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Full-Text Articles in Legal History
Recognition: A Case Study On The Original Understanding Of Executive Power, Robert J. Reinstein
Recognition: A Case Study On The Original Understanding Of Executive Power, Robert J. Reinstein
University of Richmond Law Review
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Presidential Memories: Lincoln's Relationship With The Jews - Remembered On President's Day, Kenneth Lasson
Presidential Memories: Lincoln's Relationship With The Jews - Remembered On President's Day, Kenneth Lasson
All Faculty Scholarship
This article examines the relationship President Abraham Lincoln had with members of the Jewish faith.
Ever since George Washington, U.S. presidents have made inclusive gestures toward Jewish-American citizens and soldiers, but only Abraham Lincoln, whose 291st birthday we celebrated last week, ever officially intervened on their behalf. He did it twice within the span of two years. During his political career Lincoln had many Jewish associates, advisers and supporters.
During the Civil War General Grant issued General Order No. 11, which is also discussed. This order was a result of Grant’s perception that Jews were participating in a black market …
Collective Choice, Justin Schwartz
Collective Choice, Justin Schwartz
Justin Schwartz
This short nontechnical article reviews the Arrow Impossibility Theorem and its implications for rational democratic decisionmaking. In the 1950s, economist Kenneth J. Arrow proved that no method for producing a unique social choice involving at least three choices and three actors could satisfy four seemingly obvious constraints that are practically constitutive of democratic decisionmaking. Any such method must violate such a constraint and risks leading to disturbingly irrational results such and Condorcet cycling. I explain the theorem in plain, nonmathematical language, and discuss the history, range, and prospects of avoiding what seems like a fundamental theoretical challenge to the possibility …