Robert Craig: The constitutional implications of legislating to exonerate the Post Office sub-postmasters

16 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of crime, law and economics Tags: ,

Some commentators have claimed that the decision to expedite the process of formally exonerating the sub-postmasters potentially runs afoul of certain core constitutional principles, in particular the separation of powers. It has also been claimed that the ‘crown does not have a prerogative of justice but only a prerogative of mercy’. This blog considers and challenges those claims. Technically, […]

Robert Craig: The constitutional implications of legislating to exonerate the Post Office sub-postmasters

DON BRASH: WHY THE MAORI ELECTORATES MUST GO

14 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, politics - New Zealand Tags: ,

One of the strange omissions from the coalition agreements which marked the establishment of the new Government was any reference to the Maori electorates.   Perhaps in one sense the omission was not strange: there had been little or no discussion about those electorates during the election campaign, either by those parties which might have…

DON BRASH: WHY THE MAORI ELECTORATES MUST GO

“A Sad Day”: How the Colorado Disqualification Case is Bringing Back Bad Memories for the Supreme Court

04 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in law and economics, politics - USA Tags: ,

Below is my column in The Messenger on the challenge facing the Supreme Court in the coming week over the electoral disqualification of former president Donald Trump in Colorado and Maine. The appeal in Maine has been filed and can now work its way up to the Court. Colorado is expected to file with the…

“A Sad Day”: How the Colorado Disqualification Case is Bringing Back Bad Memories for the Supreme Court

Israeli Supreme Court strikes down “reasonableness” Basic Law

02 Jan 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in law and economics Tags: ,

This is true “wow” moment to start the new Gregorian year. The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled, on an 8-7 vote, to strike down the first installment of the government’s controversial judicial overhaul. In what now seems like ages ago, but was only July, the Knesset had passed an amendment to the Basic Law: Judiciary […]

Israeli Supreme Court strikes down “reasonableness” Basic Law

Dr Lawrie Knight: Fact Checking Waitangi Tribunal Finding

16 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in constitutional political economy, economic history, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights, Public Choice Tags:

Evidence that Northern ,Māori ,knew they were ceding sovereignty to the Crown when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi – fact checking the Waitangi Tribunal 2014 findings and the 2023 findings released on the 8th of December 2023.   The Waitangi Tribunal has stated in its 2014 inquiry into Te Paparahi o Te Raki, that the…

Dr Lawrie Knight: Fact Checking Waitangi Tribunal Finding

CHRIS TROTTER: Contested ground

12 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, economic history, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: , , , ,

LAST WEEK The Waitangi Tribunal released Tino Rangatiratanga me te Kāwanatanga: The Report on Stage 2 of the Te Paparahi o Te Raki Inquiry (Wai 1040). For the sake of brevity, I shall refer to this spawling document as the Northland Report. Sadly, the Report seems destined to make the already fraught relationship between Māori…

CHRIS TROTTER: Contested ground

MICHAEL BASSETT: MODERN MAORI MYTHS

06 Dec 2023 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: , , , ,

Many of the comments about the Coalition’s determination to wind back the dramatic Maorification of New Zealand of the last three years would have you believe the new government is engaged in a full-scale attack on Maori. In reality, all that is really happening is that ministers are stopping the crusade waged by the Ardern/Hipkins…

MICHAEL BASSETT: MODERN MAORI MYTHS

The Italian Government seeks a new constitutional reform

05 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in constitutional political economy Tags: ,

The following is a guest planting about the Italian government’s constitutional reform proposal by Gianluca Passarelli, and it addresses various questions that we had in previous discussions of this topic (1, 2). After the attempt made in 2016 when the parliament approved a reform promoted by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (Democratic Party, centre-left) but that […]

The Italian Government seeks a new constitutional reform

CLIVE BOONHAM: Should Te Pati Maori MPs be allowed to swear the oath of allegiance?

04 Dec 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - New Zealand Tags:

This article is a continuation of the article Swearing in of new MPs: The constitution versus the Treaty activists. __________________________ On 1 December 2023 Te Pati Maori published an official press release on its Facebook page entitled An Oath to our Mokopuna. It was published in the name of Hana Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke and five others,…

CLIVE BOONHAM: Should Te Pati Maori MPs be allowed to swear the oath of allegiance?

Look who wants to debate Treaty issues now

22 Nov 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in constitutional political economy, politics - New Zealand Tags:

Seymour’s proposed referendum has made discussion seem a very attractive alternative. Graham Adams writes — After the revolutionary He Puapua report was brought to public attention for the first time in April 2021, Judith Collins and David Seymour did their best to spark discussion about its implications — especially with regard to the threat that […]

Look who wants to debate Treaty issues now

How to expel an MP from Parliament: The ejection of John Wilkes in 1764

15 Jan 2023 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in constitutional political economy, economic history, Public Choice Tags: , ,

John Wilkes is one of the more scandalous figures in the 18th-century. His publication of North Briton Number 45, and Essay on Woman, had both the Commons and the Lords denounce him. Parliament began to build a case against Wilkes. Dr Robin Eagles, editor of our House of Lords 1715-1790 project, reflects on how Parliament […]

How to expel an MP from Parliament: The ejection of John Wilkes in 1764

Walking the Line: When & How Should Courts Override Legislatures – Richard A. Epstein

21 Oct 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in law and economics, Richard Epstein Tags:

Opinion: Abortion law: Roe vs Wade and the US constitution | FT

24 Jul 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: ,

Justice Thomas on the courts

26 Jun 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of crime, law and economics, liberalism, politics - USA Tags:

From https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/539/558/#tab-opinion-1961305

Scalia and Thomas on a federal abortion ban

13 May 2022 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, gender, law and economics Tags: , ,

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