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The Questions Rehnquist Hasn't Had To Answer, Bruce Ledewitz
The Questions Rehnquist Hasn't Had To Answer, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals
Monzo Raises Taxing Issue, Bruce Ledewitz
Monzo Raises Taxing Issue, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals
The Death Penalty—An Issue Of Conscience And Conflict, Bruce Ledewitz
The Death Penalty—An Issue Of Conscience And Conflict, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals
Tales Of The Donkey-A New Future For The Democratic Party, Bruce Ledewitz
Tales Of The Donkey-A New Future For The Democratic Party, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Paper submitted to the Outreach Program of the Democratic Policy Commission to "identify emerging ideas and policy innovations among Democratic constituency groups, academics, policy experts and public officials." (Appendix D, p. 71) All papers were then reviewed by a group of volunteer policy specialists and their abstracts were subsequently "published and distributed at the appropriate Regional Round tables. All papers submitted were thereby made available to commission members and to other interested parties" (Id.). "Tales of the Donkey - A New Future for the Democratic Party" was submitted to the Democratic Policy Commission on Cross -Cutting Issues Affecting the Democratic …
The Death Penalty—An Issue Of Conscience And Conflict, Bruce Ledewitz
The Death Penalty—An Issue Of Conscience And Conflict, Bruce Ledewitz
Ledewitz Papers
Published scholarship collected from academic journals, law reviews, newspaper publications & online periodicals.”
Philosophy And The Constitution, Donald H. Regan
Philosophy And The Constitution, Donald H. Regan
Book Chapters
The Constitution is one of the great achievements of political philosophy; and it may be the only political achievement of philosophy in our society. The Framers of the Constitution and the leading participants in the debates on ratification shared a culture more thoroughly than did any later American political elite. They shared a knowledge (often distorted, but shared nevertheless) of ancient philosophy and history, of English common law, of recent English political theory, and of the European Enlightenment.They were the American branch of the Enlightenment,and salient among their membership credentials was their belief that reasoned thought about politics could guide …
Duties Of Preservation, Donald H. Regan
Duties Of Preservation, Donald H. Regan
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The central philosophical problem concerning our duties with regard to nature is this: We are strongly inclined to think we have certain duties which are not fully accounted for by instrumental arguments. We are also strongly inclined to hold a view about value that seems to make it impossible to account for these duties by any noninstrumental arguments. Hence our perplexity. It seems that we have duties to respect living creatures; to avoid causing the extinction of species; even to preserve complex parts of the environment s uch as a tropical rain forest or the Grand Canyon. If we ask …
Law's Halo, Donald H. Regan
Law's Halo, Donald H. Regan
Articles
Like many people these days, I believe there is no general moral obligation to obey the law. I shall explain why there is no such moral obligation - and I shall clarify what I mean when I say there is no moral obligation to obey the law - as we proceed. But also like many people, I am unhappy with a position that would say there was no moral obligation to obey the law and then say no more about the law's moral significance. In our thinking about law in a reasonably just society, we have a strong inclination to …