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7Introduction. The trial; the right to a lawyer; double jeopardy; the electoral college; the senate; presidential pardon; judicial review; lifetime appointment; campaign finance reform; the right to political leave; the democratized corporation -- The right to a lawyer -- Abolish double jeopardy -- Empower the jury -- The electoral college -- Abolish presidential pardon -- Abolish the Senate -- Limit the power of the Supreme Court -- Abolish lifetime tenure of Supreme Court justices -- Reduce pri…Read more
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50The Rule of Law and Presidential PardonInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 20 (1): 97-105. 2006.The presidential pardon as it currently exists is a violation of the separation of powers, checks and balances, and rule of law. With the exception of impeachment, the pardon power of the president is not subject to judicial review. The court has no rights to deny a pardon even though it may violate many explicit laws and implicit values of the constitution. It seems clear that the current form of the presidential power is a usurpation of the role of the judiciary making the president judge and …Read more
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22Rawls and the Equal Worth of Liberty: The Right to Political LeaveJournal for Peace and Justice Studies 9 (2): 17-29. 1997.
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16Freedom of Speech And Access To Mass MediaInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 4 (1): 51-58. 1988.
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23Ethics, truth and social orderSophia 45 (2): 27-42. 2006.I criticize Rawls’ coherentist methodology and argue using the ideas of Talcott Parsons and Karl Popper that social and political structures flow from and are founded on human nature and arise from human beings seeking to satisfy their needs. For societies to exist and function in an efficient manner, certain ethical and political structures must obtain and that these structures would, in general, be required by the key elements of Rawls’ theory of justice and, as such would provide some of the …Read more
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45Freedom of Speech And Access To Mass MediaInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 4 (1): 51-58. 1988.
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4Ethics and Political TheoryUpa. 1999.In Ethics and Political Theory, Joseph Grcic explores the ways in which the ideas of John Rawls can be implemented to realize the ideals of liberal democracy. Many of the essays evaluate Rawls' discussion of the relationship between liberal democratic equality and economic liberty. Grcic argues that Rawls has not fully considered how differences in income and wealth restrict political equality in Western capitalist democracies. However, Grcic contends that a practical extension of Rawls' theory …Read more
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