Amalgamation triggers linguistic constitutional challenge

Managing Linguistic Nationalism through Constitutional Design: Lessons from South Asia

Collaboration Between Public Heath and Law Enforcement: The Constitutional Challenge

n their article “Collaboration between Public Health and Law Enforcement: New Paradigms and Partnerships for Bioterrorism Planning and Response,” Butler et al. present a valuable introduction to the practical problems of coordinating public health and criminal law investigations (1). While this problem is not new in public health, the events of September 11, 2001, have given it a special urgenc...

Constitutional Theory, Constitutional Culture

Constitutional theorists and other constitutional commentators make heavy use of a paradigm that mistakes certain aspects of our current constitutional decisionmaking process for inherent parts of our constitutional structure and ignores other important aspects of that process entirely. These distortions and elisions raise concerns about the accuracy of much descriptive constitutional commentar...

Constitutional Economics/Constitutional Politics

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...

The Amalgamation of Automata

By in t roduc ing the concept of t he amalgamat ion of automata , we discuss their s t ruc tu re and classification in t e rms of characterist ic semigroups , w h e n the i npu t is a free semigroup generated by a set of i npu t symbols . W e demons t r a t e in this paper a direct p roduc t decomposabi l i ty of automata , and discuss the h ie rarchy of au tomata wh ich is character ized by th...