The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.

But after the Virginia Tech Massacre, there was significant political consensus to strengthen the protections for society and allow more leniency in determining that an individual needed to be committed against their will.

Political economy examines the role of political institutions in determining policy outcomes.

The type of electoral system is a major factor in determining the type of party political system.

Aristotle also identifies three different types or genres of civic rhetoric: forensic ( also known as judicial, was concerned with determining truth or falsity of events that took place in the past, issues of guilt ), deliberative ( also known as political, was concerned with determining whether or not particular actions should or should not be taken in the future ), and epideictic ( also known as ceremonial, was concerned with praise and blame, values, right and wrong, demonstrating beauty and skill in the present ).

However, the Syrian government accepted UNSCR 1483 ( after being absent for the actual vote ), which lifted sanctions on Iraq and established a framework to assist the Iraqi people in determining their political future and rebuilding their economy.

In Article 5 states: Immediate steps shall be taken in Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories, or all other territories which have not yet attained independence, to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or reservations, in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire, without any distinction as to race, creed or colour, in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom, moreover on 15 December 1960 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 ( XV ) under titled Principles which should guide members in determining whether or nor an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73e of the United Nations Charter in Article 3 provided that nadequacy of political, economic, social or educational preparedness should never serve as a pretext for delaying independence.

" Journalist Ronald Bailey called the criticism " disturbing " and " dishonest ", writing, " The subhead of the review section, ' Science defends itself against The Skeptical Environmentalist, gives the show away: Religious and political views need to defend themselves against criticism, but science is supposed to be a process for determining the facts.

More generally, tradition has been used as a way of determining the political spectrum, with right-wing parties having a stronger affinity to the ways of the past than left-wing ones.

With the demise of the Congressional nominating caucus in the election of 1824, the political system was left without an institutional method on the national level for determining Presidential nominations.

Finding the appropriate size of political states or other decision-making units, determining their optimal relationship to social capital and to infrastructural capital, is a major focus of political science.

The simplest goals of Marxist literary criticism can include an assessment of the political ' tendency ' of a literary work, determining whether its social content or its literary form are ' progressive '.

Hu attempted to reform China's political system by: requiring candidates to be directly elected in order to enter the Politburo ; holding more elections with more than one candidate ; increasing government transparency ; increasing public consultation before determining Party policy ; and, increasing the degree that government officials could be held directly responsible for their mistakes.

During his Presidency, Narayanan dissolved the Lok Sabha twice after determining through consultations across the political spectrum, that no one was in a position to secure the confidence of the house.

On the political side, a comprehensive disposition process has been ongoing since 2003, charged with determining the future governance of Devens.

Consensus democracy also features increased citizen participation both in determining the political agenda and in the decision-making process itself.

The degree of trust in a political or economic authority ( such as a bank or central bank ) is often critical in determining the success of a market.

He gradually understood the importance historical events had upon determining personal ideology, but he would not allow it to constrain his political options, and he did not want them to limit the options of those with whom he was negotiating.

In moral and political philosophy, autonomy is often used as the basis for determining moral responsibility for one's actions.

Although the Imperial Examination System is no longer used as a means of determining one's place in the social hierarchy, education and the teachings of the Great Learning remain an integral part of modern educational and political culture in China.

Shakespeare is an author of political theatre according to some academic scholars, who observe that his history plays examine the machinations of personal drives and passions determining political activity and that many of the tragedies such as King Lear and Macbeth dramatize political leadership and complexity subterfuges of human beings driven by the lust for power ; for example, they observe that class struggle in the Roman Republic is central to Coriolanus.

The latter's deposition without a formal ecclesiastical trial meant that Photios's election was uncanonical, and eventually Pope Nicholas I sought to involve himself in determining the legitimacy of the succession.

When later challenges to the legitimacy of the papers submitted by the Bogdanov brothers arose, the debate spread to the question of whether the substitution of a " publication requirement " by university professors when they do not understand students ' work is a valid means of determining the veracity of a paper.

The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.

A still more sophisticated system has been devised for determining the effective power of the heart itself.

One of his more famous works, the Summa which is important because of is its system for determining if a war is just.

Some believe that Georg Cantor's set theory was not actually implicated by these paradoxes ( see Frápolli 1991 ); one difficulty in determining this with certainty is that Cantor did not provide an axiomatization of his system.

The clock signal determining the cycle time of the system primarily clocks this register.

Numerical methods implemented on electronic computing machines have simplified the task of determining the orbits of a dynamical system.

In the construction and maintenance of the system there are two other roles: the problem domain expert who builds the system and supplies the knowledge base, and a knowledge engineer who assists the experts in determining the representation of their knowledge, enters this knowledge into an explanation module and who defines the inference technique required to solve the problem.

In thermodynamics, one can calculate enthalpy by determining the requirements for creating a system from " nothingness "; the mechanical work required, pV, differs based upon the constancy of conditions present at the creation of the thermodynamic system.

The Gregorian calendar reforms made slight changes to the system for determining which years were leap years and thus contained a 29-day February.

Moreover, all players must rely on the honor system when determining the outcome of events through dice rolls, as the die is only visible to the player who most benefits from lying about it.

That same year, Kent and colleagues published a paper in American Documentation describing the precision and recall measures as well as detailing a proposed " framework " for evaluating an IR system which included statistical sampling methods for determining the number of relevant documents not retrieved.

The design and alignment of the mirrors with respect to the medium is crucial to determining the exact operating wavelength and other attributes of the laser system.

The first step of determining that morphine may affect the immune system was to establish that the opiate receptors known to be expressed on cells of the central nervous system are also expressed on cells of the immune system.

The rate at which an attacker can submit guessed passwords to the system is a key factor in determining system security.

The presence of nonreproductive helpers appears to be the most important factor in determining which mating system is used, as ecological and environmental variability have not been found to have a significant impact.

Reform of the date of Easter has been proposed several times because the current system for determining the date of Easter is seen as presenting two significant problems:

The system used is Chaosium's Basic Role-Playing, with eight basic characteristics: Strength, Constitution, Mass ( equivalent to Size in other BRP games ), Intelligence, Power, Dexterity, Appearance and Education determining secondary attributes such damage modifiers, hit points, and skill rolls.

A practical method of determining whether an enantiomer is R or S is by using the right-hand rule: one wraps the molecule with the fingers in the direction 1 → 2 → 3.

For determining whether someone is intoxicated by alcohol by some means other than a blood-alcohol test, it is necessary to rule out other conditions such as hypoglycemia, stroke, usage of other intoxicants, mental health issues, and so on.

The famous Hückel 4n + 2 rule for determining whether ring molecules composed of C = C bonds would show aromatic properties was first stated clearly by Doering in a 1951 article on tropolone.

Young devised a rule of thumb for determining a child ’ s drug dosage.

However, as a compromise to those who were against the revision, the new rule also changed the requirement for determining the number of votes needed for a cloture motion's passage from those Senators " present and voting " to those Senators " duly chosen and sworn ".

There was, however, during the Middle Ages no definite rule regulating the number of crosses, nor was there any precept determining their colour.

He also acted from 1888 as chairman of the Northamptonshire county council, and continued to work with Gladstone and other liberal leaders in determining the shape of a home rule bill in the next liberal government.

Usually only rules that are recursive are important ; i. e. rules such that there is an effective procedure for determining whether any given formula is the conclusion of a given set of formulae according to the rule.

Justice Harlan offered the following rule for determining whether such statutes are unconstitutional: Justice Harlan asserted that the burden of proof should rest with the party seeking to have such a statute deemed unconstitutional.

Rather than being responsible for a specific area of policy, as most other committees are, it is in charge of determining under what rule other bills will come to the floor.

The simplest and oldest rule for determining a non-informative prior is the principle of indifference, which assigns equal probabilities to all possibilities.

There is no clear rule determining the precedence of Basic Rules over regular legislation, and in many cases this issue is left to the interpretation of the judicial system.

Without the infield fly rule it would be an easy double play because both runners will stay near their bases while determining if the ball will be caught.

* Induction means determining the rule.

A more regimented team may give the captain ultimate responsibility for making all decisions regarding rest schedules, rule interpretations and the like, while the navigator has full responsibility for not only tracking the team ’ s location, but determining route choice as well.

The rule for determining which yers are limp and which are strong is known as Havlík's law.

In the long term, key theoretical issues yet to be resolved include the calculation of the possible universality classes of SOC behaviour and the question of whether it is possible to derive a general rule for determining if an arbitrary algorithm displays SOC.

To maintaining political stability, the Noble Lie naturally classifies people, determining their places in life and society, per the proportions of gold, silver, and iron, that each man and woman contained when formed in the earth ; those meant to rule contained gold, whilst those meant to serve ( soldiers, farmers, craftsmen et al.

only superselection rule determining the configuration is the total electric charge.

Hermann Weyl and Richard Brauer discovered a systematic method for determining the branching rule when the groups G and H share a common maximal torus: in this case the Weyl group of H is a subgroup of that of G, so that the rule can be deduced from the Weyl character formula.

A tie game does not count as a game in the standings-a 2008 rule change made all tie games suspended unless and until not needed for the sake of determining playoff teams, and no longer replayed ; however, though undecided, and not factored in the championship standings and the playoff reckoning, a tie game goes on the record and player and team statistics from are counted.

It remains in force, notably for determining the source country of a work and hence the term of protection which is applicable in countries which apply the " rule of the shorter term ": when a work is simultaneously published in a Convention State and a non-Convention State, the Convention State will be taken to be the source country regardless of the term of protection in the non-Convention State.

For the 2009 season, a new rule for determining the Pro Bowl coaches resulted in the disappearance of one Playoff Bowl legacy.