Hornbooks

2003-11-04 Thread John Nagle
I did it once, and it was the single biggest mistake I've made in ten years of teaching. My two experiences with a hornbook as the primary reading material in class -- one as a student, one as a professor -- were both unequivocal disasters. At 11:48 AM 11/4/2003 -0800, you wrote: I am thinking

Re: WELFARE, FOREST FIRES, AND THE CONSTITUTION

2003-10-31 Thread John Nagle
The balancing of disaster relief with federal land mismanagement has a certain theoretical appeal, but it makes two presumptions that are rather heroic. First, it posits that we can identify mismanagement which is the proximate cause of the costs of the disasters. Mismanagement is notoriously

Re: Lopez and as applied considerations of congressional power

2003-07-30 Thread John Nagle
But that is circular. The only reason why cumulative facial analysis protects congressional power from too much judicial intrusion is because few statutes are held facially unconstitutional, and few statutes are held facially unconstitutional because their effects are aggregated. If more

Re: Government Speech and Special Assessments

2003-07-28 Thread John Nagle
I am curious about Howard's proposed distinction. Candidate elections are about the public policy that will prevail in the community, too. And the dangers of elected officials using public funds to entrench their position could easily be matched by non-elected officials doing the same thing. By