Most of its articles concerned individual liberty, but the declaration's emphasis fell equally on the prerogatives of the state as expressed through law.
Recent lead articles concerned the hiring of correction officers, construction managers, adult-services caseworkers, traffic enforcement agents and sewage treatment workers, all city jobs.
"No issue of source reliability or verification of the facts arose because the articles concerned the claimant's recorded words and conduct in the presence of the journalists, in addition to matters of public record.
Previous articles concerned the department's morale problems, the loss of senior supervisors to retirement, the lack of senior black officers, and how the department's own tactics and reputation hurt its attempts to recruit young black men.
One of the articles concerned a study from 2008 on whether cleanliness has an effect on morality judgments, and essentially the authors were unable to replicate the original finding.
In recent years many articles concerned with the mechanics of functionally graded plates have been published.
