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This article discusses the commercial, socio-economic and legal dynamics of slave trading in Egypt on the basis of papyri from the AH third-fourth/ninth-tenth centuries CE. Particular focus is given to the activities of slavers, the networks of professional slave traders, the socio-economics of slave acquisition, and commercial dynamics at slave markets. Much of the discussion draws on the contents of five contemporary papyrus documents that are presented, translated and annotated in the appendix.

For centuries, throne and alter were considered indivisible in the Russian Empire. Nonetheless, after the outbreak of the First World War, one searches in vain for aggressive church support for the monarchy. The harmony of church and state had eroded. There is nothing analogous to Protestant war theologians or Catholic war sermons. There are theological reasons for this. The church legitimized the war, because it served to defend 'Russian soil'. Theologians and religious philosophers used the struggle against the Central Powers as an opportunity to redefine the Slavophile idea. Some saw the war as a signal to overcome the divisions within the Orthodox world. But the church largely limited itself to alleviating the misery that followed in the wake of the war: pastorally on the front, charitably at home. Adapted from the source document.

This study examines the relationship between supervisors' transformational leadership behaviors and their work groups' subsequent affective well-being and job satisfaction under specific moderating conditions (collective efficacy and perceptions of meaningful work). Longitudinal data from 42 work groups in a Canadian government organization was used to test the proposed relationships. Work groups' collective efficacy has a significant moderating effect on the relationship between transformational leadership and positive group affective well-being. Specifically, groups with lower levels of collective efficacy exhibit a stronger relationship between transformational leadership behaviours and both affective well-being and job satisfaction. ; May 2010

The Orthodox Church has been discussing human rights for several years. Official documents or positions of leading representatives of the church have from time to time caused irritation among Western observers. Upon closer examination of the sociological, historical, and theological backgrounds to these positions, the seemingly sharp contrast between East and West begins to dissolve. The Orthodox churches still lack a definite position, but they very well indeed have the potential for a well-grounded position of their own on human rights. Adapted from the source document.

The statutes & paragraphs from German basic constitutional law & decisions by the country's constitutional court are interpreted in a discussion of the parliamentarians' right to know & the administrative branch's duty to share information about its intended policies & actions or intentions to promulgate new laws & regulations. The country's legal-constitutive framework delimiting the rights of the legislative body vs the duty of the executive branch is investigated. The legislative & control functions of the parliament in a parliamentarian democracy are described. The procedures in place in the German constitutional law regulating the Bundestag's right to obtain information from the executive branch & the latter's duties to provide it are outlined. Some controversial cases decided by the German constitutional court are reported. Z. Dubiel

Should foes of the constitution declare an assembly to publicize their political agenda against the liberal democratic fundamental order, the authorities face the problem of interdicting assembly on the basis of the protection of the constitution. Should a constitutional state be at risk, its protection supersedes the protection of the rights of the individual. The author examines the interdiction of assembly in case of jeopardizing public order & the constitutional permutation of the militant democracy. He concludes that constitutional freedom as well as democracy cannot be absolute even under constitutional law. E. Sanchez