The Malaysian Federal Constitution: An Islamic or a Secular Constitution?

Welfare, Voting and the Constitution of a Federal Assembly

Equal and proportional representation are two poles of a continuum of models of representation for the assembly of a federation of states. The choice of a model has repercussions on the welfare distribution in the federation. We determine, first by means of Monte Carlo simulations, what welfare distributions result after assemblies that were constituted on the basis of different models of repre...

Utilitarianism, Degressive Proportionality and the Constitution of a Federal Assembly

Prakrtivada or Inheritent Constitution of an Individual

Before starting the treatment, the examination of the diseased and the disease plays an important role for a successful result. Ayurveda has a clear understanding of the mental and physical constitution of the various types of patients with established criteria. This knowledge hinders the physician from stretching his hand towards a wrong medicament and from giving a wrong advise to the patient...

(An Analysis of Principle no.8 of the Constitution)

This article has analyzed principle no.8 of the Constitution from three aspects: 1-verbal analysis 2-conceptual analysis 3-ways to execute this principle. In first section a precise definition of "call to good", "good and evil" (both in law and in jurisprudence) and "government" have been presented. In second section to have a better understanding of principle no.8, issues such as the relation ...

An Abductive Theory of Constitution∗

The first part of this paper finds Craver’s (2007) mutual manipulability theory (MM) of constitution inadequate, as it definitionally ties constitution to the feasibility of idealized experiments, which, however, are unrealizable in principle. As an alternative, the second part develops an abductive theory of constitution (NDC), which exploits the fact that phenomena and their constituents are ...