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Politics And Jurisprudence In West Germany: State Financing Of Political Parties, Donald P. Kommers
Politics And Jurisprudence In West Germany: State Financing Of Political Parties, Donald P. Kommers
Journal Articles
The relationship between political parties and representative government has been an important consideration in the constitutional jurisprudence of the Federal Republic of Germany. The Federal Constitutional Court has gone further than any other constitutional tribunal in the West to promote a free and competitive party system, and the Court’s decisions affecting the status of parties under the Basic Law, especially those having to do with party finance, are a marvelous illustration of the interplay between politics and law. The Federal Constitutional Court’s decision in 1966 to invalidate a federal plan for subsidizing political parties is a good example of the …
International Order And National Sovereignty - They Can Co-Exist, Arthur Larson
International Order And National Sovereignty - They Can Co-Exist, Arthur Larson
Faculty Scholarship
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Right1, Right2, Right3, Right4 And How About Right?, Layman E. Allen
Right1, Right2, Right3, Right4 And How About Right?, Layman E. Allen
Book Chapters
Careful communication is frequently of central importance in law. The language used to communicate even with oneself in private thought profoundly influences the quality of that effort; but when one attempts to transmit an idea to another, language assumes even greater significance because of the possibilities for enormously distorting the idea. Word-skill is to be prized. Few have expressed this more aptly or succinctly than Wesley N. Hohfeld: ...[I]n any closely reasoned problem, whether legal or nonlegal, chameleon-hued words are a peril both to clear thought and to lucid expression.