The Maori Case by Andrew Sharp Liberal writers share the intuition that the fundamental moral particle is the human individual, not the group. I attempt to work out the doctrine which results from that intuition and call it 'group foundationalism'. The problem raised is how far it is possible for a group which claims precedence over its members to be coherently self-defined, and to enjoy stable relations with other groups, including states, from which it may seek reparations for past wrongs, while sharing no common authority with them. This essay presents a construct of constitutionalism. This is to do with more than a 'constitution', or a 'corporate organisation', or 'majority rule'.
Constitutionalism underscores a procedure of non-exclusion, public rationality, and transparency.
It is assumed to supply the most suitable philosophical and legal framework for most 'multiculturalist' theses. The essay extracts from British constitutional practice what it locates as the 'despatch-box' regime, and argues for this as a key principle in the management of all constitutionalist entities, including the European Union. Murray Bookchin and the Domination of Nature by Giorel Curran Bookchin's social ecology explores the narrative of domination and hierarchy. He argues that today's environmental crisis reflects a link between the human domination of nature and the domination of human by human. Bookchin, seeking to replace hierarchy with cooperation by devolving power and autonomy to the individual in community, produces an eco-anarchism.