The article is devoted to the study of constitutional values in aspect concept-construct model. As a result analysis system Russian from point view legal discourse hierarchy its elements, offers justification approach that determines unity their status. axiology modern foundations statehood predetermined by national history. search for new approaches actualized processes transformations have fo...

Lord Chief Justice Mansfield declared in Somerset v. Stewart (1772) that the nature of slavery is ‘‘so odious . . . nothing can be suffered to support it but positive law.’’ In this essay, I trace the principle laid down in Somerset through several cases that occurred during the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and I pay particular attention to two conservative judicial opinions in the ...

It was the popular media that first made the comparison between an Obama presidency and that of Franklin Roosevelt. The media did not wait until President Obama took office, but began the comparisons in earnest after the presidential election of 2008, perhaps most famously on Time Magazine’s November 24, 2008 cover depicting a photoshopped Barack Obama in a characteristic pose of the New Deal P...

This article aims to analyze Luso-Brazilian thought, exploring its medieval, modern, and contemporary foundations. An analysis of the readings appropriations made liberalism constitutionalism in world adaptations consents afforded for assimilation a constitutional/liberal vocabulary are key understanding Iberian political thought at turn nineteenth century. In addition meanings entry ‘revolutio...

Why does the treatment of American constitutional politics presented in We the People depart so radically from models of constitutional deliberation developed in the type of constitutional economics pioneered by James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock? The paper defines three premises that account for the divergence, and concludes by proposing an inquiry into constitutional design that requires insig...

BACKGROUND Ayurveda is one of the most ancient and widely practiced forms of medicine today, along with Traditional Chinese Medicine. It consists of determining an individual's constitution or Prakriti and current imbalance(s) through the use of multimodal approaches. Ayurveda practitioners may choose to include either a self-reported or structured interview constitutional questionnaire as part...