Our drift from Thomas Paine: “The word ‘republic’ means the public good, or the good of the whole, in contradistinction to the despotic form, which makes the good of the sovereign, or of one man, the only object of the government.”
Sam J. Merchant
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Law Prof: Con Law, Crim Pro, Sentencing, Habeas at Minnesota Law
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Interesting but it doesn’t capture the reality that Platonists (I think?) actually seek objective truths in good faith. Not sure that maps onto how many judges use originalism…
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I was recently thinking about a piece on AI at sentencing and was pondering a footnote describing my exact use and offering the one or two deep research reports to anyone who asked. AI really hasn’t been that helpful to me other than occasionally identifying a relevant book or article.
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avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...
www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/spee...
Avalon Project - Journals of the Coninental Congress - The Articles of Association; October 20, 1774
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It reminds of the Articles of Association (1774) (which Lincoln credits in his First Inaugural as "forming" the "Union"). Clause 8: "We will . . . encourage frugality, economy, and industry . . and will discountenance and discourage every species of extravagance and dissipation."
no but this is crazy
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“Come make $35k per year, with 80 students per class. Free Bible* included!”
*Trump Bible.
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Honored to be appointed to the U.S. Sentencing Commission‘s Advisory Group on Research and Data Practices. This group combines sentencing scholars with experts from other fields to inform criminal sentencing policies and practices.
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I made an off the cuff comment recently about it being a class on Legal Poli Sci.
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That generation lived through multiple immediate existential threats (wars included) and knew that some basic level of competency was important. We, luxuriously, really haven’t.
