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"The AfD denies human-caused climate change and wants to reverse the energy transition." In the piece, Schmelzer argues for a stable and socially just climate policy as part of democratic resilience.
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Blacks cannot become full subjects in the life of our community. Placed apart, put to the side, piece by piece: that is how Blacks came to signify, in their essence and before all speech, the injunction of [...] form. The object can be a piece of skull, the phalanx of a pinky fin ger, or a bone from the skeleton. But in a general sense the bones of the dead must be combined with pieces of wood, bark, plants, stones [...] United States, with the plantation as its core structure. As for Blacks, they were nothing more than pieces of property, at least from a strict legal perspective. The pressing question from 1670 on was how
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Instead, private lawyers have pieced together different portions of legal rules that were adopted in different eras, and their combined effect became apparent only after all the pieces had been put into place [...] regardless of its form. In their unadulter- ated appearance, these simple assets are just that: a piece of dirt, a building, a promise to receive payment at a future date, an idea for a new drug, or a string [...] not lack knowledge about alternatives to the com- plex land conveyance regime that solicitors had pieced together for wealthy families; they lacked the political will to implement them.58 The calculus in