Triangulating between Church, State, and Postcolony

Church and State in East Germany

Political Religion and Church-State Issues

In this paper we examine public attitudes on the role of religion in the American political process, as well as some public policy implications of those attitudes. Although the current American legal regime may lean toward strict separationism, the political system has seen renewed religious activism over the past three decades. Historically, religious involvement in American politics has been ...

Competing Enlightenment Visions of the Separation of Church and State

Church-State Separation, Healthcare Policy, and Religious Liberty

this paper sketches a framework for the separation of church and state and, with the framework in view, indicates why a government’s maintaining such separation poses challenges for balancing two major democratic ideals: preserving equality before the law and protecting liberty, including religious liberty. the challenge is particularly complex where healthcare is either provided or regulated b...

Triangulating and Guarding Realistic Polygons

We propose a new model of realistic input: k-guardable objects. An object is k-guardable if its boundary can be seen by k guards in the interior of the object. In this abstract, we describe a simple algorithm for triangulating k-guardable polygons. Our algorithm, which is easily implementable, takes linear time assuming that k is constant.