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		<title>Know your (state&#8217;s) rights</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/11/04/know-your-states-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 14:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal ran a piece recently about the current anti-Washington sentiment reviving an old debate over the 17th Amendment.  This Amendment, which provides for the direct election of US Senators, has been denounced by some Republicans.  A repeal of the law would involve appointing senators by state legislators. &#8220;People would be better off [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/05/04/is-there-a-states-rights-issue-in-the-affordable-care-act/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Is there a states&#8217; rights issue in the Affordable Care Act?'>Is there a states&#8217; rights issue in the Affordable Care Act?</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/08/11/a-state-by-any-other-name/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: A state by any other name'>A state by any other name</a></li>
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		<title>Bring it on back?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/18/bring-it-on-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 15:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A piece from Newsweek explores (and criticizes) tea party veneration for the Constitution.  What I found most interesting is a distinction between two types of &#8220;originalism&#8221; in Constitutional interpretation. While conservatives generally prefer the second approach, many disagree over how it should be implemented—including the Supreme Court’s most committed originalists, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/04/13/from-the-source/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: From the source'>From the source</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/10/04/dont-worry-about-the-constitution/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Don&#8217;t worry (about the Constitution)'>Don&#8217;t worry (about the Constitution)</a></li>
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		<title>A pledge to (repeal) America</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/23/a-pledge-to-repeal-america/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/23/a-pledge-to-repeal-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:01:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the Republican plan really a plan at all? The House Republican Caucus will unveil its &#8220;A Pledge to America&#8221; this morning, a governing plan that echoes the &#8220;Contract with America&#8221; Newt Gingrich (and current minority leader John Boehner) used in 1994 to help sweep Republicans into the House majority.  The final version of the [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/01/14/i-promise-america/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: I promise, America'>I promise, America</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2009/05/01/the-new-republican-brand/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The new Republican brand'>The new Republican brand</a></li>
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		<title>Should the song remain the same?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/23/should-the-song-remain-the-same/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/09/23/should-the-song-remain-the-same/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing for Time, Adam Cohen criticizes Supreme Court Justice Atonin Scalia for his opinion that the Constitution does not bar sex discrimination.  In the piece, Cohen criticizes &#8220;originalism,&#8221; a judicial philosophy subscribed to by Scalia, which interprets the Constitution strictly on its plain language, as intended by the writers.  Arguing for more liberal judicial philosophies, [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/05/20/the-world-court/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: The world court'>The world court</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/01/04/montana-allows-assisted-suicide/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Montana allows assisted suicide'>Montana allows assisted suicide</a></li>
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		<title>Makes much more sense to live in the present tense</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/27/makes-much-more-sense-to-live-in-the-present-tense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/27/makes-much-more-sense-to-live-in-the-present-tense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:58:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at CNN, Will Bunch bemoans how Glenn Beck is attempting to rewrite history in order to support his own political agenda. For thousands of followers […], there is a genuine desire to relearn American history. The only problem is that what they&#8217;re learning is bunk. It&#8217;s not history as it happened, but rather a [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/06/sacred-but-political-texts/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Sacred (but political) texts'>Sacred (but political) texts</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/08/how-the-west-was-won-and-where-it-got-us/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: How the West was won and where it got us'>How the West was won and where it got us</a></li>
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		<title>All those yesterdays</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/25/all-those-yesterdays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philosophy, the Constitution, and respect for the Founding Fathers According to a report by the Associated Press, Republicans have proposed forty-two amendments to the Constitution during the current Congress, compared to twenty-seven such proposals by the Democrats (one third of which are part of a package from a single member). This is surprising because many [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/09/history-helps/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: History helps'>History helps</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/02/17/what-the-framers-intended/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: What the Framers intended'>What the Framers intended</a></li>
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		<title>The big rethink</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/08/09/the-big-rethink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 13:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate doesn&#8217;t have it easy these days.  George Packer&#8217;s full-frontal assault on the upper chamber of Congress in last week&#8217;s New Yorker has been making the rounds in the national media, and many have been eager to agree with his excruciating portrait of a dysfunctional institution: The two lasting achievements of this Senate, [...]


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		<title>Philosophizing cloth</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/13/philosophizing-cloth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muslim burqa and equal rights On The New York Times’ The Stone, its new philosophy commentary series, University of Chicago Professor Martha Nussbaum wrote in response to Spain’s recent, narrow rejection of a ban on public wearing of the Muslim burqa. She gives a quick history of what Western political philosophy has said on [...]


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		<title>History helps</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/09/history-helps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reply to Han In his post today, Han disagrees with some big guns&#8211;Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor and George Nethercutt, Jr.&#8211;arguing against the importance of historical knowledge for legal, policy, and political philosophy questions. Alas, I&#8217;m with Sandy and Chip on this one.  As to the law, Han writes: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t seem to me that in [...]


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		<title>How the West was won and where it got us</title>
		<link>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/08/how-the-west-was-won-and-where-it-got-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepublicphilosopher.com/2010/07/08/how-the-west-was-won-and-where-it-got-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>han</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is knowledge of our country’s history necessary for engaged citizens? A few days ago, an op-ed in the USA Today by Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor and George Nethercutt, Jr. lamented the lack of knowledge among Americans of the history of the nation and its founding documents. In their words: Parents, educators and leaders at all levels of [...]


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