Social Reform and Constitution. Frank J. Goodnow

Frank J. Wethered

prize. Only the older practitioners can recall the furore of hope aroused by the announcement of Professor Koch's claims for his tuberculin, but Sir Douglas Powell was the one English physician to be accorded a small amount to bring back from his visit to Berlin. As Frank Wethered was then acting as his assistant he was charged with the carrying out .of the method, and so the writer was enabled...

Respect Worthy: Frank Michelman and the Legitimate Constitution

When people gather to celebrate the contributions of a preeminent scholar like Frank Michelman, the most likely focus of discussion will be the important papers that scholar wrote in years past that have helped define a field and have taken on a canonical status. Frank has certainly written his share of those, and in a number of different areas of legal study. But there is special enjoyment in ...

Persons, Social Agency, and Constitution

Goodnow p590-597

The mammalian immune system has an extraordinary potential for making receptors that sense and neutralize any chemical entity entering the body. Inevitably, some of these receptors recognize components of our own body, and so cellular mechanisms have evolved to control the activity of these ‘forbidden’ receptors and achieve immunological self tolerance. Many of the genes and proteins involved a...

Social Security Sustainability and Reform

Social Security is the foundation of retirement and disability income support in the United States, paying out $615 billion in benefits in 2008 to nearly 51 million beneficiaries. Although the core functions of Social Security remain largely unchanged, the system now faces an exceptional challenge: It is not financially sustainable in its current form. In the coming years, efforts to meet this ...