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Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Is there any safe and effective way to completely replace a constitution?

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                 In countries all over the world, populations regularly amend or even replace their constitutions. But complete overhaul is ...
Monday, July 6, 2026

Some Striking Things That Franz Neumann Wrote in 1935

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I have posted quite a bit about Carl Schmitt here. Somewhat less about Hans Kelsen, but at least something . However, I may not have written...
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Monday, June 29, 2026

Jack Lively and William Nelson on the Natures of Democracy and Popular Sovereignty

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    I was reading philosophy back in the late 70s and early 80s when the books discussed here came out, but I was not reading anything on de...
Saturday, June 20, 2026

What are the Limits of Constituent Power?

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  In the field of study on the margins of law, politics, and philosophy there are a number of phrases that are as iconic as “Great taste! Le...
Friday, May 22, 2026

Oh yeah? MAKE ME!

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  OK, maybe might can't "make right" all by itself. But could power nevertheless be in the mix that has to be used to bake any...
Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Kendall III (along with Locke, Hall, and Rawls): On Social Compacts

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  In what Willmoore Kendall likely thought was his most important paper, "The Ultimate Issue Between Liberalism and Conservatism,"...
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I've published articles in the areas of epistemology, metaphysics, value theory, democracy, religion, and aesthetics (in such journals as JP, PPR, and Perspectives of New Music), and have edited a book on the philosopher Everett Hall, whose work I've championed for over 40 years. I've provided research and expert testimony to both the legislative and executive branches of Mass. government, and have been an occasional philosophy professor since 1978, when I received my Ph.D. from Brown University. Some of my papers can be downloaded from academia.edu and philpapers.org. I've written a book on democratic theory and review democracy books for 3:16 AM Magazine. I studied music composition in college but these days mostly improvise on synths, alone or with others. I have released improvised and composed music on such labels as Leo Lab, Tzadik, and Ogre-Ogress with talents like Gary Lucas, Mat Maneri, and Glenn Freeman. I used to interview musicians and review recorded music and books on music for Cadence Magazine, Signal to Noise, Bagatellen, and Paris Transatlantic. Some of my compositional and keyboard output can be heard on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube.
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