The Filipino Revivalist Epic 2Pol2

We won't call it myth, rather it's an epic story.  Just give the main story.  Maximum of 6 sentences.

Scores are:

6 impressive
3 average
0 abysmal

The Filipino Revivalist Epic 2Pol1

We won't call it myth, rather it's an epic story.  Just give the main story.  Maximum of 6 sentences.

Scores are:

6 impressive
3 average
0 abysmal

Latin Political and Legal Maxims

 (Hans Schmidt, 1912)

1. Vox populi est vox dei. - The voice of the people is the voice of God.
2. Salus populi, suprema lex. - The welfare of the people is the supreme law.
3. Dura lex, sed lex. - The may be harsh but it is the law.
4. Fiat justitia ruat caelum - Let justice be done even if the heavens fall.
5. Qui custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who guards the guardians?
6. Delegata potestas non delegari potest. - Delegated powers can no longer be delegated.
7. Ignorantia legis, non excusat neminem. - Ignorance of the law does not excuse anyone.
8. Ei incumbit probatio qui dicit non qui negat. - It is the duty of he who accuses to prove, not the one who denies.
9. Cuius est solum ejus usque ad caelum et ad infornos. - Whoever owns the soil holds title all the way up to the heavens, and down beneath the earth.
10. Par in parem, non habet imperium. - A state cannot claim jurisdiction over another.
11. Actus non facit, reum nisi mens sit rea. - The act is not guilty unless the mind is also guilty.
12. Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas. - Use your own as to avoid injury to another's property.
13. Ubi dubium, ibi libertas - If there is doubt, there is freedom.
14. Nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadam causa. - No one is to be twice harassed for and and the same cause.

Photo Credits:

Hans Schmidt.  "Cicero's Speech Attacking Catilina." 1912  http://www.askart.com/askart/s/hans_w_schmidt/hans_w_schmidt.aspx.  and http://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Ciceros-Speech-Attacking-Catilina-in-the/DAFE716CA0BDF808.  Last accessed 2013.

Compass

Get to know yourself politically and morally.  Take the test.


Political Alignment Test

http://politicalcompass.org/test


Moral Alignment Compass Test

http://www.pa.msu.edu/~aaronson/alitest/aintro.html

Nationalism Theory Added Reading for 1st Week after Prelim

Here's the link to Tolkien, Alignment, Non-Violence, and Why Hobbits are Required for Middle-earth to Survive by Mordicai Knode (Dec. 27, 2012):


http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/12/tolkien-alignment-non-violence-and-why-hobbits-are-required-for-middle-earth-to-survive

Supplement;

Heaven as a political theme in Augustine’s City of God by Emile Perreau-Saussine (Cambridge: 2009).

http://www.polis.cam.ac.uk/contacts/staff/eperreausaussine/Heaven_as_a_political_theme_in_Augustine.pdf

A Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson

A backgrounder on the story of The Wheel of Time.

The Robert Jordan Story

A short Bio on my favorite author, Robert Jordan.  A Memory of Light is the last book of his series, to be published this 2013, which is 5 years after his death.  The series is rich with allegories of politics, philosophy, and mysticism.

"There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the wheel of time." - Robert Jordan