America
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اميركا · American waters · Virginia · one of the provinces in America
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Ancient Law
The American colonies, especially Virginia, where the equality doctrine gained influence through Jefferson and others.
It is probable, however, that the power which it ultimately acquired over the events of 1789 was not entirely owing to its popularity in France, for in the middle of the century it passed over to America.
From the accession of Elizabeth to the accession of Charles the Second, it cannot be said that there was at any time thorough peace in the American waters, and the encroachments of the New England Colonists on the territory of the French King continued for almost a century longer.
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
America, named as a home of the totemism imported into the argument and again as the modern standard of women's standing in the author's reductio.
Professor Robertson Smith, the author of the totemism of the Arabs, came upon McLennan's view of the totemism of the Indians of Australia and America and the like, and saw that certain tribes of the Arabs have the names of animals, and found the genealogists differing over the origins of certain tribes;
It appears that those who assert mother-right among the Arabs were alerted to it by what they read in the books of the travellers concerning the existence of communal marriage among certain savage tribes among the Indians of America and Australia and in Tibet and the like, and that the Arabs of the Jāhilīyah had a kind of this marriage;
Among the things it is not well to pass over is that the Arabs cannot soundly be measured, in their circumstances and their genealogies, against the people of the totem among the savage nations — the Indians of Australia and America and the Negroes of Africa — because the Arabs are among the nations most advanced in mind and in soul, and are a people of an ancient civilisation like the civilisatio …
Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero
Contemporary nation mentioned by the editor as facing similar threats to civic and national life as those that destroyed the Roman Republic.
The evils which were undermining the Republic bear so many striking resemblances to those which threaten the civic and national life of America to-day that the interest of the period is by no means merely historical.
Institutes of Roman Law
Country cited as an example of a union of states with separate jurisdictions.
or (2) in more or less intimate unions of cantons, or states, such as we see in Switzerland, Germany, America;
Economics of Socialism
America, cited as one of the regions where the destructive effects of capitalism were predicted by the Socialist school.
especially in reference to the growth of monopolies, the ruin wrought by our capitalist system in India, America and the Colonies, and the periods of recurrence of international commercial crises.
A Protest Against Law-Taxes
The location of the province where the anecdotal judge served.
I happened once to fall into conversation with a man, who, from an Attorney had been made Judge of one of the provinces in America.
History of Modern Philosophy from Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time
America is listed as a region covered in the chapter on philosophy outside Germany.
Great Britain and America 4.