Bakke: A Constitutional Analysis

Analysis of components of national identity in constitutional period poetry

One of the main areas of socialization is the strengthening and reproduction of national identity; it is felt more urgent in developing societies than in other societies due to the ongoing political, social and cultural developments. In Iran, attention was paid to national identity simultaneously with the acquaintance of Iranians with the manifestations of Western culture. Meanwhile, poets and ...

The bakke case and the fourteenth amendment.

Aslak Bakke Buan and Idun Reiten

Fomin and Zelevinsky [FZ1] have defined cluster algebras, and developed an interesting and influential theory about this class of algebras. We deal here with a special case of cluster algebras. Let B be an n×n integral skew symmetric matrix, or equivalently a finite quiver QB with n vertices and no loops or oriented cycles of length two. Let u = {u1, . . . , un} be a transcendence basis for F =...

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...