Introduction
It can be a matter of dispute whether legal positivism owes its birth to Hobbes, Bentham or Austin but most of the legal experts agree that the version of legal positivism given by H.L.A. Hart is the most appropriate one for the modern constitutional system. Hart replaced the images of power and violence in jurisprudential imagination by conceiving law as a system of rules upon rules of soci » Read more: Hart’s Concept of Law and the Indian Constitution
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During Obama’s campaign while he was competing with Hillary Clinton there were those Republicans who, in each state campaign, calculated which candidate would be slightly ahead, and then voted for the other in an attempt to keep the opponents as closely balanced as possible. Their goal was, of course, to ‘bleed dry’ the Democrats.
This is of course an old strategy, and examples of it ec » Read more: Competing to Win or Taking an Opportunity?
People are generally resigned to having their vital information officially recorded by the government. A great deal of resources is channeled into gathering and managing these records. In the Information Age, it is seen as a required mark of sound democratic governance. This information resource is also not solely reserved for government use only. The public has the right of access to many of the government records too. One exa » Read more: Accessing Government Marriage Records Online
