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The Authoritative Text As Imperative To Comprehensibility Of Legislation, James Maxeiner
The Authoritative Text As Imperative To Comprehensibility Of Legislation, James Maxeiner
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The most understandable of texts is of little use as law if it is not clear that it is authoritative. This is the comparative lesson of this essay. American law is—Americans say—indeterminate. American law is indeterminate because American texts, clear as they may be in wording, often are not authoritative; other texts apply too and may be inconsistent. German law is rarely indeterminate in this sense.
This essay identifies in bullet-points some comparative aspects of clarity of American and German law. Why is American law indeterminate? Why is German law not? What, if anything, do these differences …
Making Federalism Work: Lessons From Health Care For The Green New Deal, Jesse M. Cross, Shelley Welton
Making Federalism Work: Lessons From Health Care For The Green New Deal, Jesse M. Cross, Shelley Welton
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For decades, federalism had a bad reputation. It often was perceived as little more than a cover for state resistance to civil rights and other social justice reforms. More recently, however, progressive scholars have argued that federalism can meaningfully advance nationalist ends. According to these scholars, federalism allows for spaces in which norms can be contested, developed, and extended. This new strain of scholarship also recognizes, however, that these federalist structures can still shield national-level reforms from reaching all Americans. Many see such gaps as a regrettable but unavoidable feature of our federalist system. But to embrace federalism as an …