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People may be interested in certain political outcomes because those outcomes will signal the relative status of various individuals...

Constitutional interpretation is something far more creative and, frankly, motivated than a straightforward translation exercise.

Like all human artifacts, constitutions reflect the limits of the human mind, limits of foresight and of moral judgment.

What we should really want is both institutions and theory--not only pure economic theory informed by the existence of specific institutions

Writers of old made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes. They will not flatter us in the errors we are already committing; and

They, like the rules they enjoin, are invested with considerable emotional meaning and therefore are believed for intrinsic reasons and not

The society and, in a sense, the nation preceded the state without having to be created by it. In such a setting, political parties represen

People were no cleverer then than they are now; they made as many mistakes as we. But not the same mistakes. They will not flatter us in the

We can see a crowd... Whether [it] is a mere gathering or a mass or an organized body or any other kind of social entity is a question which

...in consequence of this absence of rule or principle, one side is at present as often wrong as the other; the interference of government i