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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1972 was awarded jointly to Gerald M. Edelman and Rodney R. Porter "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies".
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Gerald Maurice Edelman and Rodney Robert Porter for their...
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In a comprehensive study Professor Edelman examines the three democratic paradigms most prevalent in America today: natural rights, contract, and competition. Theories based on these paradigms lead to different ideas of democracy, each of which yields variant interpretations of the Constitution.
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The Constitution consists of a preamble and seven articles. The first three articles divide the national government into three branches—Congress, the executive branch, and the federal judiciary—and describe the powers and responsibilities of each. In Article I, ten sections describe the structure of Congress, the basis for representation ...
How did the Constitution come to be written? What compromises were needed to ensure the ratification that made it into law? This chapter addresses these questions and also describes why the Constitution remains a living, changing document.
Edelman is more concerned with the development of political thought in the United States, particularly since 1937, than with the ideological origins of the Constitution itself. Because he uses the Constitution as a vehicle for his exegesis of democratic theory, his failure to address the question of original intent tacitly approves of
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are documents that provide the ideological foundations for the democratic government of the United States.; The Declaration of Independence provides a foundation for the concept of popular sovereignty, the idea that the government exists to serve the people, who elect representatives to express their will.