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History and Democracy

Anthony Tsontakis Tumblr. Election and constitutional law, foreign policy and democracy, and legal and political theory. Twitter: @TsontakisLaw
Sep 5 '12
“[If] we cease having ideals in the field of foreign policy, something very valuable will have gone out of our internal political life.”
— George F. Kennan

Sep 3 '12
“He had a historian’s consciousness of the past, which gave him a visionary’s perspective of the future.”
— John Lewis Gaddis on George F. Kennan

Aug 26 '12
Spotlight on Iran (Week of August 15-22, 2012)
Highlights of the week
  • Iranmarks International Jerusalem Day
  • State institutions may lose public trust over earthquake in western Iran, government critics warn
  • Shi’ite clerics once again disagree on Ramadan end date
  • “Introduction to the overt and covert aspects of spreading homosexuality in the world” – a look from Tehran

Read More: http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20387#

Aug 14 '12
“However modest a man may be, only an idiot can forget himself entirely in pursuing the moon and the stars.”
— Henry Adams

Tags: Henry Adams

Jul 22 '12
ASU Hayden Library entrance. (Taken with Instagram at Hayden Library)

ASU Hayden Library entrance. (Taken with Instagram at Hayden Library)

Jul 22 '12
Textualism in Context by Andrei Marmor

Abstract:     
The main purpose of this essay is to show that the views about linguistic communication that make Textualism a plausible theory of what the law says, show why textualism is not nearly as helpful a theory of statutory interpretation as its proponents claim. The essay begins with a brief outline of what Textualism is, in light of its critique of Intentionalism and Purposivism; it then proceeds to explain the view of language, particularly asserted linguistic content, that is required to make sense of Textualism, and defends this view against a neo-Gricean critique; finally, the paper strives to show why those same ideas about determinants of communicated content help us to see that Textualism has very little to offer by way of a general theory of statutory interpretation.

Read More: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2112384

Tags: Andrei Marmor Legal Theory Textualism Philosophy of Law

Jul 17 '12
“I have not read history without observing that the greatest forces in the world and the only permanent forces are the moral forces.”
— Woodrow Wilson

1 note Tags: Woodrow Wilson American History

Jul 4 '12
“If I understand the life of America, the central principle of it is this, that no small body of persons, no matter how influential, shall be trusted to determine the policy and development of America.”
— Woodrow Wilson, Address at Philadelphia, June 29, 1916

Tags: Woodrow Wilson America

Jul 1 '12
“It is not a new feeling on my part, but one which I entertain with a greater intensity than formerly, that a man who seeks the Presidency of the United States for anything it will bring him is an audacious fool. The responsibilities of the office ought to sober a man even before he approaches it.”
— Woodrow Wilson

1 note Tags: Woodrow Wilson Democracy Statecraft

Jul 1 '12
Sunday reading. (Taken with Instagram)

Sunday reading. (Taken with Instagram)