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can function without a written constitution to guide its formation and operation, and how the rights of citizens can be … defined and protected without a written constitution. This essay addresses these questions and many more concerning American … themselves under an unwritten constitution for many hundreds of years, by the Cherokee Nation who apparently created the first …
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changing reality calls for a new majority-minority theory and argue that the moral justifications for cultural minority rights … rights. Only by a contextualized and relational consideration of groups, they thus conclude, can competing demands of …
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Minorities' claims for rights increasingly clash with majorities who wish to retain and defend "national" cultural and … rights abound, the normative literature is remarkably silent on the issue of the normative legitimacy of rights claims by … will by electoral force. But in the postwar rights regime in which protection for minority rights has proliferated, there …
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In less than a decade, foreign investors have erected more than 3,200 wind turbines across the Isthmus of Techuantepec investing billions of dollars and generating more than 90 per cent of Mexico's wind energy. The isthmus is also home to more than one thousand indigenous communities whose...
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This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily use national census data from the International Public Use Micro Data Sample (IPUMS). Since censuses use inconsistent measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two...
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