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In the fourth of the Federalist Papers, published in 1787, John Jay warned of absolute monarchs who "will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it." More than two centuries later, are single executives making unilateral decisions any more trustworthy? And have the checks on executive power, so critical in the Founders' drafting of the Constitution, held? These are the questions Louis Fisher pursues in this book.

9th International Conference on Control, Modelling, Computing and Applications (CMCA 2020) August 22~23, 2020, Chennai, India https://www.cseij.org/cmca/index.html Scope 9th International Conference on Control, Modelling, Computing and Applications (CMCA 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Control Engineering, Modelling, Computing and Applications. The goal of this Conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Modern Control Engineering, Modelling and Computing concepts and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Authors are solicited to contribute to the conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of control engineering, modelling, computing & applications Topics of Interest • Adaptive Control • Applications of Modelling in Science and Engineering • Automation Systems • Computer Controlled Systems • Computer Vision • Computational Science • Control Devices and Instruments • Control Theory • Data Mining • Design System and Algorithms • Embedded Systems • Fault Detection and Isolation • Flight Control and Surveillance Systems • Genetic Algorithms an Evolutionary Computing • Guidance Control Systems • Industry, Military and Space Applications • Information Systems • Linear and Nonlinear Control Systems • Intelligent Control Systems • Mathematical Modelling and Control • Measurement Systems • Multimedia Systems • Networks and Communication • Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic • Optimization and Optimal Control • Process Control and Instrumentation • Robotics • Robust Control • Scientific Computing • Signal and Image Processing • Simulation Techniques • Soft Computing Techniques • Stochastic Control and Filtering • Systems and Automation • System Identification and Control Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers ...

11th International conference on Database Management Systems (DMS 2020) November 21~22, 2020, Zurich, Switzerland https://cst2020.org/dms/index.html Call for Papers 11th International conference on Database Management Systems (DMS 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Database Management Systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding Modern developments in this field and establishing new collaborations in these areas. Authors are solicited to contribute to this conference by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Database management systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following  5G and Networks for Big Data  Big Data Analytics and Social Media  Big Data Applications, Bioinformatics, Multimedia etc  Big Data Infrastructure and platform  Big Data Management  Big Data Mining  Big Data Search and Mining  Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust  Big Data Techniques, models and algorithms  Big Data Tools and systems  Cloud and grid computing for Big Data  Constraint Modelling and Processing  Data and information Integration and Modelling  Data and Information Networks  Data and Information Privacy and Security  Data and Information Quality  Data and Information Semantics  Data and Information Streams  Data Management in Grid and P2P Systems  Data Mining Algorithms  Data Mining Applications  Data Mining Foundations  Data Mining Systems, Data Warehousing, OLAP  Data Structures and Data Management Algorithms  Database and Information System Architecture and Performance  DB Systems & Applications  Digital Libraries  Distributed, Parallel, P2P and Grid-based Databases  Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies  Electronic Government and eParticipation  Expert ...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition: -- Preface -- Part I: SLAVERY IN THEORY AND PRACTICE -- 1. The New World and Slavery -- 2. Negroes and Slavery -- 3. The "Peculiar Institution" -- 4. Effects of Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Eras -- 5. Stabilizing the Slave System -- 6. Spanish and American Slavery Compared -- 7. Slavery as a "Positive Good" -- 8. Slavery as a Way of Life -- 9. The Challenge of Freedom -- 10. The Verdict of War -- 11. The Continuing Debate -- Part II: READINGS -- 1. Andrew Jackson Seeks a Runaway -- 2. Indian Slavers -- 3. The Slave Trader: His Life and Outlook -- 4. James Fenimore Cooper On Slavery in New York -- 5. Frederick Law Olmsted: An Antislavery Opinion in North Carolina -- 6. Emancipation Proclamation: What It Did and Did Not Do -- 7. Codes" and the Negro: Their Purpose and Variety -- 8. The Northern Response to Freedmen -- 9. Conditions Affecting Slavery: Illinois and the West Indies -- 10. A Slave Defends Slavery -- 11. John J. Audubon Encounters a Runaway -- 12. John C. Calhoun Responds to Abolitionists -- 13. The Free Negro: His Enslavement -- 14. Colonization and the Free Negro -- 15. Colonization and the Slave -- 16. The Folklore of Rebellion: The Appeal of Nat Turner -- 17. A Foreign View: Charles Dickens on Slavery -- 18. Frances Anne Kemble:An Insider's View of Slavery? -- 19. William Wells Brown:Pictures of Slave Life -- 20. William Still:Chronicles of Enslavement -- 21. Harriet Beecher Stowe:The Sale of Uncle Tom -- 22. The Border States: A Slave's Wedding -- 23. Slavery for Northerners: A Proposal -- 24. The Proslavery Answer to British Criticism -- 25. Henry Clay: What Is to Be Done? -- 26. Frederick Douglass on"The Slavery Party" -- 27. Hinton Rowan Helper: Slavery Renounced

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Introduction -- Part I: Past and Present -- Great Expectations -- Vehicles for Change -- Liberal Syndrome: The Politics of Hope -- The People's Press -- "Common Scold" -- William Lyon Mackenzie -- Moments of Truth: Progressivism and War -- Part II: Industry -- The Machine in the Garden -- Public Service and the Scapegoat -- Panaceas -- The Goo Goos -- Josephine Shaw Lowell -- Tom Watson and the Negroes -- Labor, Immigrants, and Reform -- Man of Action, Man of Words -- The Old Populism -- Part III: Progressivism -- Imperialism -- Theo -- The New Time -- The New Journalism -- Writer-Reformers -- Issues -- Romance and Reality -- Progressives -- Woodrow Wilson -- High Noon -- Consolidations -- Armageddon -- Shadows Forward -- Progress and Progressivism -- Bibliographical Note -- Index