A Sermon on the National Fast-Day

2012 ◽  
pp. 165-177
Author(s):  
Sabato Morais
Keyword(s):  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Book Of Isaiah ◽  
Introductory Section ◽  
The People ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Made In

This chapter takes a look at a sermon by Sabato Morais. Its structure is fairly straightforward. An introductory section focuses on what may appear to be a relatively minor issue but was apparently one that Morais considered to be of symbolic significance: the wording of the presidential proclamation of the national fast-day (made in response to a request by the Senate, possibly in response to the Southern day of prayer on 27 March). The body of the sermon presents two major themes. The first is introduced by the celebrated verses from the fifty-eighth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in which the prophet, speaking in God's behalf, castigates the people for the insincerity of their observance of a day of fasting and prayer. The chapter then turns to the second major theme: the repudiation of a dishonourable, ignominious peace that would come at the cost of dissolution of the American body politic.

George Washington vs. The Phantom

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Sizemore
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
George Washington ◽  
The People ◽  
Whiskey Rebellion

This chapter examines two competing forms of sovereign representation against the backdrop of the Whiskey Rebellion. In the new federal republic, George Washington served as a unifying symbol of the people in the centuries-long tradition of the monarch, but the very rituals of Washington’s office and also those of the rebels, such as tar-and-feathering, call attention to the first president’s limitations as symbol of the body politic. Rather than a static substance, the people are a protean force, a circumstance that prompts new forms of representation in Mason Locke Weems’s Life of Washington (1800), Hugh Henry Brackenridge’s Modern Chivalry (1797), and other works.

scholarly journals Immigration, Civil Rights & the Evolution of the People

Daedalus ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 142 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina M. Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
The Body ◽  
Immigrant Incorporation ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Full Membership ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
The People

In considering what it means to treat immigration as a “civil rights” matter, I identify two frameworks for analysis. The first, universalistic in nature, emanates from personhood and promises non-citizens the protection of generally applicable laws and an important set of constitutional rights. The second seeks full incorporation for non-citizens into “the people,” a composite that evolves over time through social contestation – a process that can entail enforcement of legal norms but that revolves primarily around political argument. This pursuit of full membership for non-citizens implicates a reciprocal relationship between them and the body politic, and the interests of the polity help determine the contours of non-citizens' membership. Each of these frameworks has been shaped by the legal and political legacies of the civil rights movement itself, but the second formulation reveals how the pursuit of immigrant incorporation cannot be fully explained as a modern-day version of the civil rights struggle.

scholarly journals Amendment of State Constitutions

1907 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Wilford Garner
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
State Constitutions ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Political Conservatism ◽  
The Right

The right of the people, acting within the bounds of the law and through organs constituted in conformity with the prescriptions of the existing constitution, to alter, amend, or abolish their form of government whenever they deem it necessary to their safety and happiness is, in effect, declared by practically every American bill of rights to be not only fundamental but inalienable and indefeasible. The phraseology differs in some of them but the substance is the same in all. Without such a right the mistakes and errors of the past could not be eliminated from the body politic nor the accumulated wisdom and experience of other States utilized. Without it, the fundamental maxim that constitutions grow instead of being made would be meaningless and political development impossible. An acute thinker has well observed that no constitution can expect to be permanent unless it guarantees progress as well as order. Political conservatism is a virtue too often trampled upon by statesmen, but it has its limits, and, in its exaggerated form, becomes a source of revolution. The amending power has been aptly compared to a safety valve which ought to be so adjusted as not to discharge its peculiar function with too great facility lest it become an escape pipe for party passion and political prejudice, nor with such difficulty that the force needed to induce action will explode the machine.

scholarly journals Cost of diabetes treatment in Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Marco Antonio Salinas
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Medical Diagnosis ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
The Body ◽  
Diabetes Treatment ◽  
Glucose Levels ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Blood Glucose Levels ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Made In

Diabetes mellitus, better known simply as "diabetes", is a chronic disease that occurs when elevated blood glucose levels occur because the body stops producing or does not produce enough of the hormone called insulin, or fails use said hormone effectively. Currently 6.4 million Mexicans have a medical diagnosis of DM II, that is, 9.4% of the adult population (20 years and older). However, this figure does not include those who have not been diagnosed or are at high risk of developing the disease. DM II is the second cause of death in Mexico and is among the five leading causes of years of life lived with disabilities. Objective: Evaluate the Cost Effectiveness of Diabetes treatment in Mexico. Material and Method: A systematic review was carried out on the Internet based on articles published in Crossref, PUBMED, JCR, NCBI, SCOPUS, information from government institutions; the search is performed using keywords such as; Cost-Effectiveness and Diabetes. Results: Of a total of 22 references reviewed, 5. (23%) were detected in CROSSREF, 12 (54%) in PUBMED, 5 (23%) were detected from information from government institutions. Conclusion: According to the revised literature, the expense that is made in Mexico for diabetes care is high, but most of that investment is going to treat complications and not prevention.

scholarly journals Cells in the Body Politic: Social identity and hospital construction in Peronist Argentina

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-131
Author(s):  
J Hagood
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The People ◽  
Hospital Construction ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Modern Hospital

This article examines the critical role played by social identity in the construction of hospitals in the Argentine health care sector during the 1940s and 1950s by uncovering the way in which the “jungle” of hospitals withstood attempts by the state to apply some sense of order, purpose, and centralized organization. The first section examines how physicians envisioned the “modern” hospital they hoped to construct. The second section reveals the important antecedents of nationalized hospitalization schemes found in the collaboration between physicians’ unions and the state. In the third section, an analysis of political speeches illuminates how Juan and Evita Perón packaged new hospitals as gifts to the people from their leader. The fourth section outlines specific plans to increase the number of hospital beds. The final section surveys examples of hospital construction to demonstrate how sub-national identities were instrumental to fragmenting both Argentine society and its hospital infrastructure.

Livy, Pestilentia, and the Pathologies of Class Strife

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-76
Author(s):  
Hunter H. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Source Material ◽  
The Body ◽  
Civil Strife ◽  
The People ◽  
Ab Urbe Condita ◽  
Civil Discord ◽  
Medical Writers

Accounts of pestilence in the historical record help us understand those assumptions about the effects of disease that inform both the creation of the plague narrative and its reception among Roman audiences. Chapter 2 examines Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita in order to suggest that the historical experience and representation of plague in Rome was infused with resonance of civil strife by the Augustan period. Livy refines his source material to address a body politic in need of healing and thus sharpens the correlation between contagium and civil discord (discordia), especially in early episodes recounting the struggle of the orders. The historian’s narratives of contagion draw partly from the language of medical writers, but equally from a historiographic tradition that correlated a diseased body with a diseased body politic. Accounts of plague allow Livy to reflect on distinctions among members of different orders, especially the patres/patricii (highest class of citizens) and plebs (lowest class of citizens). The remedies enacted to combat plague, in forms of both cultural and political innovations, prove alternatingly salubrious and detrimental to the body politic. Livy recognizes, however, that, as a challenge to the people equivalent to strife within and war abroad, pestilentia could have a positive impact on the development of Roman hegemony and prompt coalescence among a divided citizenry.

FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND THE POWER OFADAB

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen McLarney
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Relationships ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
Self Rule

AbstractThis article analyzes in depth four main writings by the pioneeringnahḍaintellectual Rifaʿa Rafiʿ al-Tahtawi, who drew on classical kinds ofadabto articulate new kinds of political subjectivities. He especially draws on the image of the body politic as a body with the king at its heart. But he reconfigures this image, instead placing the public, or the people, at the heart of politics, a “vanquishing sultan” that governs through public opinion. For al-Tahtawi,adabis a kind of virtuous comportment that governs self and soul and structures political relationships. In this, he does not diverge from classical conceptions ofadabas righteous behavior organizing proper social and political relationships. But in his thought, disciplinary training inadabis crucial to the citizen-subject's capacity for self-rule, as he submits to the authority of his individual conscience, ensuring not only freedom, but also justice. These ideas have had lasting impact on Islamic thought, as they have been recycled for the political struggles of new generations.

The Selection of Judges in Chicago, and the Rôle of the Local Bar Therein

1936 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward M. Martin
Keyword(s):  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Judicial Selection ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Bar Association ◽  
The University ◽  
Democratic Procedure

For many years, the organized Bar has sought to guide the process of judicial selection. Its greatest activity has been in metropolitan communities where the choice is nominally by vote of the people. Such participation by a quasi-public group in a democratic procedure raises several pertinent questions. For example, what effect will it probably have on methods of selection now in force? Is such activity likely to become an accepted feature of our political life? Is such participation to be regarded as in the public interest? Is it a specific corrective that the body politic has developed to counterbalance too much democracy in judicial selection?To shed some light on these and related questions, the writer (as a graduate student at the University of Chicago) made a study of judicial selection in Chicago from 1870 to 1933, particular attention being given to the rôle of the Chicago Bar Association in the process.

scholarly journals In the Name of the People: Disagreeing over Peoplehood in the North and South Korean Constitutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-445
Author(s):  
Justine GUICHARD
Keyword(s):  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
The South ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
North And South

AbstractAs modern constitutions speak in the name of the people, they contribute to constituting the body politic by making potentially contentious claims about its members’ identity, rights, and duties. Focusing on the North and South Korean Constitutions, this article examines the claims about peoplehood articulated in both texts since their concurrent adoption in 1948. The analysis argues that these claims are irreducible to the North and the South competing over two ideologically antagonistic conceptions of the body politic—a rivalry supposedly embodied in and magnified by their constitutions’ use of differentiated terms to designate the people: inmin and kungmin. Instead, these categories should be seen in light of their synchronic commonalities in the North and South Korean Constitutions as well as diachronic transformations throughout the successive versions of each text, revealing that constituting the people has been less a matter of conflict between both Koreas than within each.

Conjuring the Body Politic From the Corpus Mysticum: The Post-Independent Pursuit of Public Opinion in Mexico, 1821-1854

1999 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian F. Connaughton
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Office ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Relationship

Political theory, consensus and participation have often had deeply religious motivations and inspirations driving them. And however peculiar to theology the concept of corpus mysticum may seem to us today, it has often been used in association with politics. In the late Middle Ages, the notions of political office as against personalism, continuity of sovereignty in spite of the unexpected and politically perilous deaths of monarchs, unity over factionalism, the relationship between authority and the law, and that between authority and the people, were persuasively addressed through this religious metaphor.

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