Beyond the Scientology case : towards a better definition of what constitutes a religion for legal purposes in Australia having regard to salient judicial authorities from the United States of America as well as important non-judicial authorities
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The Purpose of Ritual
THE one man who is never consulted as to the theory of ritual is the one who performs that ritual. Is he not likely to know better what he intends than the man who has never carried it out, and who probably scorns it in his heart ? " That is all very well," I may be told, " but if you ask a savage why he baptizes or is baptized, marries or is married, buries or is buried, he will either be completely nonplussed or else give you some rationalization which is quite worthless." I leave aside the question whether any rationalization is worthless. I think most psychologists would be very careful to note rationalizations as clues to the motive which is rationalized. But let that be. What I object to is the suggestion that the savage (if there is such a thing) stands quite apart in his inability to answer a difficult question fired at him without warning, or in his tendency to invent an explanation when he has not got one on the tip of his tongue. Put the same sort of question to any intelligent European, ask him why he goes to church, why he had his children christened, and he will either have no answer, or else invent some reason which we can show is not the right
La inseguridad jurídica en normas de contratación estatal
It is established by different studies that the issue of government procurement has been marred by several factors, the test objective to publicize these factors, we take as starting point the constant conflict between the branches of government to try and organize this subject; will collect and analyze diverse regulatory and case material in order to achieve evidence and demonstrate the different concepts of constant change that produces excessive regulation of the subject procurement and is in turn causing rapid changes that result in legal uncertainty for our law on the Contract Status.