Over the next few months chief counsel Erick G. Kaardal will present a series of lectures.  The schedule and location will be available here.  

Lecture 1: U.S. and State Constitutions: Different Approaches to Democracy and Bureacracy

*single versus multiple elected officials

*appointed versus elected judges

*common omissions as to bureaucracies and oversight (large modern bureaucracies were never anticipated) -- gap has been filled by "administrative law" and judicial oversight of bureaucracies

Lecture 2: Mediocre Bureaucracies are common to All Forms of Government

Lecture 3: Democracy is Necessary to Avoid Bureaucratic Mediocrity

Lecture 4: Representative Democracy as A Possible Answer to Mediocre Bureacracy

*J.S. Mill on Representative Government

Lecture 5: America's Separation of Powers -- Foe of Democracy?

Lecture 6: America's Judiciary -- Foe of Democracy?

Lecture 7: Single versus Multiple Elected Executives

Lecture 8: Appointed v. Elected Judiciary

Lecture 9: Reforming legislative oversight of bureaucracies and judiciary

Lecture 10: Should the Minnesota Constitution be re-written to address the problems with mediocre bureaucracies, anti-democratic judiciary and lack of legislative oversight    

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