This article critically examines Justice McHugh’s use of the idea of representative government, an idea that has been crucial to the development of the implied freedom of political communication in the High Court. According to Justice McHugh, the Court ought to limit itself to what he calls the ‘constitutionally prescribed system of representative government’, a conception ostensibly grounded u...

In the latest volume of Bruce Ackerman’s We the People, he sets out to demonstrate that the Constitution has been legitimately amended by “unconventional” means, or by mechanisms other than the Article V amendment process. In making this argument, Ackerman offers a rich constitutional history of the Founding period, the Reconstruction era, and the New Deal. He successfully demonstrates that unc...

With the apparent failure of the European Constitution (at least on the first try...), the search for a pan-European civic ‘identification mechanism’ is as likely to be intensified as it is to be abandoned. Given that most political theorists are reluctant to formulate a liberal pan-European nationalism, a ‘thicker’ version of constitutional patriotism might seem an attractive (and relatively m...

We describe the synthesis and mesomorphic behaviour of 4-(lH,lH-perfluorooctyloxy)4'-methoxy biphenyl. Two mesophases of smectic E and smectic A types were observed. X-ray diffraction study of the smectic E phase indicates a herringbone arrangement of

The existence of the Covid-19 pandemic is a very dangerous threat to nation and state, so concrete steps are needed deal with its spread. This research aims find out notion social protection in constitution, as well assess alignment Indonesian Government's vaccination policy constitution. normative juridical legal research. policies constitutional values public compliance policies. results show...