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Surveillance, Speech Suppression And Degradation Of The Rule Of Law In The “Post-Democracy Electronic State”, David Barnhizer Jan 2014

Surveillance, Speech Suppression And Degradation Of The Rule Of Law In The “Post-Democracy Electronic State”, David Barnhizer

David Barnhizer

None of us can claim the quality of original insight achieved by Alexis de Tocqueville in his early 19th Century classic Democracy in America in his observation that the “soft” repression of democracy was unlike that in any other political form. It is impossible to deny that we in the US, the United Kingdom and Western Europe are experiencing just such a “gentle” drift of the kind that Tocqueville describes, losing our democratic integrity amid an increasingly “pretend” democracy. He explained: “[T]he supreme power [of government] then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society …


De La Pirámide De Kelsen A La Pirámide Invertida, Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba Dec 2012

De La Pirámide De Kelsen A La Pirámide Invertida, Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba

Juan Carlos Riofrío Martínez-Villalba

El presente trabajo replantea la pirámide jurídica y la pule dándole la vuelta. Comienza haciendo un análisis crítico de la doctrina de Kelsen y de sus seguidores, quienes partieron de postulados idealistas derivados de la metafísica neokantiana. La segunda parte del estudio reexamina la cuestión, acogiendo abiertamente las bases realistas de la metafísica aristotélico-tomista. Desde ella se elaborarán nuevos conceptos para el derecho (v. gr. ser jurídico, potencia jurídica, espacio jurídico) que estructurarán por sí solos la pirámide invertida. Al final se analiza cómo la doctrina de la pirámide invertida recoge los aciertos de Kelsen y Merkl, junto a los …