Pragmatic Democracy and Constitutional Government: Comments on Robert Eden

Constitutional Democracy and Public Judgements

This paper proposes a new conceptual framework of a liberal social order, which emphasizes the freedom of action in social interaction and the freedom of participation in social rule-making process. Our articulation of public decision-making process can be interpreted as a formal way of capturing the essence of constitutional democracy, which is an impure mixture of constructivist rationalism a...

Comments on Robert Reymond’s Supralapsarianism

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...

Comments on Robert Langland ’ s Lecture : “ Endoscopy and Beyond ”

Below I have put into writing my thoughts in connection with your lecture “Endoscopy and Beyond”† and especially the Section called “a pipe dream”. Also I have tried to digest your more recent letters and numerical experiment and I address at least some of the points that you raise in the last section. There are no doubt a number of inaccuracies below but I think most of them are good approxima...

The Rule of Law and the Legitimacy of Constitutional Democracy

The rule of law is a cornerstone of contemporary constitutional democracy1 as was underscored by its role in cementing the recent transitions from authoritarian or totalitarian regimes2 to constitutional democracy in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.3 In the broadest terms, the rule of law requires that the state only subject the citizenry to publicly promulgated laws, that the state’s legislative ...