Obscenity - Liquor Regulations; California v. LaRue

The state has the power to regulate the distribution of liquor and enforce health and safety regulations, but the state may not broadly stifle First Amendment freedoms when doing so. The breath of legislative abridgement must be viewed in the light of less drastic means for achieving the same basic purpose. s The Court has consistently held that only a compelling state interest in the regulation of a subject within the state\u27s constitutional power to regulate can justify limiting First Amendment freedoms

Review of Alexander Nehamas, The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault.

Alexander Nehamas, Review of The Art of Living: Socratic Reflections from Plato to Foucault. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 283 pp. ISBN 0520211731

Quantum Mechanical (Phase Shift) Analysis of Differential Elastic Scattering of Molecular Beams

For a spherically symmetrical intermolecular potential V(r)=ϵf(r/σ) the quantum calculation of the elastic scattering cross section dσ(Θ)/dΩ in the c.m. system is carried out as follows. For a given relative velocity (or deBroglie wavelength) and an assumed V(r), the radial wave equation is integrated for successive values of the angular momentum quantum number l, yielding the phase shifts ηι. Then dσ(Θ)dΩ is computed in terms of the series of ηι's in the standard way. A general computational program (following that of K. Smith) is outlined for the evaluation of the radial wave function and the phase shifts, utilizing an IBM 704 computer. Calculations are presented for the L‐J (12, 6) potential function. The results may be concisely represented using the framework provided by the semiclassical treatment of Ford and Wheeler, i.e., in terms of a set of reduced phase constants vs reduced angular momenta at various reduced relative kinetic energies K. Tables and graphs are presented from which the phases may be obtained, to a good approximation, for any given ϵ, σ and K. Computation of the differential and total cross sections from the phase shifts is then readily accomplished.The results are compared with the classical and semiclassical treatments. The problem of tunneling and orbiting is discussed.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/70444/2/JCPSA6-33-3-795-1.pd

High‐Velocity Molecular Beam Scattering: Total Elastic Cross Sections for L‐J(n, 6) and Exp‐6(α) Potentials

Explicit expressions are derived for the total elastic scattering cross sections in the high‐velocity region for molecules interacting according to L‐J (n, 6) and exp‐6(α) potentials. Cross sections are presented in tabular and graphical form.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/70237/2/JCPSA6-38-2-515-1.pd

The Sleeper Wakes: The History and Legacy of the Twenty-Seventh Amendment

No provision of the United States Constitution has a more drawn-out, tortured history than the Twenty-seventh Amendment, which was ratified more than two centuries after Representative James Madison introduced it in the First Congress. In this Article, Professor Bernstein traces the Amendment\u27s origins to the legislative political culture of the late eighteenth century, as influenced by the controversy over ratifying the Constitution. He then examines the perennial controversies over congressional compensation in American history, elucidating how in the 1980s and 1990s public anger at Congress reached critical mcm sufficient to propel the 1789 compensation amendment into the Constitution. Finally, this Article demonstrates that the adoption of the Amendment has consequences beyond its effects on congressional compensation-both for the unresolved issues of the Article V amending process and for the practice of amendment politics

Review of Jan Assmann, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism and J. Assmann, Of God and Gods

Jan Assmann, Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. 196 pp. (+x) ISBN 9780299225544. Jan Assmann, The Price of Monotheism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. 140 pp. (+8) ISBN 9780804761604