Reflections on American Constitutionalism

Reconciling Postmodern Public Administration and Constitutionalism: Some Reflections on the Ideas of Stuart Hampshire

Drawing on the ideas of Stuart Hampshire, this paper argues that American constitutionalism, thought of as a set of practices for resolving conflict, may be especially helpful in the postmodern condition because it encourages the resolution of conflict among different cultural conceptions of the good by practices of adversarial argument and procedural justice, rather than simply by force and vi...

Historical reflections on American legal psychiatry.

Reason and Will in the Origins of American Constitutionalism

science of politics. The debate on natural law, then, is largely about whether reason or will-or perhaps both-is the source of constitutional authority. The specific question before the Court in Calder was the constitutionality of a Connecticut statute which set aside a decree of the local probate court. Pursuant to that decree, Calder had been awarded a right to recover property under a will. ...

The American Cultural Identity: Philosophical Reflections on the Existing Controversies over its Nature

Plural Constitutionalism and the Pathologies of American Healthcare