This edited collection further expands our knowledge about what comprises a successful constitution in both theory and application. Building on the research and analysis of Vincent Ostrom, who as one of America's leading scholars on constitutions has spent a lifetime writing about constitutions in America and overseas.Each essay shows how particular countries, governments, and organizations devise constitutions to reflect their visions of governance and sets of rules for their lead...

Roots of the Republic shows how the Constitution was a product, not simply of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, but of a legal and philosophical tradition almost two centuries old. The editors have selected eighteen key documents in the development of that tradition and reproduced them with essays that explain what they mean, why they were written, and why they are important today. Each key document is accompanied by an interpretive essay written by a contemporary scholar. These essay...

Donald Lutz begins A Preface to American Political Theory by explaining what the book doesn’t do.It doesn’t begin with a panegyric to the American founding. It doesn’t answer the following questions: “What are the basic principles in the U.S. Constitution? What were the intentions of the founders with respect to (fill in your own topic)? What is the meaning of pluralism, or separation of powers, or democracy, or (fill in your own concept)?” In short, it doesn’t provide an ...

This collection of essays, offered in honor of the distinguished career of prominent political philosophy professor Clifford Orwin, provides a wide context in which to consider the rise of “humanity” as one of the chief modern virtues. A relative of—and also a replacement for—formerly more prominent other-regarding virtues like justice and generosity, humanity and later compassion become the true north of the modern moral compass. Contributors to this volume consider various aspects of thi...

This book presents the theory of asymptotic integration for both linear differential and difference equations. This type of asymptotic analysis is based on some fundamental principles by Norman Levinson. While he applied them to a special class of differential equations, subsequent work has shown that the same principles lead to asymptotic results for much wider classes of differential and also difference equations.After discussing asymptotic integration in a unified approach, this...

Um sich im voll und ganz auf die organisatorischen Arbeiten zum Glöcknerwettbewerb in ihrem englischen Wohnort Gutt's Hill konzentrieren zu können, hat die Pensionärin Mimi Rutherfurt für diese Zeit eine Gärtnerin eingestellt. Doch kurz nach Beginn der Proben der Kunst des Wechselläutens, wird die Gärtnerin tot aufgefunden. Mimi lässt sich wieder auf eigene Ermittlungen ein. Aber durch die täglichen Proben des Glöcknerteams der evangelischen und der katholischen Kirche des Dörfchens sind d...