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Inherent Rights, the Written Constitution, and Popular Sovereignty

The Founders' Understanding

By: Thomas B. McAffee

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Inherent Rights, the Written Constitution, and Popular Sovereignty

The Founders' Understanding

By: Thomas B. McAffee

In recent decades the Ninth Amendment, a provision designed to clarify that the federal government was to be one of enumerated and limited powers, has been turned into an unenumerated rights clause that effectively grants unlimited power to the judiciary. Was this the intent of the framers of the Constitution? McAffee argues that the founders had a rather different set of priorities than ours, and that the goal of enforcing fundamental human rights was not why they drafted any of the first ten amendments. They did not intend to grant to the courts the power to generate fundamental rights, whether by reference to custom or history, reason or natural law, or societal values or consensus. It has become increasingly popular to identify our constitutional order as an experiment in the protection of fundamental human rights and to forget that it is also an experiment in self-government. As fundamental as the founding generation believed basic rights to be, they saw popular authority to make decisions about government as being even more central to the project in which they were engaged. They supported natural law and rights, but they felt strongly that those rights did not bind the people or their government unless they were inserted in the written Constitution. They did not contemplate that there would be unwritten limitations on the powers granted to government.

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0313001103

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Powers Reserved for the People and the States

A History of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments

By: Jay S. Bybee,A. Christo Bryant,Thomas B. McAffee

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A History of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments

By: Jay S. Bybee,A. Christo Bryant,Thomas B. McAffee

American judges and legal scholars have long misunderstood the intended meaning of the Ninth Amendment and its relationship to the Tenth. Because of misinterpretation, the Ninth and Tenth Amendments have not been used to fulfill their original purposes. The limited and unlimited powers of the federal government have been shaped greatly by that error. In this book the authors clarify the actual meaning of the Ninth Amendment and its connection to the Tenth Amendment in order to provide a clear understanding of the full potential of the two amendments. Historical and contemporary details are included to provide an appreciation of the intended purpose of the amendments.

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1567509800

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Telerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control

By: Thomas B. Sheridan

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Telerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control

By: Thomas B. Sheridan

For the past three decades, the author and his colleagues in the MIT Man-Machine Systems Laboratory have been carrying out experimental research in the area of teleoperation, telerobotics, and supervisory control - a new form of technology that allows humans to work through machines in hazardous environments and control complex systems such as aircraft and nuclear power plants. This timely reference brings together a variety of theories and technologies that have emerged in a number of fields of application, describing common themes, presenting experiments and hardware embodiments as examples, and discussing the advantages and the drawbacks of this new form of human-machine interaction. There are many places - such as outer space, the oceans, and nuclear, biologically, and chemically toxic environments - that are; inaccessible or hazardous to humans but in which work needs to be done. Telerobotics - remote supervision by human operators of robotic or semi-automatic devices - is a way to enter these difficult environments. Yet it raises a host of problems, such as the retrieval of sensory information for the human operator and how to control the remote devices with sufficient dexterity. In its complete coverage of the theoretical and technological aspects of telerobotics and human-computer cooperation in the control of complex systems, this book moves beyond the simplistic notion of humans versus automation to provide the necessary background for exploring a new and informed cooperative relationship, between humans and machines.

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0262193167

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Inherent Rights, the Written Constitution, and Popular Sovereignty

The Founders' Understanding

By: Thomas B. McAffee

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The Founders' Understanding

By: Thomas B. McAffee

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Inherent Rights, the Written Constitution, and Popular Sovereignty

Inherent Rights, the Written Constitution, and Popular Sovereignty

Powers Reserved for the People and the States

Powers Reserved for the People and the States

Telerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control

Telerobotics, Automation, and Human Supervisory Control

Inherent Rights, the Written Constitution, and Popular Sovereignty

Inherent Rights, the Written Constitution, and Popular Sovereignty

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