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  • Incorporation is settled law, but it is at the core of what conservatives see as wrong with the current constitutional jurisprudence.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Cass Sunstein Responds to “Constitution in Exile” Post: 2005

  • Legal scholars refer to these rights as being “incorporated” into the Fourteenth Amendment, and the logical justification is called the Incorporation doctrine.

    Supreme Court Preview: McDonald v. Chicago | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009

  • It was bright orange, titled Incorporation, and priced at a very reasonable -8,975, which was just a shade more than her car had cost.

    Resurrection Men Rankin, Ian, 1960- 2002

  • The Human Rights Act should really be entitled The "Incorporation into UK law of the right for citizens to sue the government in a British court, in the kinds of cases that used to be heard in a faintly quaint institution which doesn't resemble a British court in constitution or practice, and which we could safely ignore" Act.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • The Human Rights Act should really be entitled The "Incorporation into UK law of the right for citizens to sue the government in a British court, in the kinds of cases that used to be heard in a faintly quaint institution which doesn't resemble a British court in constitution or practice, and which we could safely ignore" Act.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • This integral unity of the whole sentence or expression, dominated by a perspective of ideas rather than of forms, which is achieved in Chinese by the elaboration of placement, is also characteristic of the structure of the languages of the American continent; but, these languages being polysyllabic, the vividness and unity are attained by a method described as Incorporation, whereby the accessories of relation are so included in or attached to the leading word that the whole expression assumes the form and sound of a single word.

    Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs William Gates 1901

  • On August 2, Senator Carl Levin, the Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee's Permanent Subcommittee for Investigations, reintroduced a bill called the Incorporation Transparency and Law Enforcement Assistance Act.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

  • "Incorporation" might be a better term, I think, for the process whereby appropriation is a mechanism by which empowered cultures engulf, subsume, take on or take over the aesthetic forms of minorities -- versus "assimilation", where the process is reversed, with minority cultures adopting the aesthetic forms of the dominant culture?

    Cultural Appropriation Hal Duncan 2006

  • "Incorporation," Originalism, and the Confrontation Clause:

    Libertarian Blog Place 2009

  • For an excellent case study of this process, see Richard Alba and Robert Orsi, “Passages in Piety: Generational Transitions and the Social and Religious Incorporation of Italian Americans,” in Immigration and Religion in America, ed.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

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