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Trends. Throwing Out The Baby With The Bathwater: Form And Substance Of Peruvian Democracy, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses corruption and democracy in Peru during the time of President Alberto Fujimori.

Clinging To Democracy: Assessing The Russian Legislative-Executive Relationship Under Boris Yeltsin's Constitution, Ian R. Brown

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The 1993 Constitution of the Russian Federation has received harsh criticism as a document that confers strong powers upon the executive at the expense of a much weaker legislature. Such a disparity is understandable, as the Constitution was conceived out of the violent confrontation between President Boris Yeltsin and the rebellious communist-nationalist Duma in October 1993. Following the adoption of the Constitution in December 1993, many observers predicted a return to dictatorship in Russia.

Yet in practice, despite much heavy-handedness on the part of the president during the Yeltsin administration, the 1993 Constitution and the institutions it created have survived …

When Federal Law Is Also State Law: The Implications For State Constitutional Law Methodology Of Footnote 7 In Commonwealth V. Matos, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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The Origins Of American Democracy, Or How The People Became Judges In Their Own Causes, The Sixty-Ninth Cleveland-Marshall Fund Lecture , Gordon S. Wood

Cleveland State Law Review

The awesome power of this democratic polity, with people becoming judges in their own causes, was such that our political leaders over the past two centuries have struggled to constrain and mitigate its effects. In fact, that is what our current concern with campaign financing is all about. From the very beginning of our national history we Americans have used a variety of devices and institutions to immunize ourselves from the harmful consequences of too much democracy, too much factious promotion of private interests in the name of the people. No doubt the most important of these devices has been …

Original Intent: Does The Double Jeopardy Clause Apply To Incarceration?, Bruce Ledewitz

Ledewitz Papers

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Imperfect Death Penalty Not Acceptable, Bruce Ledewitz

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Constitutionalizing Kwik-E-Mart, Bruce Ledewitz

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Establishing A Federal Constitutional Right To A Healthy Environment In Us And In Our Posterity, Bruce Ledewitz

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Separatism And The Democratic Entitlement, Diane Orentlicher

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The Law Of The Jubilee In Modern Perspective, Bruce Ledewitz

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Law And The Coming Environmental Catastrophe, Bruce Ledewitz

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Courting Disrespect, Bruce Ledewitz

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Vote Dilution And The Census Undercount: A State-By-State Remedy, Christopher M. Taylor

Michigan Law Review

This Note argues that groups seeking to correct underrepresentation caused by the differential undercount do not have standing to sue the Secretary of Commerce but that they can sue their state governments in an effort to force them to use the best population data available in the construction of congressional districts. Part I details the deeply rooted character of the differential undercount, describes statistical means that could have been employed to adjust the 1990 census, and demonstrates that the adjusted count surpasses the official census as an accurate representation of the true population. Part II examines recent litigation that has …

Asimov Goes To Law School, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Empitness Of Majority Rule, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

In this Note, the author steers away from the current substantive debates surrounding the Voting Rights Act, its various amendments, and the "correct" way of interpreting its intended benefits and constitutionally accepted mandates. Instead, indirectly joins the many "radical" voices advocating for a departure from the majoritarian stranglehold-the decision-making process where fifty percent plus one of the voting population carry the election. The author does so not by suggesting yet another mechanism by which representatives may be elected, but by critiquing the perceived underpinnings of our democratic system of government. The author does not profess to delineate a definitive interpretation …

The First Stone Of The Death Penalty, Bruce Ledewitz

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Cruelly Unusual, Bruce Ledewitz

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Pa. Justices Were Wrong To Fill Spot, Bruce Ledewitz

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Recent Developments In Pennsylvania Death Penalty Law, Bruce Ledewitz

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A Fond Farewell, Bruce Ledewitz

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Perspectives On The Law Of The American Sit-In, Bruce Ledewitz

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The European Bank For Reconstruction And Development And The Post-Cold War Era, John Linarelli

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How To Prevent Another Larsen Affair, Bruce Ledewitz

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Punishment Most Cruel, Bruce Ledewitz

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Rico's Latest Victim—Social Protest, Bruce Ledewitz

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What's Really Wrong With The Supreme Court Of Pennsylvania, Bruce Ledewitz

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The Role Of Lower State Courts In Adapting State Law To Changed Federal Interpretations, Bruce Ledewitz

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Democratic Credentials, Donald J. Herzog

Articles

We've made a mistake, urges Bruce Ackerman. We've failed to notice, or have forgotten, that ours is a dualist democracy: ordinary representatives passing their statutes are in fact the democratic inferiors of We the People, who at rare junctures appear on the scene and affirm new constitutional principles. (Actually, he claims in passing that we have a three-track democracy.)' Dwelling lovingly on dualism, Ackerman doesn't quite forget to discuss democracy, but he comes close. I want to raise some questions about the democratic credentials of Ackerman's view. Not, perhaps, the ones he anticipates. So I don't mean to argue that …

It's Not Just Larsen, Bruce Ledewitz

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Clinic Bill Strikes At Nonviolent Protest, Bruce Ledewitz

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