This thesis examines the views of freedoms of press and speech held by the twelve earliest justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, as the Sedition Act of 1798 raised their earliest First Amendment questions including the breadth of those freedoms and of seditious libel. The thesis discusses three aspects of the early justices' views, which add to existing studies. First, the context of those justices' views was growing challenges to the restrictive Blackstone and Mansfield definition of freedom of press as only freedom from prior restraint (licensing) and as not also freedom from subsequent restraint such as seditious libel prosecution. Those challenges were reflected in broad language protecting freedoms of press and speech, and in the absence of language stating that the English common law of rights or of seditious libel was left unaltered. That crucial context of growing challenges has not been detailed in existing literature. (Chapter 3.) Second, the views of each early justice on press and speech are chronicled for the period 1789-1798. That discloses express commitments to those freedoms, which are absent from existing literature, and no adoption of the Blackstone definition before the 1798 crisis. (Chapters 4-5.) Third, the cases and reasoning of the six sitting justices upholding the Sedition Act of 1798 are chronicled and assessed, along with the views of the six remaining justices. That reveals that most remaining justices and also a significant minority within the Federalist party rejected the Sedition Act. Yet positions on the Sedition Act have been only cursorily discussed for four sitting justices and have been overlooked for the other eight justices, as well as for the Federalist party's minority, for the critical period 1798-1800. (Chapters 6-7.) The thesis proposes reasons for that divergence between the pre-1798 commitment of all justices to freedoms of press and speech, and the support given by most sitting justices to the Sedition Act, in contrast to apparent opposition by most remaining justices. The primary reasons are their opposing positions on several connected issues: the extent of rights to dissent, the challenges to the Blackstone definition and to seditious libel, the effect of new state and federal constitutions on seditious libel and on common law rights, strength of attachment to freedoms of press and speech and to seditious libel, and most sitting justices' changes of position to embrace the Blackstone definition. The thesis calls into question conventional views in existing literature on each of those three aspects. First, Levy and others express the dominant view that freedom of press in state declarations of rights and the First Amendment 'was used in its prevailing common law or Blackstonian sense to mean a guarantee against previous restraints and a subjection to subsequent restraints for licentious or seditious abuse,' so that contrary evidence 'does not exist,' and that 'no other definition of freedom of the press by anyone anywhere in America before 1798' existed. Instead, opposition to the essence of seditious libel had been mounting over the decades. Second, the early justices are usually portrayed as having nothing to say about freedoms of press and speech before 1798. Instead, nearly all exhibited commitment to those freedoms before that crucial year, though half the early justices upheld the Sedition Act during 1798-1800. Third, the Federalist party, the early justices, and the states except Virginia and Kentucky are all usually described as unanimously supporting the Sedition Act. Instead, the Federalists divided over the Act, and the early justices did as well, with an unrecognized but significant minority of the party, and nearly half of the early justices, opposing the Sedition Act, as did several additional states.

The aim of this thesis is to put an interpretation on the institution of discharge with regard to an approval of the Act No. 294/2013 Coll., which changes the Act No. 182/2006 Coll., on decline and its solution strategies (Insolvency Act) and the Act No. 312/2006 Coll., on insolvency administrators (hereinafter referred to as "revising amendment"), to compare the amendment before and after its taking effect, with a main focus on discharge for entrepreneurs and individuals whose debts come from entrepreneurship, and on discharge for spouses. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter sums up the development of insolvency proceedings and insolvency law from Roman times to the present day. Thanks to this overview, the reader can see that insolvency proceedings and insolvency law are not only contemporary issues and owing to this, we are also able to map the development which led to the Insolvency Act as it stands. The main topic of the second chapter is decline and its solution strategies. As to the decline, I describe its two basic alternatives, insolvency and over-indebtedness. I mention also the imminent decline, which is followed by division of decline solution strategies into rehabilitation and liquidation, offering a brief specification of each of them. The whole third chapter...

The aim of my diploma thesis is to analyze legislation of the insolvency procedure's impact on the joint assets and how this legislation was changed by the amendment to the Insolvency Act No. 294/2013. This amendment is effective from January 1, 2014 and it brings to the Insolvency Act, inter alia, establishment of a common procedure for a debt relief in a marriage, which was previously only inferred from the case law. Also, there occures a certain refilling and refinement of some provisions of the Insolvency Act in accordance with the case law. This diploma thesis consists of four main chapters. The first chapter deals with the insolvency procedure generally, it presents the necessary conditions for the event, and explains the basic concepts with which it is linked. The second chapter is devoted to general explanations of the joint assets. It defines its content, form in which the joint assets may be located, when and how it arises, and also describes how the joint assets is settled. The third chapter deals with the underlying assets. It is a summary of property that arises for the purposes of insolvency proceedings and from which are the creditors satisfied. This chapter defines the property, which is included in the underlying assets, and also the way to exclude the property from it. There is...

The theme of this thesis is the construction of buildings and their alterations. The aim is to describe and analyze legislation permitting constructin of buildings and their alterations, and draw attention to the news, which brought major amendment to the Building Act effective from 1. 1. 2013. The thesis consists of eight chapters, an introduction and a conclusion. At the beginning there is a brief historical development of legislation of construction of buildings and their alterations in the Czech Republic. The second chapter is divided into four parts and is focused on sources of public construction law. In the third chapter defines the basic concepts of building law, which is relevant in the context of the construction of buildings and their alterations. The fourth chapter describes the problems of public administration. The fifth chapter describes possibility of construction of buildings and their alterations. In the sixth chapter discussed the various modes of construction of buildings. The chapter is divided into four parts according to each mode. There is a detailed analysis of the free mode, the reporting mode and authorization regime. The following are alternatives to building permits - notice of building projects certified by an authorized inspector and public contract. Seven last...

Potentially toxic elements (PTEs) can be absorbed and accumulated in vegetables organ and tissues, and this is an important channel through which PTEs can enter into the food chain. Soil management may interfere in the behavior of PTEs in the system. So, the study of the dynamics of elements in the soil is fundamental to a better understanding of factors that influence soil-plant transfer. In the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, the production of vegetables is mainly concentrated in small or medium organic and conventional farms located in the Agreste and Sao Francisco regions. Our aims in this research were: i) to determine the contents of PTEs in soil and in vegetables produced under conventional and organic systems in garden soils of Pernambuco; ii) to investigate the forms of the PTEs and their uptake by the vegetables based on different soil-plant transfer factors; iii) to use the calculated transfer factors to assess the human risk exposure; iv) to assess the effect of aging and organic matter (OM) on copper (Cu) desorption in garden soils; v) to determine if manure application to soils increases water soluble Cu concentrations; and vi) to verify the efficiency of machine learning techniques in the classification of vegetables produced under organic and conventional systems. Acid and complexing solutions were employed to extract total contents of PTEs in plants and to extract pseudototal, reactive and bioavailable fractions of the PTEs in soils. Soil-plant transfer factors and human risk assessment were calculated based on the determined levels of PTEs. Kinetic assays were developed using rates of organic composts added to Cu-spiked soils to model the Cu desorption. Water extractable Cu and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) were extracted from soils amended with dairy manure, and the Cu-DOC interactions were studied using spectroscopic techniques. Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) leaves had the highest capacity to accumulate PTEs; conventional system promoted higher PTEs values in soils and plants than the organic production; regardless of the scenario, children and adults in contact to vegetables cropped in organic system have a lower health risk than individuals exposed to lettuce leaves conventionally produced. The addition of OM promoted greater Cu desorption, while aging lead to a reduction in the Cu release. The Fouriertransform infrared spectroscopy spectra showed increase in the presence of aliphatic and carboxylic groups in the extracts from the manure-amended soils. Carboxylic acid functional groups on the DOC formed strong bonds with Cu, which can promote Cu transport as dissolved Cu-organic complexes in the soil profile. The Support Vector Machine had an accuracy over 90% to classify the vegetables in the two groups (organic and conventional); and this high assertiveness rate highlights the potential of using elemental quantification and algorithms as support techniques in the process of authenticity and inspection of organic products. / Elementos potencialmente toxicos (EPTs) podem estar biodisponiveis para serem absorvidos e acumulados nos tecidos e orgaos vegetais, sendo esta uma importante rota de entrada de EPTs na cadeia alimentar. O manejo do solo pode interferir no comportamento dos EPTs no sistema. Desta forma, o estudo da dinamica desses elementos no solo e fundamental para melhor entendimento dos fatores que influenciam a transferencia solo-planta. No estado de Pernambuco, a producao de hortalicas se concentra em intensos cultivos organicos e convencionais localizados em pequenas ou medias propriedades, principalmente na regiao Agreste e Sao Francisco. Nossos objetivos neste trabalho foram: i) determinar os teores de EPTs no solo e nas hortalicas produzidas em sistemas convencionais e organicos em hortas de Pernambuco; ii) investigar as formas de EPTs e sua absorcao pelas hortalicas com base em diferentes fatores de transferencia solo-planta; iii) usar os fatores de transferencia calculados para investigar o risco de exposicao aos humanos; iv) estudar o efeito do tempo e da materia organica (MO) na dessorcao de cobre (Cu) em solos de horta; v) determinar se a aplicacao de esterco aumenta a concentracao de Cu soluvel em agua; e vi) verificar a eficiencia de tecnicas machine learning na classificacao de hortalicas produzidas em sistemas organicos e convencionais. Solucoes acidas e complexantes foram utilizadas para extrair os teores totais de EPTs nas plantas e os teores pseudototal, reativo e biodisponivel dos EPTs no solo. Fatores de transferencia solo-planta e avaliacao de risco humano foram calculados com base nos teores de EPTs. Estudos de cinetica foram desenvolvidos apos adicao de composto organico em solos contaminados com Cu para modelar a dessorcao de Cu. Cu soluvel em agua e carbono organico dissolvido (COD) foram extraidos de solos adubados com esterco, a interacao Cu-COD foi estudada usando tecnicas espectroscopicas. Folhas de alface (Lactuca sativa) apresentaram a maior capacidade de acumular EPTS; o sistema convencional promoveu maiores tores de EPTs nos solos e plantas do que o sistema organico; independentemente do cenario, criancas e adultos em contato com vegetais produzidos em sistema organico tem um menor risco do que os individuos que consomem folhas de alface convencionalmente produzidas. A adicao de MO promoveu maior dessorcao de Cu, enquanto o aumento no tempo de contato reduziu a liberacao de Cu. Os graficos da espectroscopia de infravermelho com transformada de Fourier mostraram um aumento na presenca de grupos funcionais alifaticos e carboxilicos nos extratos de solos adubados com esterco. Esses grupos funcionais no COD formam ligacoes fortes com Cu, o que promove o transporte do elemento na forma de complexos organicos dissolvidos no perfil do solo. O modelo Support Vector Machine apresentou acuracia superior a 90% na classificacao das hortalicas em dois grupos (organicas e convencionais); e a alta taxa de assertividade mostra o potencial do uso de quantificacao elementar e algoritmos como tecnicas auxiliares no processo de autenticidade de inspecao de produtos organicos.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:33:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elias da Silva Sposito.pdf: 3798932 bytes, checksum: 6d6859d90bb3420db489552d48a2e2aa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-20 / This job has the purpose of investigate cases of repetition and amendment in texts from the social network Facebook, using as theoretical base studies of these texts with an outlook in socio cognition and interaction. For the purpose sought, it was selected a corpus of messages from Facebook, written by Digital Natives users and not Digital Natives users. The results show that in both groups the users resort to the repetition and to the amendment, in many forms and functions, to externalize their everyday life to their friends in the social network. Moreover, the use of repetitions and amendments is highlighted as a strategy to contribute to the interaction between Facebook users / Este trabalho objetiva investigar casos de repetição e correção em textos na rede social Facebook, tendo como base teórica estudos do texto na perspectiva sociocognitiva e interacional. Para a análise pretendida, foi selecionado um corpus composto por mensagens no Facebook produzidas por usuários nativos e não nativos digitais. Os resultados indicam que, em ambos os grupos, os sujeitos recorrem à repetição e à correção, em variadas formas e funções, na manifestação de seu cotidiano aos amigos da rede. Além disso, destaca-se o papel das repetições e das correções como estratégias que contribuem para a interação entre sujeitos usuários do Facebook

A ressocialização dos condenados é uma das finalidades mais importantes da pena. Todavia, o oferecimento de condições para que o preso seja reintegrado adequadamente à sociedade depende de diversos fatores externos. Como instrumento para a concretização do resgate social de reeducandos, a Lei de Execução Penal cria os Conselhos da Comunidade, cuja função fiscalizatória e de assistência ao detento e seus familiares garante a aplicação humanitária da pena. Contudo, a atuação do órgão enfrenta dificuldades causadas por lacunas legislativas capazes de limitar suas ações e reduzir sua eficácia. A aprovação de emendas à norma ampliou o alcance do serviço assistencial prestado, otimizando o processo de ressocialização dentro das unidades prisionais. Projeto de lei sugere alterações aos artigos 80 e 81 da Lei de Execução Penal promovendo a ampliação das ações do Conselho e concedendo a autonomia necessária para sua manutenção orçamentária. / The resocialization of the condemned is one of the most important purposes of the penalty. However, providing conditions for the detainee to be properly reintegrated into society depends on a number of external factors. As an instrument for the realization of the social redemption of reeducators, the Criminal Enforcement Law establishes the Councils of the Community, whose supervisory function and assistance to the detainee and their families, guarantees the humanitarian application of the penalty. However, the agency's actions face difficulties caused by legislative gaps that may limit its actions and reduce its effectiveness. The approval of amendments to the standard would broaden the scope of the service provided, optimizing the process of resocialization within the prison units. The bill suggests amendments to Articles 80 and 81 of the Criminal Enforcement Act, promoting the expansion of the Council's actions and granting the autonomy necessary for its budgetary maintenance.

A Constituição é produto do Poder Constituinte. Após a elaboração e edição da Constituição, o Poder Constituinte continua a existir em estado de latência. Contudo, a Constituição, como norma jurídica que é, necessita ser adaptada à realidade social cambiante, caso contrário não será apta a reger a vida da sociedade e do Estado e terá de ser substituída pela ação revolucionária do Poder Constituinte. Assim, o Poder Constituinte incumbe um órgão ou um complexo de órgãos da reforma da Constituição, o qual, contudo, com ele não se confunde. Como o Poder de Reforma Constitucional é um poder instituído, sujeita-se às regras impostas pelo Poder Constituinte, que o cria, e, entre estas regras, encontram-se as limitações à reforma da Constituição. Certa doutrina rejeita as limitações à reforma da Constituição, pela impossibilidade de uma geração vincular as gerações futuras; outra parte defende a superação das limitações por um processo de dupla revisão; finalmente, uma terceira corrente defende as limitações alicerçando-as em três argumentos principais: o precompromentimento constitucional, o dualismo democrático e a defesa da democracia e dos direitos humanos. A Constituição Federal de 1988 prevê quatro espécies de limitações à reforma da Constituição: material, formal, circunstancial e temporal. Os maiores questionamentos, contudo, apresentam-se em relação às limitações materiais, que formam o núcleo intangível da Constituição. Para a garantia de existência de limitações, a reforma da Constituição sujeita-se ao controle de constitucionalidade por parte do Supremo Tribunal Federal. / The Constitution is a product of Constituent Power. After elaborating the Constitution, the Constituent power remains asleep. Nevertheless, the Constitution, as a law, necessits to be adjusted to the social reality or will not be able to rule the live of the State and the society and will be replaced by the Constituent Power revoluctionary action. Therefore, the Constituent Power imputes to an Assembly the function of amending the Constitution; however, both of them are not the same phenomenon. The power of amending the Constitution is created by the Constituent Power and consequently is submited to the limitations established. Some authors refuse the limitations of amending process, because the generation can not bind the future generations; others support the possibility to overcome the limitations by a double amending process; finaly, there is a tendency to defend the limitations presenting three mainly arguments: constitutional precommitment, dualist democracy and the defense of the democracy and the human rights. The Brazilian Constitution ordains four sorts of limitations: substantial, formal, circunstantial and temporal. The deepest disagreement refer to the substantial limitations that obstruct the reform of the Constitution nucleus. To guarantee the existence of the limitations, the amending process submits to the control by the Supreme Court.

O presente trabalho pretende estudar a rev1sao constitucional periódica estabelecida na Constitu ição da República Portuguesa de 1976 como ferramenta de aprimoramento institucional, vislumbrando a sua adequação ao ordenamento constitucional brasileiro. Inicialmente, resgatam-se os conceitos ligados ao poder reformador para depois estabelecer a trad ição histórica da reforma constitucional em Portugal, traçando um paralelo comparativo com o procedimento de alteração constitucional adotado no Brasil. Para tanto, foi necessária a análise do instituto da revisão constitucional portuguesa , explicitando, em especial, a periodicidade revisional, para verificar, através da experiência lus itana, a eficácia do instituto em questão. Por fim, apresenta-se a revisão constitucional periódica como instrumento apto para gerar estabilidade constitucional aliado a sua capacidade de oportunizar periodicamente o aprimoramento das institu ições do Estado. / This study aims to investigate the periodic constitutional review established as an institutional improvement tool in the Portuguese Constitution of 1976, setting a sight on its adequacy concerning the Brazilian constitutional order. This research recovers the concepts related to the reforming power in order to establish the historical tradition of the constitutional reform in Portugal, drawing a comparison with the constitutional amendment procedure adopted in Brazil. Therefore, the analysis of the Portugues.e lnstitute of constitutional review was necessary to particularly explain the reviewing periodicity in order to verify the effectiveness of the institute through the Portuguese experience. Finally, this study presents the periodic constitutional review as an effective means to generate constitutional stability together with its facility to periodically provide the opportunity for improvement of the national institutions.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:22:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gabriel Lopes Coutinho Filho.pdf: 11931211 bytes, checksum: 35f4108d1416dbbe44ec2b062a23e15c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-02-11 / The objective of this paper is to examine the phenomenon of accumulation of function to those originally contracted employee, according to current Brazilian legal system . The intensity of work in the contemporary world is a subject of great tension between employers and workers. The phenomenon examined , which has several facets , has great interest because it is a content change of object clause of the employment contract . The contemporary production methods require that workers have polyvalent skills. In Brazil, the sole paragraph of art.456 of the Labor Code (CLT) allows the employer to use your "jus variandi" changing the object clause of the employment contract. The central issue is that the Brazilian labor law allows employers freely change the object of the employment contract without any limitation not exceeding the personal conditions of the employees and provided that an express contract, or some proof of contracted function does not 'exist. The law, however, provides an unfavorable presumption the employee:: i'1 practice, it is common the absence of express employment contract and the employee is hardly proof of the contractual object, limiting its "resistentia jus". The assumption behind this work is the perception of injury to the worker due to the law, which contradicts many principles of labor law. Five constitutional violations are identified in law and is made a proposal for legislative change to examination. The completion of background work is that no legally able to prevent the phenomenon of "accurl1ulation of function", except through collective bargaining agreements. However, it is necessary to have legal mechanisms that protect the worker, giving him a proper wage compensation in the face of natural increased complexity of the work it performs / O objetivo deste trabalho é examinar o fenômeno dê acúmulo de função do empregado àquelas originalmente contratadas, segundo o sistema legal brasileiro atual. A intensidade do trabalho no mundo contemporâneo é tema de grande tensão entre empregadores e trabalhadores. O fenômeno examinado, que possui várias facetas, possui grande interesse, pois representa uma alteração da cláusula de objeto do contrato de trabalho. Os métodos produtivos contemporâneos determinam que os trabalhadores possuam habilidades polivalentes. No Brasil, o parágrafo único do art.456, da CLT (CLT), permite que o empregador utilize seu "jus variandi" para alterar a cláusula de objeto do contrato de trabalho. A questão central é que a lei trabalhista brasileira possibilita que o empregador altere livremente o objeto do contrato de trabalho sem qualquer limitação que não ultrapassem as condições pessoais do empregadose e desde que não exista um contrato expresso, ou alguma prova da função contratada. A lei, portanto, traz uma presunção desfavorável ao : empregado: na prática, é comum a ausência de contrato de trabalho expresso e . dificilmente o trabalhador faz prova do objeto contratado, limitando seu "jus resistentia". O pressuposto deste trabalho é a percepção de prejuízo ao trabalhador em decorrência da lei, fato que contraria muitos princípios do direito do trabalho. São identificadas cinco infrações constitucionais na lei e é feita uma proposta de alteração legislativa para exame. A conclusão de fundo do trabalho é que não há condições de impedir legalmente o fenômeno do "acúmulo de função", exceto por meio de contratos coletivos de trabalho. Todavia, é necessário haver mecanismos legais que protejam o trabalhador, concedendo-lhe uma compensação salarial adequada em face da natural maior complexidade do trabalho que executa