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The prevailing characterization of the seventeenth century English Atlantic Empire as one in which commercial interests are pre-dominated seems to be myopic. Gradually legal and political considerations, as much as economic considerations, shaped imperial policies throughout this period, and formed the basis for the development of England's imperial constitution. Analyzing the expansion and evolution of the Empire on the basis of law reveals why the...
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In the mid-nineteenth century the Ottoman Empire witnessed the emergence of an official criminal legal policy and procedures to preclude state officials from inflicting pain over civilians while executing their duties. In less than two decades, new penal codes and statutes clearly and explicitly banned state officials from resorting to infliction of pain against a civilian to exercise state authority, as method of criminal interrogation and as discretionary...
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