Iowa Territorial Legislature

Computers in the Legislature

Power in the US Legislature

Using a standard model of the US legislative system as a monotonic simple game, we look at rankings of the four types of players – the president, the vice president, senators, and representatives – induced by power indices. We show that regardless of the power index used, the president is always ranked above the other players, and a senator is always ranked above the vice president and a repres...

The Supreme Court as a Legislature

Territorial Assemblages Simulation for Territorial Intelligence

The following article is based on the theory of assemblage ontology seen as a framework to formalize new projects territories in a perspective of territorial intelligence. The area of research is PARIS-SACLAY Campus, which views the development of a world science cluster. The assemblages are simulating by means of simplicial complexes. Its objective is to offer new decision-making tools to terr...

Judges and Legislature: Values into Law

The legislature gives effect to the values of democracy and compromise in a pluralist society, but the legislation it produces is mediated in its application by the values inherent in the legal culture into which it is received. The judges complete the law promulgated by Parliament by applying it. In articulating the common law also, the judges act within the bounds of objective standards suppl...