New SHPA Constitution

New ZealandÊs Shaky Economic Constitution

n August 2000, New Zealand’s left minority coalition will abolish the Employment Contracts Act. In conjunction with other interventionist legislation, this marks a far-reaching revision of the country’s current liberal ‘economic constitution’, i.e. the fundamental rules that determine how people coordinate their activities (Kasper 2000: 20-25). Seen in isolation, most of the legislative changes...

The Constitution and the New Deal

The constitution of laidlomycin, a new antimycoplasmal antbiotic.

properties of laidlomycin, C37H62O12(M+; 698), m.p. 151-153°, [a] "]2,2 +51.3°(CHC13), obtained from culture filtrates of a strain of Streptomyces eurocidicus var. asterocidicus were previously reported by us.') Chemical structure of this antibiotic had not been elucidated at that time. The present communication deals with this issue, and structure I (Fig. 4), is proposed on the basis of the fo...

Coase and the Constitution: A New Approach to Federalism

This paper proposes a new approach to the centuries-old question of federalism. In a word, we approach the problem offederalism from a Coasian or property-rights perspective. That is, instead of attempting to draw an arbitrary boundary line between state and federal spheres of power through traditional legal or semantic analysis of the constitution and previous judicial precedents, this paper p...

200K+ Crowdsourced Political Arguments for a New Chilean Constitution

In this paper we present the dataset of 200,000+ political arguments produced in the local phase of the 2016 Chilean constitutional process. We describe the human processing of this data by the government officials, and the manual tagging of arguments performed by members of our research group. Afterwards we focus on classification tasks that mimic the human processes, comparing linear methods ...