...This introductory chapter provides an overview of voting ethics. Voting is the principal way that citizens influence the quality of government. As such, individual voters have moral obligations concerning how they vote. Indeed, how individuals vote can help or harm people. Electoral outcomes can...

... that citizens have a standing obligation to participate periodically in contestatory forums. It also rejects the notion that the quantity and diffusion of public speech acts envisaged by deliberative theory is a necessary property of a morally acceptable social order. Finally, it examines the bare moral...

...This chapter elucidates the legal status of the shared responsibility to protect. It presents a twofold argument: extraterritorial obligations for the prevention of atrocities have become more firmly established in law in recent decades than many people realize, but these legal developments...

... and their retirement funds. A cause of many pension fund losses were collateralized debt obligations, which the funds first began to snap up in the early 2000s. bankruptcies Bear Stearns Berkshire Hathaway BofA Bank of America CDOs collateralized debt obligations Fannie Mae financial crisis 2008 Great Recession...

...This chapter examines the many “legal incidents” of marriage: the specific benefits, responsibilities, obligations, and protections that are associated with marriage by law. While critics focus on the special privileges or benefits that spouses acquire in marriage, those are balanced by special...

...This chapter details the everyday practices used by the Legendz and their friends to manage a specific cultural dilemma faced by Muslim American youth: how to participate in a religious tradition that carries expectations of deference to external religious authority and obligation within a modern...

...This chapter takes up questions about the structure and scope of relational morality. If the moral nexus is construed as a domain of self-standing relational obligations, the question arises as to the manifold of individuals who are potentially linked under such obligations. Prior relationships...

... obligations to other people....

... responsibility that sheds new light on sovereign debt, historical reparations, treaty obligations, and economic sanctions. Along the way, it overturns longstanding interpretations of Hobbes' political thought, explores how new technologies will alter the practice of state responsibility as we know...

...This chapter examines what moral obligations, if any, remain or are incurred when one promises under duress. In general, duress holds that unjustified or wrongfully exerted coercion entirely exonerates the party subjected to undue pressure from responsibility for whatever actions the duress...

... on speech to develop understandings of one another and of the world. These understandings are essential for our mutual flourishing, for the apprehension and discharge of our moral obligations to one another as individuals, and to enable us to pursue our collective moral ends. The chapter draws some...

... burden while respecting the moral obligations to attach to coercive, term-shaping decision making. actual nonidealized citizens citizens cognitive demands of democracy Schumpeter Joseph Sidgwick Henry context dependence deliberative democracy microdemocratic theory nonpreferences attitudes...

...This chapter proposes a framework that makes it possible to consider future generations explicitly and presents two future-directed obligations of justice. It argues for a principle of intergenerational equality: each generation can be reasonably expected to leave a nondeclining stock of natural...

... Christian artists and craftsmen to decorate Hebrew prayer books and to create for them objects with which Jews performed their liturgical obligations. These Christian professionals were not necessarily familiar with the intricacies of the Jewish religion, and when not consulting a Jew, at times committed...

...This concluding chapter argues that the international rule of law is a structure of political authority. It creates a hierarchy in international affairs in which legal obligations are superior and governments are subordinate. The structure depends on and is reinforced by the widespread practice...

... a maturity of more than two years), and since most were drawn up in the countryside, they were of smaller value than obligations. The NLE gave farmers and others who were not in commerce access to this sort of debt for the first time, and it is no surprise that it was popular. Yet despite the wide use...

...This epilogue argues that Castile was solvent throughout Philip II's reign. A complex web of contractual obligations designed to ensure repayment governed the relationship between the king and his bankers. The same contracts allowed great flexibility for both the Crown and bankers when liquidity...

... and a more subjective sense of belonging—and therefore it also defines exclusion. Second, citizenship melds a person's rights and his or her obligations to a state, so that a state that wishes to enforce obligations faces the fact that the same set of expectations and rhetorics on which its power is based...

...This introductory chapter sets out the book's focus, namely the question of why the state should have to tolerate exemptions from generally applicable laws when they conflict with religious obligations but not with any other equally serious obligations of conscience. It illustrates this issue...

... in place, which effectively insulated the family from conscription and enabled them to reduce their corvée obligations. distance Fuqing county social networks and relations soldier serving zhengjun trade maritime transfer diao of soldiers Ye family of Fuqing Ye Xianggao bandits and banditry...