Polity articles from July 2006

Polity archives from July 2006

The Senate confirmation process and the quality of U.S. Supreme Court justices.
July 1, 2006... Some observers of the confirmation process for U.S. Supreme Court nominees have claimed that the contemporary process, by subjecting nominees to heavy scrutiny of their backgrounds and ideologies and a heightened risk of opposition from...

The violent years: responses to juvenile crime in the 1950s *.
July 1, 2006... Introduction In his 1997 State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton called for "a full-scale assault on juvenile crime," requesting legislation for more prosecutors, tougher penalties, a "war on gangs," and stricter gun control....

Judicial review without a Constitution *.
July 1, 2006... Introduction This article seeks to show that the current understanding of judicial review as derivative of or dependent upon a written constitution misconceives the doctrine as it developed during the formative period of American...

The dangerous life: natural justice and the rightful subversion of the state *.
July 1, 2006... Introduction While the setting is dramatic rather than philosophical, the confrontation between Creon and Antigone in Sophocles' famed play provides us with an occasion to consider the following question: Is there a basis in natural...

Revealed religion and the politics of humanity in Hume's philosophy of common life *.
July 1, 2006... Introduction What is the relationship between philosophic reflection and common life or pre-scientific experience? This question has been prominent since early modern philosophers such as Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke...

Berlin's two concepts of liberty: a reassessment and revision.(Isaiah Berlin)
July 1, 2006... The essence of liberty has always lain in the ability to choose as you wish to choose, because you wish so to choose, uncoerced, unbullied, not swallowed up in some vast system; and in the right to resist, to be unpopular, to stand up for your...