Author: David Schmidt
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keywords: lawmakers, citizen
Number of Pages: 439
Published: 1991-06-29
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0877229031
ISBN-13: 9780877229032

Presents the stories of the individual activists and political groups that revitalized this use of Initiative and Referendum.

Author: Marc Lange
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: laws, nature, metaphysics, science, lawmakers
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2009-07-09
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0195328132
ISBN-13: 9780195328134

Laws of nature have long puzzled philosophers. What distinguishes laws from facts about the world that do not rise to the level of laws? How can laws be contingent and nevertheless necessary? In this brief, accessible study, Lange offers provocative and original answers to these questions. He argues that laws are distinguished by their necessity, which is grounded in primitive subjunctive facts (expressed by counterfactual conditionals). While recognizing that natural necessity is distinct from logical, metaphysical, and mathematical necessity, Lange explains how natural necessity constitutes