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The right to bear arms is famously and specifically referenced in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Alas, for advocates of the right, the language of the amendment gets tangled up in the regulating of militias and the interpretation of commas. Now a multistate movement is trying to find...
In its final meeting of the semester, the Undergraduate Council voted last night to pass the UC Reform Act, which alters its constitution to increase the body’s size from 35 to 51 representatives. The vote—26-6-2—comes on the heels...
More innovation followed soon after, when Nesson decided that, in the interests of open access, the proceedings of the Tenenbaum case should be available online. “[In] the original constitution, the idea of a public trial was that anybody from the village could come and see the trial...
Analysts believe the Prime Minister's decision to resign actually strengthens democracy, showing his commitment to parliamentary procedures, a good sign for the fledgling democracy born after 10 years of violence and political floundering. "He has taken the democratic high road of parliamentary practice," says Dixit, "This is a very...
It's true that only a handful of relatively low-profile state Democrats had formally filed their candidacies, including state representative Bill Kortz and Joe Torsella, the former director of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, who issued a statement on Tuesday insisting that he intends to stay in the...