In 1638 the National Covenant deliberately looked backwards, as well as forwards, by incorporating the text of the Negative Confession (1581). Its authors utilised the patchwork of sixteenth-century ...covenant ideas by drawing upon religious bonding, confessions of faith and the coronation oath. Deeply familiar actions and gestures were used alongside the words, and especially the emotional ritual of taking a vow with hands upraised. This resonated with the broader identity and culture of protestants as a godly people, who, like the Old Testament Israelites, upheld their covenantal relationship with God by the ‘purity'of their reformed worship and discipline.
Legislating the Lips Cizek, Paul
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The Temple Scroll (11QTa 53:11–54:5) and Damascus Document (CD 16:6–12) each appropriate legislation concerning vows and oaths from Deut 23:22–24 and Num 30:3–17. Lawrence H. Schiffman, who has ...offered the only at-length comparison of these appropriations, characterizes these halakhot as incongruent and links this conclusion with his position that the Temple Scroll is Sadducean and the Damascus Document comes from a later Sadducean splinter group. However, my analysis leads to a different conclusion. I demonstrate that the authors of the Temple Scroll and Damascus Document evidence distinct aims in their appropriations of shared base texts, but not necessarily incongruence nor intentional divergence.
Some sizable differences between common good constitutionalism and common good originalism certainly remain, to be sure. But three years later, those differences have diminished. From a legal theory ...perspective, if not necessarily always an outcome- or subject matter-specific perspective, there is now definitively more that unites common good constitutionalism and common good originalism than there is that divides them. Here, Hammer discusses the key facets of both common good constitutionalism and common good originalism, explains this two-pronged theoretical convergence, and explores what that convergence might entail for the vibrant, ongoing debates over the future of right-of-center American jurisprudence--while still bearing in mind the theoretical distinctions that are perhaps ineluctable.
Legal representation requires trust. How is trust given and gained in lawyer‐client relations that are tainted by mistrust? In this article I examine interactions between Ethiopian lawyers and their ...Chinese clients to show how both parties mitigate mistrust to enable productive legal representation across radical difference. This process not only involves patience and persistence but also prompts clients to put trust on trial. First, they do so by closely monitoring their lawyers or testing them through choreographed situations of trusting in which the stakes are low or the transfer of trust carefully controlled. Second, by cultivating loyalty and proximity they attempt to further enhance the predictability of the other's future actions to ensure the desired outcome of trust.
This study examines the role of written agreements in eleventh- and twelfth-century Catalonia, and how they determined the social and political order. By tracing the fate of these agreements - or ...convenientiae - from their first appearance to the late twelfth century, it is possible to demonstrate the remarkable stability of the fluid structures which they engendered in what is generally thought of as 'feudal society'. The process of documentary change reveals the true nature and pace of the 'transformation of the year 1000'. Analysis of the convenientia as an instrument of power and its interaction with oral practices contributes to a deeper understanding of the role of the written word in medieval societies. Finally, a broad historiographical context establishes the significance of this study of Catalonia for a more general appreciation of the medieval Mediterranean world.
Occasionally something might seem plain and evident and yet still be somewhat unknown and mysterious. "Faithfully execute," found in two constitutional provisions - the Take Care and the Presidential ...Oaths Clauses - has a comforting tone and familiarity. But what does the phrase mean, concretely, in these faithful execution clauses? The Faithful Trio - Professors Andrew Kent, Ethan Leib, and Jed Shugerman - have done yeoman's work in fleshing out the background of "faithfully execute." After examining centuries' worth of usage, a truly herculean task, they conclude the phrase has three components: (1) a duty not to misuse or misappropriate funds or property; (2) a responsibility not to act ultra vires; and (3) an obligation to be diligent, careful, honest, and impartial.
The oath was an institution of fundamental importance across a wide range of social interactions throughout the ancient Greek world, making a crucial contribution to social stability and harmony; yet ...there has been no comprehensive, dedicated scholarly study of the subject for over a century. This volume of a two-volume study explores the nature of oaths as Greeks perceived it, the ways in which they were used (and sometimes abused) in Greek life and literature, and their inherent binding power.
•People often face incentives to misrepresent their personal, perhaps qualifying, characteristics, such as in job or college applications.•An experiment performed on MTurk asks people to self-report ...their eye color, both under oath and without oaths.•Honesty oaths can significantly reduce misrepresenting oneself, primarily on extreme misrepresentation (big lies) but not on small, plausible ones.•Beliefs about othersreporting behavior affects one decision to deceive. If one expects most others to lie, they lie too.
Lying about race or personal characteristics for a job or in college admissions is common and has recently become a high profile issue. In this paper, we explore the decision to misrepresent oneself and determine how honesty oaths impact personal characteristic reporting. To do this, we execute an experiment on Amazon MTurk, using a self-reporting task involving human eye color. We find that honesty oaths elicit more truthful behavior – primarily reducing implausible lies (maximal outcome lies). As a result, we spent 27.6% less on bonuses than we would have without oath-taking. There is some evidence that if one believes lying is common, they are more likely to lie as well. We conclude that oaths decrease extreme misrepresentation and expectations of group behavior significantly impact the decision to deceive.
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