Re: Can the possibility of dysfunctionality in government betaught to the impressionable young?

2003-10-01 Thread M. Isabel Medina
If indoctrination impairs critical thinking/reasoning skills, would school authorities in fact be entirely within their rights to indoctrinate? I realize there is an aspect to this thought that may not be relevant to the constitution. Isabel Medina Loyola University New Orleans School of Law

Re: Can the possibility of dysfunctionality in government be taught to the impressionable young?

2003-09-30 Thread Sanford Levinson
I am taking the liberty of posting a comment by my daughter Meira, who usually teaches social studies to 8th graders in a Boston public school. With reference to my Findlaw column Levinson: Why I Did Not Sign the Constitution http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20030923_levinson.html I was

Re: Can the possibility of dysfunctionality in government be taught to the impressionable young?

2003-09-30 Thread Eugene Volokh
- From: Sanford Levinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Can the possibility of dysfunctionality in government be taught to the impressionable young? I am taking the liberty of posting a comment by my daughter Meira, who usually

Dysfunctionality in government

2003-09-23 Thread Sanford Levinson
First, some shameless self-promotion: Levinson: Why I Did Not Sign the Constitution http://writ.news.findlaw.com/commentary/20030923_levinson.html This provoked the following from Prof. Tung Yin of the University of Iowa Law School: You note one of the structural deficiencies of the

Re: Dysfunctionality in government

2003-09-23 Thread Gregg Miller
I think I agree with you, but as far as my own signing is concerned, I would probably have been required to have a co-signer. I believe your comment that the recall process is "lunatic" is expecially trenchant today, in that I note that Darrel Issa, the person who bankrolled the signatrure