Law Order vs. Lawyer Order: Analyzing the Development of Jury Independence
ABSTRACT: This essay develops a model to analyze jury independence. Jury independence can be seen as a game between elites and the citizens who make up the jury. This essay …
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More Evidence the American Economic “Recovery” Will Disappoint
The University of Michigan consumer confidence index fell to 82.8 in May, from 88.3 in April. More importantly, the current conditions index slumped to 90.8, from 97.2 and the expectations index declined …
Let’s Level the Playing Field between the Dollar and Competing Currencies
Thanks to so many government restrictions on the use of potential monies that aren’t the dollar, we can only guess as to what the relationship between dollars and bitcoin would …
The Political Animal: Aristotelian Metaphysics for Austrian Schoolmen
ABSTRACT: This essay aims to introduce the Austrian community to the metaphysical principles of political life first discovered by Aristotle and subsequently clarified by Thomas Aquinas. I begin by contrasting …
The Theory of the Political Spectrum
ABSTRACT: This article introduces a new approach to the problem of political spectrum polarization. Political science has introduced a multitude of spectrograms based on different factors, dimensions, axes, and cardinal …
How Covid Put an End to Your Right to Due Process
The covid panic brought an end to due process in many ways. Among these are the end of speedy trials and the end of a timely hearing for landlords to …
How the Constitutional Convention Vastly Expanded the Powers of the President
All the articles of the draft plan having been considered by the convention, the amended draft was referred on August 31 to a grand Committee of Unfinished Parts. In the …
We Should Be Skeptical of Death Certificates and Cause-of-Death Data
Historically, the overwhelming majority of Americans have ignored death certificates and the topic of how they are processed, produced, and compiled for purposes of government statistics. During 2020, however, death …
China’s New Pandemic: A Bond Default Crisis
China was one of the first major countries to recover from the coronavirus-induced economic collapse—but at what cost? The country has taken on enormous levels of public and private debt, eased …
The Six Stages of the Creation of the State
[Excerpted from chapter 1 of The State: Its History and Development Viewed Sociologically] In the genesis of the state, from the subjection of a peasant folk by a tribe of …