Katherine Dreier and the Société Anonyme

давать разъяснения по вопросам судебной практики; суд первой инстанции по делам особой важности; вопросы правильного применения законодательной власти Российской Федерации; председатели судебных палат; Президиум Верховного Суда; изучать и обобщать судебную практику, анализировать судебную статистику; проект федерального закона; аппеляции и жалобы граждан против незаконных действий чиновников разных уровней; нарушения избирательных и налоговых законов; территориальное разделение страны; принимать закон.

II. Agree or disagree

1. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation form the basis of the system of general jurisdiction courts of the Russian Federation.
2. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation is a cassation instance in relation to the federal courts of general jurisdiction of republics or oblasts.
3. The Plenum of the Supreme hears cases relating to the organization of activities of judicial chambers.
4. The structure of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation consists of 2 chambers: Judicial Chamber on Civil cases and Judicial Chamber on Criminal Cases.
5. Administrative Courts have successfully implemented their activity in the Russian Federation for many years.
6. Administrative Courts will depend on the state bodies.

III. Answer the questions

1. What is the supreme judicial body of all courts of general jurisdiction?
2. What are the functions of the Supreme Court of the RF?
3. What is meant by “the right of the legislative initiative” which the Supreme Court of the RF is empowered with?
4. How does the Supreme Court of the RF act for the federal courts of general jurisdiction of republics or oblasts?

Katherine Dreier and the Société Anonyme

William Clark

"[America] has developed along the material rather than the immaterial, the concrete rather than the divine."

(Katherine Dreier) ¹

"The art of the new painters takes the infinite universe as its ideal, and it is to the fourth dimension alone that we owe this new measure of perfection."

(Apollinaire)

"An artist expresses himself with his soul, with the soul the artwork must be assimilated."

(Marcel Duchamp)

Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877-1952) was born in Brooklyn, New York. Her father had amassed a modest fortune in an iron importing business. She had three sisters: Mary, Margaret and Dorothea, who between them combined an active commitment to social reform, progressive politics and modern art.

Mary Dreier was a US labor reformer active in leadership roles in the suffrage movement. Although independently wealthy, she won the trust of working women and became active in the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL). Mary walked the picket lines with strikers and was arrested and treated just as brutally by the police. The WTUL's establishment in 1903 drew together three important social currents flowing through early twentieth century America: the labor movement, the Womens' Movement, and the social reform movement of the Progressive Era. This coalition of wage-earning and middle-class women fought for the eight-hour day, decent wages, women's suffrage and protective workplace laws. She was a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, who was also active in the WTUL.

Margaret Dreier was also a labor leader and reformer and joined the WTUL becoming president of the New York branch and playing a major role in organising support for the strikes of 1909-11 against the garment industry. In 1929 President Herbert Hoover named her to the planning committee of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. In the 1930s she became an enthusiastic supporter of the New Deal which - influenced by the WTUL agenda - brought greater security to workers' lives and seen the instigation of the WPA which nurtured the post war generation of artists.

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