Limited government powers versus fundamental rights, 2022

Reasoning with fundamental rights

People often withdraw previously drawn conclusions in light of new information. This defeasible reasoning is also important for law, where judges often have to change their verdicts in light of new evidence. Here we investigate defeasibility in the context of conflicting fundamental rights. When, for instance, law to property conflicts with law to information, can one of these rights be “defeat...

Rights Revisited, and Limited

One of the most justly famous result of social choice theory is Sen’s Theorem on the impossibility of a Paretian liberal. In two recent papers, Salles introduced the notion of limited rights both in an aggregation function framework and in a social choice function framework. He then proved Sen-type impossibility theorems. In the aggregation function framework an individual has a ‘right’ if when...

The Separation of Powers and Representative Government

C urrent controversies over presidential power suggest. that significant separation of powers depends on the existence of some effective counterweight to the executive ruler, which in turn presupposes a disposition to restrain the ruler that does not come from the ruler himself. One might conclude that schemes for separation of powers grow out of either a fundamental opposition to ruling or at ...

Fundamental Aspects for E - Government

The upcoming initiatives using ICT in the government process should strengthen the benefit of e-government in most countries. Since e-government among other e-related terms is a widely (interpreted) term, it is sometimes challenging to understand the objective and goals of an initiative. Therefore, in this chapter, the authors introduce and explain most e-government related terms. Even more, th...

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