Can students really be understood to have rights? Cases like Tinker, Pico, Goss, Morse, and Mahanoy attempt to present students as independent agents, architects of their educations and initiators of
From its founding in 1914 to its height in the 1920s, the Universal Negro Improvement Association made elocution, public debate and recitation a central practice of the organization, signaling Garveyism’s
Democratic elections are meant to express the political authority and agency of ordinary citizens: people who, despite lacking special virtues, knowledge, or resources, are able, and entitled, to govern themselves
The prevailing approach in moral theory treats good samaritanism and attendant concepts like supererogation as issues within duty-based ethics. A samaritan is someone who “goes above and beyond” what a
One of the most notorious features of the French ancien régime was the practice of venality of office -- that is, the buying and selling of state offices that often
