The New Unwritten Constitution

America’s Constitution, Written and Unwritten

The Constitution and the New Deal

New ZealandÊs Shaky Economic Constitution

n August 2000, New Zealand’s left minority coalition will abolish the Employment Contracts Act. In conjunction with other interventionist legislation, this marks a far-reaching revision of the country’s current liberal ‘economic constitution’, i.e. the fundamental rules that determine how people coordinate their activities (Kasper 2000: 20-25). Seen in isolation, most of the legislative changes...

The constitution of laidlomycin, a new antimycoplasmal antbiotic.

properties of laidlomycin, C37H62O12(M+; 698), m.p. 151-153°, [a] "]2,2 +51.3°(CHC13), obtained from culture filtrates of a strain of Streptomyces eurocidicus var. asterocidicus were previously reported by us.') Chemical structure of this antibiotic had not been elucidated at that time. The present communication deals with this issue, and structure I (Fig. 4), is proposed on the basis of the fo...

Coase and the Constitution: A New Approach to Federalism

This paper proposes a new approach to the centuries-old question of federalism. In a word, we approach the problem offederalism from a Coasian or property-rights perspective. That is, instead of attempting to draw an arbitrary boundary line between state and federal spheres of power through traditional legal or semantic analysis of the constitution and previous judicial precedents, this paper p...