Some Canadian Constitutional Problems

Some Skepticism About Normative Constitutional Advice

Generalized Canadian traveller problems

This study investigates a generalization of the Canadian Traveller Problem (CTP), which finds real applications in dynamic navigation systems used to avoid traffic congestion. Given a road network G = (V, E) in which there is a source s and a destination t in V , every edge e in E is associated with two possible distances: original d(e) and jam d+(e). A traveller only finds out which one of the...

Constitutional tragedy in dying: responses to some common arguments against the constitutional right to die.

The author first explains that he will argue for the constitutional right to die, including the right of terminally ill persons to physician-assisted suicide. It would be a constitutional tragedy otherwise because it would entail that the Constitutional sanctions a horrible form of tyranny and that the Constitution allows citizens to author their own tragic endings. In the final part of the ess...

Constitutional Theory, Constitutional Culture

Constitutional theorists and other constitutional commentators make heavy use of a paradigm that mistakes certain aspects of our current constitutional decisionmaking process for inherent parts of our constitutional structure and ignores other important aspects of that process entirely. These distortions and elisions raise concerns about the accuracy of much descriptive constitutional commentar...

On Some Constitutional Aspects of Chorea and on Its Sequelæ.

IF one sees many cases of chorea and investigates them in detail, one cannot help thinking that constitution plays a part of some importance in its setiology. In textbooks one finds remarks to the effect that the patients had already exhibited neurotic traits before the onset of the disease. Furthermore, among relatives cases of chorea and other mental and nervous diseases and abnormal personal...