Judaism, monotheistic religion developed among the ancient Hebrews. Judaism is characterized by a belief in one transcendent God who revealed himself to Abraham, Moses, and the Hebrew prophets and by a religious life in accordance with Scriptures and rabbinic traditions. Judaism is the complex

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan: …well defined in Kaplan’s book Judaism as a Civilization: Toward the Reconstruction of American-Jewish Life (1934). Its goals were further refined in subsequent works such as The Meaning of God in Modern Jewish Religion (1937), Judaism Without Supernaturalism (1958), and The Religion of Ethical Nationhood (1970). In 1935 the Reconstructionist,…

Michael von Faulhaber: …delivered his famous sermons entitled Judaism, Christianity, and Germany (translated in 1934), which emphasized the Jewish background of Christianity and pointed out that the teachings of the New Testament logically followed those of the Old. He further emphasized that the German tribes had become civilized only after Christianization and asserted…

St. Ignatius of Antioch: The letters: warnings against false teachings: …two groups of heretics: (1) Judaizers, who did not accept the authority of the New Testament and clung to such Jewish practices as observing the Sabbath, and (2) docetists (from the Greek dokein, “to seem”), who held that Christ had suffered and died only in appearance. Ignatius untiringly affirmed that…

ballad: Chronology: “Judas,” the oldest example found in Francis James Child’s exhaustive collection, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882–98), dates from 1300, but until the 17th century ballad records are sparse indeed. As an oral art, the ballad does not need to be written down to…

St. Jude ; Western feast day October 28, Eastern feast days June 19 and August 21) was one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is the reputed author of the canonical Letter of Jude that warns against the licentious and blasphemous heretics. The devotion to him as patron saint of desperate

H.E.R.: Music: …contributed to the soundtrack for Judas and the Black Messiah (2021); in 2022 the track won the Grammy for best traditional R&B performance. In addition, in June 2021 Wilson released her first full-length album, Back of My Mind, which debuted at number one on Billboard’s R&B albums chart. The work…

Aristobulus I was a Hasmonean (Maccabean) Hellenized king of Judaea (104–103 bc). The son of Hyrcanus I, he broke his late father’s will and seized the throne from his mother and jailed or killed his brothers. According to the historian Josephus, Aristobulus conquered the Ituraeans of Lebanon and

prophecy: New Testament and early Christianity: …them are Agabus of Jerusalem; Judas Barsabbas and Silas, who also were elders of the Jerusalem church; the four prophesying daughters of Philip the Evangelist; and John, the author of Revelation. The term prophet is used with reference to an office in the early church along with evangelists and teachers,…

Julia O’Faolain: The novel The Judas Cloth (1992) concerns the 19th-century Roman Catholic clergy. With her husband, Lauro Martines, O’Faolain edited Not in God’s Image: Women in History from the Greeks to the Victorians (1973). She also translated several works from the Italian under the name Julia Martines.

Judas Iscariot was one of the Twelve Apostles, notorious for betraying Jesus. Judas’s surname is more probably a corruption of the Latin sicarius (“murderer” or “assassin”) than an indication of family origin, suggesting that he would have belonged to the Sicarii, the most radical Jewish group,

Judas Maccabeus was a Jewish guerrilla leader who defended his country from invasion by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes, preventing the imposition of Hellenism upon Judaea, and preserving the Jewish religion. The son of Mattathias, an aged priest who took to the mountains in rebellion when

heavy metal: AC/DC, Aerosmith, Judas Priest, and Alice Cooper established an international fan base.

Rembrandt: The Leiden period (1625–31) of Rembrandt: …or 1629 Rembrandt finished the Judas Repentant and, among other works, painted The Artist in His Studio. After amazingly rapid changes in style from 1625 onward, Rembrandt reached a first major peak in his artistic development in the late 1620s.

St. Thomas ; Western feast day December 21, feast day in Roman and Syrian Catholic churches July 3, in the Greek church October 6) was one of the Twelve Apostles. His name in Aramaic (Teʾoma) and Greek (Didymos) means “twin”; John 11:16 identifies him as “Thomas, called the Twin.” He is called

redbud: …Mediterranean region, is often called Judas tree, for the betrayer of Christ, who is said to have hanged himself from such a tree, after which the white flowers turned red with blood or shame.

Karl Schönherr: …1897 he wrote a play, Der Judas von Tirol (rewritten 1927; “The Judas of the Tirol”), in which the Judas of a rural passion play becomes a real-life betrayer. Glaube und Heimat (1910; “Faith and Homeland”), often considered his best play, concerns peasant resistance to the Counter-Reformation of the church.

Jean Renoir: Early years: …war; La Bête humaine (1938; The Human Beast, or Judas Was a Woman), an admirable free interpretation of Zola; and especially La Règle du jeu (1939; The Rules of the Game), his masterpiece. Cut and fragmented by the distributors, this classic film was also regarded as a failure until it…

Gospel of Judas, apocryphal Christian scripture from the 2nd century ad attributed to the apostle Judas Iscariot. The gospel advances a Gnostic cosmology and portrays Judas in a positive light as the only apostle who fully understands Jesus’ teachings. Although lost for centuries, the Gospel of

Philip Kaufman: Films in the 21st century: After Twisted (2004), which starred Ashley Judd as a San Francisco homicide inspector suspected of being a serial killer, Kaufman made the television movie Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012). The HBO production featured Clive Owen as the mercurial author and Nicole Kidman as the equally formidable journalist

Charles Hubbard Judd was a U.S. psychologist and exponent of the use of scientific methods in the study of educational problems. His research dealt with psychological issues of school curriculum, pedagogical methods, and the nature of reading, language, and number. Judd was brought to the United

the Judds: …country music duo, consisting of Naomi Judd (originally Diana Ellen Judd; b. January 11, 1946, Ashland, Kentucky, U.S.—d. April 30, 2022, outside Nashville, Tennessee) and her daughter Wynonna Judd (originally Christina Claire Ciminella; b. May 30, 1964, Ashland, Kentucky), whose effective vocal harmonies, melding of traditional country sounds with popular…

Donald Judd was an American artist and critic associated with Minimalism. Credited as Minimalism’s principal spokesman, Judd wrote what is considered to be one of the most significant texts of the movement, “Specific Objects” (1965). The article laid out the Minimalist platform of stressing the

Donald Judd was an American artist and critic associated with Minimalism. Credited as Minimalism’s principal spokesman, Judd wrote what is considered to be one of the most significant texts of the movement, “Specific Objects” (1965). The article laid out the Minimalist platform of stressing the

The Day the Earth Caught Fire: …reporter Peter Stenning (played by Edward Judd) is investigating recent events of unusual weather. He finds that the nearly simultaneous testing of nuclear weapons by the Soviet Union and the United States have apparently knocked Earth from its orbit and hurtled it toward the Sun. The planet begins to heat;…

Gerrit P. Judd was a U.S. missionary to Hawaii who played a crucial role in governing the islands. The son of a physician, Judd studied medicine in his father’s office and at a medical school in Fairfield, N.Y. He was graduated in 1825 but the following year underwent a religious experience and

Gerrit P. Judd was a U.S. missionary to Hawaii who played a crucial role in governing the islands. The son of a physician, Judd studied medicine in his father’s office and at a medical school in Fairfield, N.Y. He was graduated in 1825 but the following year underwent a religious experience and

Nadia Nerina was a South African prima ballerina renowned for her remarkable versatility of roles. After touring South Africa in 1942, she went to England in 1945, where she studied under Dame Marie Rambert. Nerina became prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet in 1951, excelling in both classical,

the Judds: …country music duo, consisting of Naomi Judd (originally Diana Ellen Judd; b. January 11, 1946, Ashland, Kentucky, U.S.—d. April 30, 2022, outside Nashville, Tennessee) and her daughter Wynonna Judd (originally Christina Claire Ciminella; b. May 30, 1964, Ashland, Kentucky), whose effective vocal harmonies, melding of traditional country sounds with popular…

the Judds: …Nashville, Tennessee) and her daughter Wynonna Judd (originally Christina Claire Ciminella; b. May 30, 1964, Ashland, Kentucky), whose effective vocal harmonies, melding of traditional country sounds with popular music styles, and mother-daughter chemistry produced a string of hits in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Jeddah, city and major port in central Hejaz region, western Saudi Arabia. It lies along the Red Sea west of Mecca. The principal importance of Jeddah in history is that it constituted the port of Mecca and was thus the site where the majority of Muslim pilgrims landed while journeying to the holy

the Judds, American country music duo, consisting of Naomi Judd (originally Diana Ellen Judd; b. January 11, 1946, Ashland, Kentucky, U.S.—d. April 30, 2022, outside Nashville, Tennessee) and her daughter Wynonna Judd (originally Christina Claire Ciminella; b. May 30, 1964, Ashland, Kentucky),

Jude the Obscure, novel by Thomas Hardy, published in 1894–95 in an abridged form in Harper’s New Monthly as Hearts Insurgent; published in book form in 1895. Jude the Obscure is Hardy’s last work of fiction and is also one of his most gloomily fatalistic, depicting the lives of individuals who are

Martin Buber: From Vienna to Jerusalem: …Buber founded the influential monthly Der Jude (“The Jew”), which he edited until 1924 and which became the central forum for practically all German-reading Jewish intellectuals. In its pages he advocated the unpopular cause of Jewish-Arab cooperation in the formation of a binational state in Palestine.

Letter of Jude, brief New Testament letter written to a general Christian audience. Although the epistle claims to have been written by St. Jude the Apostle, “a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James” (1:1), the author’s identity is uncertain. The cultivated Greek style is notable for

Letter of Jude, brief New Testament letter written to a general Christian audience. Although the epistle claims to have been written by St. Jude the Apostle, “a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James” (1:1), the author’s identity is uncertain. The cultivated Greek style is notable for

St. Jude ; Western feast day October 28, Eastern feast days June 19 and August 21) was one of the original Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is the reputed author of the canonical Letter of Jude that warns against the licentious and blasphemous heretics. The devotion to him as patron saint of desperate

Judaea, the southernmost of the three traditional divisions of ancient Palestine; the other two were Galilee in the north and Samaria in the centre. No clearly marked boundary divided Judaea from Samaria, but the town of Beersheba was traditionally the southernmost limit. The region presents a

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Education and first dramatic works.: …Maid”], Der Misogyn [“The Misogynist”], Die Juden [“The Jews”], Der Freigeist [“The Free Thinker”]) are witty commentaries on human weaknesses—bigotry, prejudice, nagging, fortune hunting, matchmaking, intrigue, hypocrisy, corruption, and frivolity. Set against this background are virtuous men and women who are considerate and selfless, sensitive and helpful, forthright, and faithful…

Annette, Freiin von Droste-Hülshoff: …a novella, Die Judenbuche (1842; The Jew’s Beech), is a psychological study of a Westphalian villager who murders a Jew. For the first time in German literature, the fate of the hero is portrayed as arising from his social environment; the crime becomes understandable within the context of the life…

death: Judaism: …that of the “bone called Luz” (or Judenknöchlein, as it was to be called by early German anatomists). In his Glossa magna in Pentateuchum (ad 210), Rabbi Oshaia had affirmed that there was a bone in the human body, just below the 18th vertebra, that never died. It could not…

Judenräte, Jewish councils established in German-occupied Poland and eastern Europe during World War II to implement German policies and maintain order in the ghettos to which the Nazis confined the country’s Jewish population. Reinhard Heydrich, chief of Nazi Germany’s Gestapo, established the

Israel: Zionism: Theodor Herzl began advocating a Jewish state as the political solution for both anti-Semitism (he had covered the sensational Dreyfus affair in France) and a Jewish secular identity. Herzl’s brief and dramatic bid for international support from the major powers at the First Zionist Congress (August 1897) failed, but, after…

Aramaic language: …northeast of Damascus), Palestinian-Christian, and Judeo-Aramaic. West Aramaic is still spoken in a small number of villages in Syria.

Ladino language, Romance language spoken by Sephardic Jews living mostly in Israel, the Balkans, North Africa, Greece, and Turkey. Ladino is very nearly extinct in many of these areas. A very archaic form of Castilian Spanish mixed somewhat with Hebrew elements (as well as Aramaic, Arabic, Turkish,

Ladino language, Romance language spoken by Sephardic Jews living mostly in Israel, the Balkans, North Africa, Greece, and Turkey. Ladino is very nearly extinct in many of these areas. A very archaic form of Castilian Spanish mixed somewhat with Hebrew elements (as well as Aramaic, Arabic, Turkish,

Antônio José da Silva was a Portuguese writer whose comedies, farces, and operettas briefly revitalized the Portuguese theatre in a period of dramatic decadence. Silva was born in Brazil, the son of Jews. Though his parents professed Christianity, his mother was accused by the Inquisition of

judge, public official vested with the authority to hear, determine, and preside over legal matters brought in a court of law. In jury cases, the judge presides over the selection of the panel and instructs it concerning pertinent law. The judge also may rule on motions made before or during a

Louis Feuillade: Judex (1916) and La Nouvelle Mission de Judex (1917–18; “The New Mission of Judex”) feature Judex, the daring detective with the sweeping black cape, a righter of wrongs who was the prototype of many future film heroes. The tremendous success of these pictures saved the…

judge, public official vested with the authority to hear, determine, and preside over legal matters brought in a court of law. In jury cases, the judge presides over the selection of the panel and instructs it concerning pertinent law. The judge also may rule on motions made before or during a

boxing: Ring, rules, and equipment: … the contest along with two judges outside the ring. In most jurisdictions, however, the referee does not participate in the judging, and three ringside officials score the bout. The officials award points to each boxer for each round, and a boxer must win on two of the three scorecards to…

Bernhard Gillam: …of the pro-Republican comic weekly Judge, which he developed into a powerful political voice. During the presidential campaigns of 1888 and 1892, Gillam’s cartoons depicted the dangers of the free-trade policy of the Democrats and the benefits of Republican protectionism. Gillam’s career was cut short when he died of typhoid…

Sylvester Stallone: …The Specialist (1994), Assassins (1995), Judge Dredd (1995), and Get Carter (2000). Although most of those films had only limited success at the box office in the United States, Stallone’s ability to attract audiences overseas proved enormous. In 2010 he cowrote, directed, and starred in The Expendables, a thriller about…

Jerry Springer: In 2019 Judge Jerry debuted, with Springer presiding over legal disputes. The show ended in 2022.

Judy Sheindlin: …best known for the show Judge Judy (1996–2021).

Judy Sheindlin is an American jurist and television personality who was best known for the show Judge Judy (1996–2021). Blum earned (1963) a Bachelor of Arts degree from American University, Washington, D.C. She was the only woman in her graduating class at New York Law School, New York City, when

Sholem Asch: Judge Not—). These novels describe the cultural and economic conflicts experienced by eastern European Jewish immigrants in America.

Spain: Granada: …“judge of the frontier” (juez de la frontera y de los fieles del rastro); the judge was a Muslim official who heard Christian complaints against the Granadans. This procedure did much to reduce frontier incidents between Muslims and Christians.

Ivan Klíma: …Loves); Soudce z milosti (1986; Judge on Trial), a Prague novel about a judge who is jeopardized by his friendships with liberals; and Láska a smetí (1988; Love and Garbage), the narrator of which is a banned Czech writer who sweeps streets for a living while meditating on Franz Kafka…

Hattie McDaniel: …major part in John Ford’s Judge Priest (1934), in which she had an opportunity to sing a duet with humorist Will Rogers. Her role as a happy Southern servant in The Little Colonel (1935) made her a controversial figure in the liberal Black community, which sought to end Hollywood’s stereotyping.…

Aaron Judge is a professional baseball player for the New York Yankees (2016– ) who in 2022 set the American League record for the most home runs hit in a season. His 62 home runs broke the 61-year-old record held by former Yankee Roger Maris. In December 2022, he agreed to a nine-year, $360

Aaron Judge is a professional baseball player for the New York Yankees (2016– ) who in 2022 set the American League record for the most home runs hit in a season. His 62 home runs broke the 61-year-old record held by former Yankee Roger Maris. In December 2022, he agreed to a nine-year, $360

Mike Judge is an American animator, writer, director, and producer who was one of the foremost satirists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Judge was born in Ecuador to an archaeologist father and teacher mother and was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated with a physics degree

Mychal Judge was an American Roman Catholic priest, Franciscan friar, and New York City Fire Department chaplain who was the first identified casualty of the September 11 attacks. Several groups have called for his canonization in the Roman Catholic Church. Judge was the son of Irish immigrants,

Mike Judge is an American animator, writer, director, and producer who was one of the foremost satirists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Judge was born in Ecuador to an archaeologist father and teacher mother and was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated with a physics degree

Mychal Judge was an American Roman Catholic priest, Franciscan friar, and New York City Fire Department chaplain who was the first identified casualty of the September 11 attacks. Several groups have called for his canonization in the Roman Catholic Church. Judge was the son of Irish immigrants,

Mychal Judge was an American Roman Catholic priest, Franciscan friar, and New York City Fire Department chaplain who was the first identified casualty of the September 11 attacks. Several groups have called for his canonization in the Roman Catholic Church. Judge was the son of Irish immigrants,

Vincent D’Onofrio: …Duvall) accused of wrongdoing in The Judge (2014). He portrayed a misguided security guard in Jurassic World (2015), a coach in the biopic Pele: Birth of a Legend (2016), and Jack Horne in the 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven. In addition, he played a supervillain in the Marvel Cinematic…

Milt Hinton was an American jazz musician, a highly versatile bassist who came of age in the swing era and became one of the favourite bassists of post-World War II jazz. Hinton grew up in Chicago, where he began playing bass in high school and then worked with jazz bands in the early to mid-1930s,

theosophy: History: Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907), and William Quan Judge (1851–96). A Russian aristocrat, Blavatsky immigrated to the United States in 1873 after many years of travel and study in Europe and the Middle East. Olcott, an American lawyer, newspaperman, and student of spiritualism—a 19th-century movement based on the belief that the…

judgment, in all legal systems, a decision of a court adjudicating the rights of the parties to a legal action before it. A final judgment is usually a prerequisite of review of a court’s decision by an appellate court, thus preventing piecemeal and fragmentary appeals on interlocutory

Marlene Dietrich: …Touch of Evil (1958), and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). She was also a popular nightclub performer and gave her last stage performance in 1974. After a period of retirement from the screen, she appeared in the film Just a Gigolo (1978). The documentary film Marlene, a review of her life…

Nicolas Poussin: The Raphael of our century: …Family on the Steps, and The Judgment of Solomon. In all of those the artist integrated the figures with their setting in a strict and uncompromising manner that resulted in scenes that are not only conceived in depth but also highly unified across the two-dimensional surface of the picture. The…

sampling: …alternative to probability sampling is judgment sampling, in which selection is based on the judgment of the researcher and there is an unknown probability of inclusion in the sample for any given case. Probability methods are usually preferred because they avoid selection bias and make it possible to estimate sampling…

United States: The judicial branch: The Judiciary Act of 1925 provided the justices with the sole discretion to determine their caseload. In order to issue a writ of certiorari, which grants a court hearing to a case, at least four justices must agree (the “Rule of Four”). Three types of cases…

crime: Interrogation and confession: …the police, known as the Judges’ Rules. Principally, the Judges’ Rules obliged the investigating police officer to caution suspects that they were not required to answer any question and that anything they did say might be given in evidence at trial. That caution was required to be stated at the…

Book of Judges, a book of the Old Testament (Hebrew Bible) that, along with Deuteronomy, Joshua, I and II Samuel, and I and II Kings, belongs to a specific historical tradition (Deuteronomic history) that was first committed to writing about 550 bce, during the Babylonian Exile. (The traditional

judgment, in all legal systems, a decision of a court adjudicating the rights of the parties to a legal action before it. A final judgment is usually a prerequisite of review of a court’s decision by an appellate court, thus preventing piecemeal and fragmentary appeals on interlocutory

Nishida Kitarō: The stages of Nishida’s thought: According to Nishida, judgment is formed by analysis of the intuitive whole. For instance, the judgment that a horse runs is derived from the direct experience of a running horse. The truth of a judgment is grounded on the truth of the original intuitive whole from which the…

Judgment at Nuremberg, American dramatic film, released in 1961, that was based on the post-World War II Nuremberg trials of former Nazi leaders. The film explores the complicity of the German people in the crimes committed by the state, including the atrocities of the Holocaust. (Read Martin

Studs Lonigan: …of Studs Lonigan (1934), and Judgment Day (1935).

judgment: A judgment generally operates to settle finally and authoritatively matters in dispute before a court. Judgments may be classified as in personam, in rem, or quasi in rem. An in personam, or personal, judgment, the type most commonly rendered by courts, imposes a personal liability or…

conflict of laws: Differences between civil-law and common-law countries in the absence of a choice by the parties: …special rules governing suits for judgments in rem (Latin: “with respect to the thing”), which concern proprietary legal rights. Unlike actions for judgments in personam (Latin: “with respect to the person”), which concern personal legal rights and may seek money damages or injunctions to do or not to do an…

Gerard David: …securely are his great altarpieces—the Judgment of Cambyses (two panels, 1498) and the triptych of the Baptism of Christ (c. 1502–07) at Bruges; the Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor (c. 1505); the Annunciation (1506) on two panels; and, above all, the documented altarpiece of the Madonna with Angels…

Maat: …the dead (called the “Judgment of Osiris,” named for the god of the dead) was believed to focus upon the weighing of the heart of the deceased in a scale balanced by Maat (or her hieroglyph, the ostrich feather), as a test of conformity to proper values.

Max Klinger: In 1887 The Judgment of Paris caused another storm of protest because of its rejection of all conventional attributes and its naively direct conception. In his painting Klinger aimed at neither classic beauty nor modern truth but at an impressive grimness with overtones of mysticism. His Pietà…

Thomas Arne: … (notable for “Rule, Britannia”) and The Judgment of Paris, both produced at the Prince of Wales’s residence at Cliveden in 1740. Arne’s settings of Shakespeare’s songs, written for revivals of As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice in 1740–41, provide the culmination of this early style.

Lucas Cranach, the Elder: Paintings: …of Venus, Lucretia, the Graces, the judgment of Paris, and other subjects that serve as pretexts for the sensuous female nude, in which Cranach appears as a kind of 16th-century François Boucher. The naive elegance of these ladies, whose slender, sinuous bodies defy basic principles of anatomy, were clearly to…

Giorgione: Works: …Trial of Moses and the Judgment of Solomon are generally agreed to number among the artist’s first works (c. 1495–1500). Although the figures look slightly archaic, the beauty of the landscape setting, with its soft melting distances, unmistakably reveals the hand of the painter of The Tempest. Most celebrated of…

Eric Ambler: …attacked Stalinism in the novel Judgment on Deltchev (1951), which marked his return to writing thrillers.

dilemma tale, typically African form of short story whose ending is either open to conjecture or is morally ambiguous, thus allowing the audience to comment or speculate upon the correct solution to the problem posed in the tale. Typical issues raised involve conflicts of loyalty, the necessity to

Last Judgment, a general, or sometimes individual, judging of the thoughts, words, and deeds of persons by God, the gods, or by the laws of cause and effect. The Western prophetic religions (i.e., Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) developed concepts of the Last Judgment that are

Rosh Hashana, a major Jewish observance now accepted as inaugurating the religious New Year on Tishri 1 (September or October). Because the New Year ushers in a 10-day period of self-examination and penitence, Rosh Hashana is also called the annual Day of Judgment; during this period each Jew

Franz Kafka: Works of Franz Kafka: Thus, in The Judgment a son unquestioningly commits suicide at the behest of his aged father. In The Metamorphosis the son, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed into a monstrous and repulsive insect; he slowly dies, not only because of his family’s shame and its…

Thai literature: …award-winning novel Kham phiphaksa (1982; The Judgment), in which a well-meaning rural school janitor is turned into a social outcast through the narrow-minded gossip and hypocrisy of the community in which he has grown up. By publishing his own works, Chart achieved a degree of financial independence that most writers…

Jacob Burckhardt: Works of Jacob Burckhardt: … (“Historical Fragments,” 1929 in Gesamtausgabe; Judgments on History and Historians, 1958) selects highlights from his lecture manuscripts and demonstrates impressively Burckhardt’s gift for visualizing history as a whole. Both books contain passages that can be interpreted as prophetic visions of the violent totalitarian states of the 20th century; but more…

Judicature Act of 1873, in England, the act of Parliament that created the Supreme Court of Judicature (q.v.) and also, inter alia, enhanced the role of the House of Lords to act as a court of appeal. Essentially, the act was a first modern attempt to reduce the clutter—and the consequent

Australia: An authoritarian society: …were no representative institutions, but Acts introduced in 1823 and 1828 provided for executive and legislative councils, with the major officers of government serving in both and an equal number of private individuals, chosen by nomination, in the latter. More significant at this stage was the articulation of a judicial…

judicial activism, an approach to the exercise of judicial review, or a description of a particular judicial decision, in which a judge is generally considered more willing to decide constitutional issues and to invalidate legislative or executive actions. Although debates over the proper role of

Cayman Islands: Government and society: A Judicial and Legal Services Commission advises the governor on judicial appointments and disciplinary control over the members of the judiciary. The commission has eight members, including the president of the Court of Appeal and seven others who are appointed by the governor in consultation with…