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2 May 2008, 11:03 am
The foundations of modern psychology were laid by 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes , who argued that scientific causes could be established for every sort of phenomenon through deductive reasoning. [read post]
25 Mar 2015, 11:15 am by June Casey
” Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO of New America “A book that manages to meld Hobbes, James Bond, science fiction, and Supreme Court decisions is a rare read. [read post]
6 Aug 2012, 9:27 am by Francisco Macías
”  To provide some chronological context, it is worth noting that Edmund Burke came into the debate on the “State of Nature” almost two hundred years after Thomas Hobbes, and one hundred years after John Locke. [read post]
2 Oct 2023, 4:07 am by jonathanturley
(The Hobbs Act allows for a charge of extortion without a threat of violence but rather the use of official authority.) [read post]
13 Jun 2013, 3:59 am by Terry Hart
” • • • Redefining Free Culture was originally posted on Copyhype • • • FootnotesSee, for example, The Ethics of Consent, pp. 45-51 (Oxford University Press 2010), citing Thomas Hobbes, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill.See, for example, Lynch v. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
The other day, I was blogging about tags, and somebody asked what are all the tags. [read post]
23 Oct 2015, 3:35 am by Randy Barnett
The necessary implication of this praise was that Justices Kennedy, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito were being activist in finding a judicially-enforceable limit on the Commerce and Necessary and Proper Clause powers of Congress. [read post]
26 Jul 2019, 7:42 am by Mark Rienzi
Hobbs) and employment context (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. [read post]
3 Jun 2018, 1:52 pm
Dignity at once constrains and empowers.In an incisive and discriminating discussion of Michael Rosen’s treatment of Kant and the idea of dignity in the former’s book, Dignity: Its History and Meaning (2012), Thomas E. [read post]
10 Jun 2019, 7:30 am by Sandy Levinson
 As Britton-Purdy notes, "as Thomas Hobbes," the greatest, most incisive, and most frightening of all English-language political theorists, emphasizes, "a people is a strictly artificial construction, which exists and acts only through the institutions that define its sovereignty. [read post]
14 Apr 2017, 6:00 am by Sandy Levinson
  One need not necessarily root for the opponents of the Constitution (at least in 1787-88) in order to lament that it was not a far better document than in fact it was (and, even more to the point, is the case in the 21st century).In any event, this is not a book about the clashes between “civic republican” and “liberal” dispositions or about the extent to which the Framers’ generation was more under the sway of David Hume, John Locke, Montesquieu, or, for that… [read post]
8 Dec 2021, 5:21 am
 The extraordinary  Ngoc Son Bui (my interview with him here) has organized a very interesting workshop (Constitutional Law of Greater China, 9-10 December 2021, Oxford Programme in Asian Laws) around essays that will be contributed to a Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China that is likely to become a standard in the field and an important reference for anyone interested in issues of Chinese constitutionalism (Program here). [read post]
30 Jun 2016, 4:19 am by Daniel Philpott
PDF version A review of Elizabeth Shakman Hurd's Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton, 2015) and Saba Mahmood's Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (Princeton, 2016) *** In recent years, the principle of religious freedom has been drafted into America’s culture war. [read post]
26 May 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Crow Sidesteps Panel’s Questions About Gifts to Clarence Thomas MSN – Michael Macagnone (Roll Call) | Published: 5/23/2023 A billionaire Republican donor brushed off questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee about his relationship with Justice Clarence Thomas, in a letter that argues the panel did not have the authority to investigate the lavish gifts he provided to the member of the U.S. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  James Madison had suggested that constitutional protections of rights were, ultimately, only “parchment barriers” against the desires of those with political power, whether democratic majorities or oligarchs, to get their way. [read post]