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Book Duty to Dissent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoff Keelan
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2019-11-01
  • ISBN : 077483885X
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Duty to Dissent written by Geoff Keelan and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the First World War, Henri Bourassa – fierce Canadian nationalist, politician, and journalist from Quebec – took centre stage in the national debates on Canada’s participation in the war, its imperial ties to Britain, and Canada’s place in the world. In Duty to Dissent, Geoff Keelan draws upon Bourassa’s voluminous editorials in Le Devoir, the newspaper he founded in 1910, to trace Bourassa’s evolving perspective on the war’s meaning and consequences. What emerges is not a simplistic sketch of a local journalist engaged in national debates, as most English Canadians know him, but a fully rendered portrait of a Canadian looking out at the world.

Book  The Duty of Dissent

Download or read book The Duty of Dissent written by Donald G. Lothrop and published by . This book was released on 1956* with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Patriotic Duty to Dissent

Download or read book Our Patriotic Duty to Dissent written by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Simply Brilliant

Download or read book Simply Brilliant written by William C. Taylor and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There's no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business. In fact, the opportunity to reach for extraordinary may be most pronounced in settings that have been far too ordinary for far too long' Far away from Silicon Valley, in familiar, traditional, even unglamorous fields, ordinary people are unleashing extraordinary advances that amaze customers, energize employees, and create huge economic value. Their secret? They understand that inventing the future doesn't just mean designing mobile apps and developing virtual-reality headsets. In Simply Brilliant, the visionary co-founder of Fast Company William C. Taylor goes behind the scenes at some of the unsung organizations that are revolutionizing their otherwise humdrum fields. These unlikely agents of change range from a parking garage that also serves as a wedding venue, to a military insurance company that puts salespeople through simulated overseas deployment. The message is both simple and subversive: in a time of wrenching disruptions and exhilarating leaps, of unrelenting turmoil and unlimited promise, the future is open to everybody. Simply Brilliant illustrates how breakthrough creativity and breakaway performance can be summoned in all industries, if leaders dare to reimagine what's possible in their fields.

Book Dissent  Voices of Conscience

Download or read book Dissent Voices of Conscience written by Ann Wright and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of men and women, who risked careers, reputations, and even freedom for truth.

Book Hints Illustrative of the Duty of Dissent

Download or read book Hints Illustrative of the Duty of Dissent written by Thomas Binney and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Fiduciary Duty of Dissent

Download or read book The Fiduciary Duty of Dissent written by Joseph W. Yockey and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Organizations increasingly identify “dissent”—meaning the expression of disagreement with organizational strategies, decisions, or actions by employees who lack the power to execute change on their own—as a best practice and core value. But despite these pronouncements, employees at all levels often remain silent. Even powerful directors on corporate boards routinely decline to express disagreement with what they assume is the majority consensus. Alarmingly, this mindset can extend to critical safety issues. When asked why they do not speak up, many employees cite a fear of adverse personal or professional repercussions. Others simply believe that speaking up is pointless because they will be ignored. When these attitudes prevail, firms are deprived of the important knowledge gains that result from dissent. In extreme cases, the lack of dissent can lead to major ethical lapses and even the loss of human life. This Article argues that organizational dissent is much more than a facet of management ethics and good institutional citizenship; it is a firmly embedded—albeit traditionally overlooked—feature of classic fiduciary law. By illuminating the strong pro-dissent norms that are inherent in the traditional duties of care, loyalty, and performance owed by corporate fiduciaries, this Article reconceptualizes dissent as a fiduciary duty. In so doing, it not only reinvigorates the academic and legal understanding of organizational dissent; it also gives new teeth to managerial efforts to stimulate meaningful dissent. A fiduciary understanding of dissent enhances organizational engagement with dissent and helps to re-center efforts to promote compliance, manage risk, and diversify all levels of organizations, including corporate boards.”

Book Revolutionary Dissent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen D. Solomon
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2016-04-26
  • ISBN : 1466879394
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Revolutionary Dissent written by Stephen D. Solomon and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When members of the founding generation protested against British authority, debated separation, and then ratified the Constitution, they formed the American political character we know today-raucous, intemperate, and often mean-spirited. Revolutionary Dissent brings alive a world of colorful and stormy protests that included effigies, pamphlets, songs, sermons, cartoons, letters and liberty trees. Solomon explores through a series of chronological narratives how Americans of the Revolutionary period employed robust speech against the British and against each other. Uninhibited dissent provided a distinctly American meaning to the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and press at a time when the legal doctrine inherited from England allowed prosecutions of those who criticized government. Solomon discovers the wellspring in our revolutionary past for today's satirists like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann, and protests like flag burning and street demonstrations. From the inflammatory engravings of Paul Revere, the political theater of Alexander McDougall, the liberty tree protests of Ebenezer McIntosh and the oratory of Patrick Henry, Solomon shares the stories of the dissenters who created the American idea of the liberty of thought. This is truly a revelatory work on the history of free expression in America.

Book Patriotic Dissent

Download or read book Patriotic Dissent written by Daniel A. Sjursen and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is patriotism in our volatile age? This incendiary work by Danny Sjursen is a personal cry from the heart by a once model U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate who became a military dissenter while still on active duty. Set against the backdrop of the terror wars of the last two decades, Sjursen asks whether there is a proper space for patriotism that renounces entitled exceptionalism and narcissistic jingoism. Once a burgeoning believer and budding conservative, who performed an intellectual and spiritual about face, Sjursen calls for a critical exploration of our allegiances, and suggests a path to a new, more complex notion of patriotism. Equal parts somber and idealistic, this is a story about what it means to be an American in the midst of perpetual war, and what the future of patriotism might look like.

Book I Dissent

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Tushnet
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release : 2008-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780807000366
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book I Dissent written by Mark Tushnet and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a collection of dissents from the most famous Supreme Court cases If American history can truly be traced through the majority decisions in landmark Supreme Court cases, then what about the dissenting opinions? In issues of race, gender, privacy, workers' rights, and more, would advances have been impeded or failures rectified if the dissenting opinions were in fact the majority opinions? In offering thirteen famous dissents-from Marbury v. Madison and Brown v. Board of Education to Griswold v. Connecticut and Lawrence v. Texas, each edited with the judges' eloquence preserved-renowned Supreme Court scholar Mark Tushnet reminds us that court decisions are not pronouncements issued by the utterly objective, they are in fact political statements from highly intelligent but partisan people. Tushnet introduces readers to the very concept of dissent in the courts and then provides useful context for each case, filling in gaps in the Court's history and providing an overview of the issues at stake. After each case, he considers the impact the dissenting opinion would have had, if it had been the majority decision. Lively and accessible, I Dissent offers a radically fresh view of the judiciary in a collection that is essential reading for anyone interested in American history.

Book The Great Dissent

Download or read book The Great Dissent written by Thomas Healy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on newly discovered letters and memos, this riveting scholarly history of the conservative justice who became a free-speech advocate and established the modern understanding of the First Amendment reconstructs his journey from free-speech skeptic to First Amendment hero.

Book Obligation and Dissent

Download or read book Obligation and Dissent written by Donald W. Hanson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissent and the Supreme Court

Download or read book Dissent and the Supreme Court written by Melvin I. Urofsky and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Highly illuminating ... for anyone interested in the Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the American democracy, lawyer and layperson alike." —The Los Angeles Review of Books In his major work, acclaimed historian and judicial authority Melvin Urofsky examines the great dissents throughout the Court’s long history. Constitutional dialogue is one of the ways in which we as a people reinvent and reinvigorate our democratic society. The Supreme Court has interpreted the meaning of the Constitution, acknowledged that the Court’s majority opinions have not always been right, and initiated a critical discourse about what a particular decision should mean before fashioning subsequent decisions—largely through the power of dissent. Urofsky shows how the practice grew slowly but steadily, beginning with the infamous and now overturned case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) during which Chief Justice Roger Taney’s opinion upheld slavery and ending with the present age of incivility, in which reasoned dialogue seems less and less possible. Dissent on the court and off, Urofsky argues in this major work, has been a crucial ingredient in keeping the Constitution alive and must continue to be so.

Book The Principles of Dissent  and the Duties of Dissenters

Download or read book The Principles of Dissent and the Duties of Dissenters written by John Angell James and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dissent  Democracy  and Foreign Policy

Download or read book Dissent Democracy and Foreign Policy written by Oscar Handlin and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Salvation through Dissent

    Book Details:
  • Author : George L. Kallander
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2013-01-31
  • ISBN : 082483786X
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Salvation through Dissent written by George L. Kallander and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular teaching that combined elements of Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, folk beliefs, and Catholicism, Tonghak (Eastern Learning) is best known for its involvement in a rebellion that touched off the Sino-Japanese War (1894–1895) and accelerated Japanese involvement in Korea. Through a careful reading of sources—including religious works and biographies many of which are translated and annotated here into English for the first time—Salvation through Dissent traces Tonghak’s rise amidst the debates over orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910) and its impact on religious and political identity from 1860 to 1906. It argues that the teachings of founder Ch’oe Cheu (1824–1864) attracted a large following among rural Koreans by offering them spiritual and material promises to relieve conditions such as poverty and disease and provided consolation in a tense geo-political climate. Following Ch’oe Cheu’s martyrdom, his successors reshaped Tonghak doctrine and practice not only to ensure the survival of the religious community, but also address shifting socio-political needs. Their call for religious and social reforms led to an uprising in 1894 and subsequent military intervention by China and Japan. The work locates the origins of Korea’s twentieth-century religious nationalist movement in the aftermath of the 1894 rebellion, the resurgence of Japanese power after the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), and the re-creation of Tonghak as Ch’ŏngogyo (the Religion of the Heavenly Way) in 1905. As a study of religion and politics, Salvation through Dissent adds a new layer of understanding to Korea’s changing interactions with the world and the world’s involvement with Korea. In addition to students and scholars of Korea’s early modern period, it will appeal to those interested in global politics, Chinese and Japanese studies, world religion, international relations, and peasant history. The extensive, annotated translations will be of particular use in courses on Korea, East Asia, and global religion.