How should american students understand their civic culture? : the continuing battle over the 2002 Massachusetts history and social science curriculum framework.

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Why UK public lawyers need to be legal and political theorists

My aim in this article is to encourage UK public lawyers to engage with contemporary debates in legal, political and constitutional theory. My argument is motivated by three related concerns. First, there is an extricable link between these disciplines: behind every proposition of public law can be found a theory of law, govenment, the state and so on; secondly, public lawyers have historically neglected or fudged theory in their work; finally, a growing number of public lawyers are now using cutting-edge legal and political theories to fashion radical new understandings of the British constitution: other (more conservative-minded) public lawyers have no option, I argue, but to answer these new challenges. I illustrate my argument with reference to debates about Parliamentary sovereignty, the constitutional foundations of judicial review, political constitutionalism, and judicial deference.

Maine and the Hartford Convention: The Impact of the War of 1812 on the Politics of Maine and Massachusetts

The question of why the New England Federalists failed to force a confrontation with the national government has been a continuing historical controversy. I feel that the vigorous stance of the New England Democratic-Republicans particularly in Maine (then a part of Massachusetts), to radical Federalist schemes acted to restrain their opponents. In the final analysis my argument is that New England could not act without Maine. To paraphrase Federalist George Herbert of Ellsworth, on such a slender thread do the destinies of nations hang.

The Great Woods, Bristol County, Massachusetts: A Design with Nature

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Experimental infection of inbred BALB/c and A/J mice with Massachusetts and Brazilian strains of infectious bronchitis virus (IBV)

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L’istruzione bilingue inglese - spagnolo nel Massachusetts

L’obiettivo di questo elaborato è fornire una panoramica sul tema vasto e complesso dell’istruzione bilingue, con particolari riferimenti alla combinazione linguistica inglese/spagnolo nello stato del Massachusetts. La mia analisi è ristretta alle politiche adottate a riguardo dal Massachusetts, perché nonostante il bilinguismo sia una realtà molto diffusa negli Stati Uniti d’America, ogni stato fa storia a sé e la gestisce in maniera differente. In questo elaborato, dopo un breve excursus storico sugli eventi principali che hanno spianato la strada all’istruzione bilingue, ho passato in rassegna varie tipologie di programmi che sono stati messe a punto nelle scuole del Bay State, concentrandomi infine sul ruolo che i genitori hanno nell’istruzione dei propri figli. Un ultimo paragrafo finale è dedicato alla possibile applicazione di queste direttive in territorio italiano.