Jessica
Jessica ♀ Apparently of Shakespearean origin. This was the name of the daughter of Shylock in
The Merchant of Venice (1596). Shakespeare's source has not been established, but he presumably intended it to pass as a typically Jewish name. It may be from a biblical name that appeared, in the translations available in Shakespeare's day, as
Jesca (Genesis 11:29;
Iscah in the Authorized Version). This occurs in a somewhat obscure genealogical passage; Iscah appears to have been Abraham's niece. Notable bearers of the name include the British actress Jessica Tandy (1909–94), the British writer Jessica Mitford (1917–96), and the American actress Jessica Lange (b. 1949). The name has been extremely popular since the 1990s.
Variant:
Jessika.
Short form:
Jess.
Pet forms:
Jessie,
Jesse.
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CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OVERSIGHT:CHARLES CANADY
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 2/25/1998; 700+ words
; ...important job of enforcing the civil rights laws for all Americans. The Division...mission. Historically, the Civil Rights Division fought hard...afforded equal protection of the law without regard to race or skin...current administration, the Civil Rights Division aggressively...
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Civil service reform in post-communist Europe: the bumpy road to depoliticisation.
Magazine article from: West European Politics; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...embarked on a path of continuous civil service reform leading to further...Lithuania and Latvia had adopted civil service laws in the mid- 1990s but failed to...other countries that have adopted civil service laws, Estonia passed a...
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CIVIL SERVICE TESTING SLOWS ROMNEY SEEKS TO LIMIT SYSTEM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/4/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...is trying to undermine civil service administratively...to do it by changing the law. "A lot of unions probably...could fulfill a lot of the civil service functions, until...Massachusetts adopted its civil service law in 1884, three years after...
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CIVIL RIGHTS ACT ANNIVERSARY:THEODORE SHAW
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 9/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...nation's anti- discrimination laws and its career attorneys had...experience as a young lawyer in the Civil Rights Division was the best...of America in support of the civil rights of those who had long...the equal protection of the law. Today, I believe that the Justice Department's Civil ...
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Civil Unions Now Routine in Vermont
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/8/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to Dean for signing the law. Vermont officials are...Now our `radical' civil union thing is the compromise...similar to Vermont's civil unions law have been introduced...taking another look at civil unions, though, because...
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 "Cape Times (South Africa)")
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Civil Union Bill gives gays no marriage choice.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 9/27/2006; 700+ words
; ...consequences of a marriage apply to a civil partnership and that all references to marriage in any other law, including the common law include a civil partnership - but with one exception...does not include a reference to civil partnership. The practical...
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The civil service they wish our country would have one day
Newspaper article from: The Manila Times; 8/31/2008; 700+ words
; ...do not just mean that civil servants must be persons who obey the law, such as the code of...think ethically. Ethical civil servants know their values...strategic. They know their law and they build alliances...colleagues to ensure a civil service that is characterized...
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 "Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)")
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Civil society in the Arab world: historical traces, contemporary vestiges.
Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ); 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Although the associations of civil society are assumed to be...cannot operate outside the law as the law is a prerogative...harmony between state and civil society, in other words, is a prerequisite for civil harmony. Antonio Gramsci...
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Civil rights doctrine reconsidered.(The Lost Promise of Civil Rights)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Historical Methods; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...book, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights, Risa L. Goluboff...University of Virginia School of Law, maintains that this scholarship...penetrate legal histories of civil fights. She attributes...promise of labor-based civil rights law from the nation's collective...
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Civil rights law enforcement: a time for healing.
Magazine article from: Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...are important: every civil rights law enforcement official...Constitution and the civil rights laws he or she will enforce...nation's civil rights laws reflect the outer boundaries...the boundaries of the law necessarily does violence to that consensus. Civil rights ...
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Civil Liberties
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Civil Liberties Civil liberties are individual freedoms intended...limited to, equal protection under the law, freedom of speech and association, religious...crime. While many tend to use the terms civil liberties and civil rights interchangeably...
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Civil Society
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...1805 – 1859), civil society was the realm of intermediate...household-based activities. Civil society is juxtaposed to the...the framework of the rule of law, accepting a certain commitment...the like. In their writings, civil society becomes a description...
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Civil Law
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Civil Law has two distinct meanings. As used within the American legal system, “civil law” is noncriminal law such as...law, and the rules governing procedure in civil cases. But “civil law”...
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
...interpretation, as occurred in the Civil Rights Cases (1883). Among...significant lasting effects of these laws was the establishment of federal authority to enforce criminal civil rights provisions. Although...the 1950s, in the South state law was often used to prevent African...Americans from ...
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Rights Commission with power to investigate civil rights violations but not to enforce civil rights laws and establishing a feeble remedy for voting rights violations. The Civil Rights Act of 1960 slightly strengthened the...
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