Design for high-temperature /1800 deg F/ liquid metal pressure transducer

Thermionic diode sensor is used as a pressure transducer in advanced space power systems using liquid metals as working and heat transfer media at temperatures up to 1800 deg F. The sensor converts the motion of a pressure actuated refractory alloy capsule into a suitable electrical output

Book Review: The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy. by John Agresto.

Book review: The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy. By John Agresto. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 1984. Pp. 167. Reviewed by: David E. Engdahl

The Basis of the Spending Power

This Article undertakes to demonstrate, however, that Congress\u27 power to spend does not derive from that so-called General Welfare Clause, but instead derives from two overlapping but independent provisions found elsewhere in the Constitution. First, spending for carrying into Execution any enumerated power is authorized by the familiar Necessary and Proper Clause.2 Second, Article IV gives Congress Power to dispose of ... Property belonging to the United States, one species of such property being money in the Treasury. This Property Clause is ample to authorize all federal spending, whether or not it is also authorized by the Necessary and Proper Clause

Foundations for Military Intervention in the United States

Notwithstanding the statements from the judiciary, within little more than a decade the executive branch of the United States government consolidated the old, and added several new, foundations for military intervention in the United States. It would be idle for a legal scholar to speculate whether any edifice of oppression is likely to be built upon these foundations, whether soon or later in time. A sufficient task for the legal scholar is to disclose that the foundations, although faulty, indeed are there; to explain how those foundations came to be laid; and, to show that they have no footing on the bedrock of our law

Casebooks and Constitutional Competency

Today\u27s casebooks are far better adapted for fostering constitutional competency among lawyers than were their earlier counterparts. Part 1 of this Article traces the evolution of the constitutional law casebook from James Bradley Thayer\u27s massive compilation of raw data in the Dean Langdell tradition, to the modern style of extensively edited cases with comments and questions to help students identify, anticipate, and assess potential avenues of analysis and development. Part 2 examines some basic concepts of federalism law still afforded too little attention by casebook editors. The classic analysis of enumerated powers (including Congress\u27s power under the necessary and proper clause) was eclipsed a century ago by the rise of the misconceptions now commonly generalized as dual federalism. Justice Stone led a revival of the classic approach beginning in 1937, but just as its operation under modern conditions was beginning to be made clear, Justice Black set a contrary course which led to federalism issues being treated for decades less as issues of law than as political questions. Part 3 details those developments, and Part 4 then discusses the challenge and opportunity facing casebooks now that federalism has attracted renewed judicial interest and constitutional opinion teeters between refining the viable, classic constitutional analysis of federal legislative power, and falling back on the old, discredited dual federalism idea