elderly, and minorities who suffer most