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DID POPE'S PLEA BARGAIN SAVE GALILEO'S LIFE? HISTORIAN: ASTRONOMER PERSECUTED FOR HIS VIEWS ON ATOMISM -- NOT SUN -- UNTIL URBAN STEPPED IN
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As a young, reform - inded cardinal and man of letters in the
early 17th century, Maffeo Barberini rejoiced in verse over the
intellectual stirrings linked to Copernicus's bold discovery that
the planets revolve around the sun.
He also became friend and patron to his fellow Florentine,
Galileo Galilei, the greatest scientist of his day, and to many of
Rome's painters and poets. Thus when Barberini became Pope Urban
VIII in 1623, hopes rose for a new openness in the Church.
Yet a decade later, Galileo was condemned by the same pope,
after a trial that, according to the Church's official ...
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Statute of Westminster.
Magazine article from: Canada and the World Backgrounder
; ...December 1931 Today, Canada becomes an independent nation--almost. The British Parliament has passed the Statute of Westminster, making all its Dominions free and sovereign nations; all that is, except Canada. The last colonial ties have...
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Holyrood presses Westminster for control of firearms legislation
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...which remains reserved to Westminster and Scottish ministers are...sympathetic" response from Westminster. A spokesman for Alex Salmond...Scottish ministers and their Westminster counterparts on enabling the...went on to the Westminster statute book last year. These effectively...
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SNP bid to take over firearms law and ban airguns vetoed by Westminster
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...the co-operation of Westminster. All firearms' legislation...the UK is reserved to Westminster and since July Mr MacAskill...off procedure in which Westminster could agree to the Scottish...on to the Westminster statute book last year. These...
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Westminster school board will get funds
Newspaper article from: Daily Breeze
; A gender harassment policy the Westminster school board adopted meets enough of a a state agency...obligated to follow the law as declared by state statute and regulation." Westminster board members Helena Rutkowski, Judy Ahrens and...
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Blunkett legislates to silence lone protester at Westminster
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...activities as a desperate last resort. Westminster Council was first to try to evict him...could not be over-ridden by medieval statutes guaranteeing MPs safe passage in the streets of Westminster. Sir George Young, the Tory MP for...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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They can't get rid of Section 28 - the Act which created Scotland's Parliament won't let them; THE Scottish Executive's proposal to scrap Section 28 has provoked widespread anger. But leading lawyer PETER WATSON argues that the Executive are exceeding their powers and that the matter should only be decided by MPs at Westminster.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; ...body but a creature of statute. It was given a role...limited range of powers by Westminster. In the case of Section...what is reserved to Westminster. Wendy Alexander...opportunities" are reserved for Westminster. They are defined as...
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Sir Edward Coke -- A Freethinker Before His Time
Magazine article from: Freethought Today
; ...our own borders, threw out anti-miscegenation statutes and overturned 150 years of American stare decisis...English judges were to enforce automatically the statutes of Westminster. Only a jury's refusal to convict and the finality...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Europe may halt rape case reform.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...up to challenge than it is to rush things and get the legislation wrong.' Government officials said similar statutes at Westminster could not apply north of the Border because of the different legal system in Scotland. The Scottish Executive...
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Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages.(Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History
; ...Century (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999). It is startling as well to find Glanvill, Bracton, Magna Carta, the Statutes of Westminster I and II, and Britton lumped together under the heading "Norman Law." James A. Brundage University of Kansas
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Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State
; ...other important legal documents from the period after the Norman Conquest, such as those of Henry I and the Statutes of Westminster. The literary sources section includes humorous readings such as the Ballad of the Tyrannical Husband as well...
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