Populism has often been considered to thrive on polarisation. By identifying a ‘people’ and an ‘elite’, populist political actors encourage dichotomy between self other; further, placing opponents outside the lines of normative national identity promotes praxis discouraging compromise indicting those who seek understand other. At same time, populists come prominence during times grievance. The ...

This article clarifies the precise connection between two early national Supreme Court decisions, little-known Terrett v. Taylor (1815) and landmark Dartmouth College Woodward (1819). The missing link these cases is incorporation. Both disputes arose in turmoil of post-Revolutionary disestablishment as state legislatures directly challenged rights colonial corporations. While had been incorpora...

One important problem concerning incommensurability is to explain how theories that are incommensurable can nevertheless compete. In this paper I shall briefly review Kuhn’s account of the difference between revolutionary and non-revolutionary conceptual developments. I shall argue that his taxonomic approach and the no-overlap principle it entails does not suffice to distinguish between revolu...