He also issued two edicts concerning the pacification and conversion of Saxony, which reveal the brutality of the process as well as its gradual success.
Theodor Mommsen linked the establishment of the law school in Beirut with the need for jurists, since the city was chosen to serve as a repository for Roman imperial edicts concerning the eastern provinces.
If the reclusive, one-eyed Mullah Muhammad Omar is indeed the last word, he might consult his own Edict No. 14, a July 31 decree concerning the behavior of foreign nationals.
The edict dated 24 April 1996 concerning the reform of hospitalisation, the recent law of 4 March 2002 on patients' rights and access to information generate a new approach on design of information and communication systems.
But in 1685, the year in which Locke wrote the First Letter concerning religious toleration, Louis XIV had revoked the Edict of Nantes, and the Huguenots were being persecuted and forced to emigrate on mass.
It said afterward that it was not going to comment on the edicts because legal cases "might be referred to the court concerning the constitutional declaration".
The dispute over the authenticity of the biblical edicts has prompted interest in this passage from the Cyrus Cylinder, specifically concerning the question of whether it indicates that Cyrus had a general policy of repatriating subject peoples and restoring their sanctuaries.
Though Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, he is concerned that, once the war is over, this wartime edict would lack the force of law in the South.
Europeans, who were principally concerned with improving conditions for Ottoman Christians, looked first at those elements of the Tanzimat that appeared to be directed toward that goal (e.g., a proclamation in the 1839 edict of the principles of individual liberty, freedom from oppression, and equality before the law and a section of the 1856 edict that was concerned with the rights of Christians).
And if the government sees a political gain to be made, it could quickly escalate a niche community concern into a parliamentary edict just as we saw with the admittedly short-lived "burqa" ban.
