Constitutional Government for China1

Ensuring Constitutional Authority: Continuity of Government

______________ 1See Appendix A for a list of the Department of Defense Directives (DoDDs) relevant to continuity of government activities. 2See Federation of American Scientists, 1999a. Press interest in federal COG programs increased after the cold war. See Emerson (1989) and Gup (1991, 1992). 3Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution seems to provide the constitutional authority for milita...

The Impoundment Dilemma: Crisis in Constitutional Government

Hiv and Medical Privacy: Government Infringement on Prisoners' Constitutional Rights

The high rate of HIV infection among Americans, the ease with which the virus is transmitted, and the terminal nature of the virus have made its existence a vital national public health issue.' Concern regarding HIV is heightened in U.S. correctional facilities, in which the prevalence of the virus is disproportionately high.2 As of December 31, 2003, 1.9% of the total U.S. prison population wa...

Distance Learning in China1

In line with the popularity of computer and communication technologies, the largest country in the world — China — has joined the era of the Internet. As one of the most important activities on the Internet, distance learning is widely developed by key universities in China. The advantage of distance learning compared to traditional education is its flexibility, timely distribution, scalability...

Reading Isaiah Berlin in China1

A year before his death in 1997, Isaiah Berlin was invited by a Chinese scholar named Ouyang Kang to write a summary of his thought for the Chinese reading public. Berlin, as Dr Henry Hardy recalls, much valued this new readership, and therefore wrote his last essay, ‘My Intellectual Path’. It was first published in English in the New York Review of Books, and then included in The Power of Idea...