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2013/08/01
Metagaming for Constitutional Design
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In game theory a metagame is a game about another game, generally with the objective of finding the best rules or design for that other ...
2013/07/24
Who coined the name "United States of America"?
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In another forum a participant took the position that the authoritative version of the Declaration of Independence was not the one signed by...
2013/07/23
Are private "grand juries" legal?
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In another forum the question was raised by a lawyer: Where is the case law providing that a grand jury can be formed and do anythin...
A comma would have helped
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In another forum a participant asked the question: But isn't the central question ... whether even "law-trained persons" in ...
2013/07/16
Ratchet of rot
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With few exceptions, bad Supreme Court precedents seem to move government in only one direction — toward greater power over people — despite...
2013/07/14
Tsarnaev not guilty of federal charges
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The Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with multiple federal offenses, but none of them are authorized by the U.S. Co...
2013/07/09
Diversity and representivity
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Some question has arisen concerning my proposals for selecting public officials using a multi-stage process of alternative sortition (rand...
2013/07/07
Make a difference!
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When I founded the Constitution Society in 1994, and later set up its website , committed defenders of the Constitution, as original...
2013/07/01
The economics of tyranny
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The renewed focus on surveillance by the NSA and other U.S. government agencies has brought criticism of it as evidence of the emergence of ...
2013/06/21
A right to nonsurveillance?
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Public outrage over broad surveillance of all of us by the NSA and other government agencies raises the constitutional issue of just what ri...
2013/06/18
A defect in the Constitution
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A defect in the Constitution that allows much of that to which we object arose from the presumption on the part of some Framers, who we ca...
2013/06/09
Can amendments save the Constitution?
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Discussions of the unconstitutional actions of government officials often lead to the question of whether those usurpations could be remedie...
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2013/05/31
Poletecracy
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A political or management system can be characterized by the kind of people it elevates to positions of authority. A number of terms have be...
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2013/04/28
Judicial issues for busy people
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Tour 4 Judicial Overview For busy people who want to quickly acquire insight into judicial problems and reforms, we recommend the ...
2013/02/20
Eleven-state Solution
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It should be clear that neither a one-state nor a two-state solution can work for the Israeli-Palestinian dispute. The Palestinians are ...
2013/02/17
Obstacles to holding federal agents accountable
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To understand what we face in trying to hold federal agents accountable for their misconduct, we need to examine the legal foundations. C...
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2013/02/15
No state prosecutions of fed agents
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Why state officials can't arrest, prosecute, or otherwise impede federal agents who violate the Constitution In response to a request ...
2012/10/01
Three needed voting reforms
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While most of the attention has been on issues like campaign finance and voter identification, there are three reforms that have been somewh...
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2012/09/12
Debt is a bet
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For as long as men have sought profit from investment there have been speculative bubbles. Every one of those investments are bets that the ...
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