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Harvard University Library hopes to introduce a new electronic document service this spring that will allow students to order digitalized book excerpts from its collections...
...participatory democracy is in most cases something to be elevated and emulated, in the particular case of minority rights, electoral majorities should not have the final word. This is especially true when popular sentiment demands changes in the constitutions that provide our democracy’s stability and order, largely as a means of exclusion...
...majority opinion. But subjective mass sentiment has progressed too far when it is permitted to so carelessly meddle with the documents on which state and federal government are founded. Given that constitutions are meant to push back against fickle and sometimes bigoted democratic movements, states should protect their own order, and all their citizens, by insisting upon a super-majority threshhold when amendments are at hand. While this may be understood as a limitation placed on individual will, such a barrier would ultimately protect a state’s entire population from reckless legal dynamism...
...preeminent sociology professor from the University of Munich spoke to a packed audience in the Tsai Auditorium last night on the potential of contemporary global risks—such as climate change—to drive a new world order...
...philosophy involves altering the social context in which people make decisions in order to guide them to choose more beneficial outcomes subconsciously...