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Welcome to rawls.org, authored by Alec Rawls. I established this site to promote my run for Sheriff of Santa Clara County in the June '98 primary elections and to make available my writings on many subjects, most importantly my magnum opus Moral Science.
Republicanism violated: only members of the incumbent regime are allowed to run for sheriff. They aren't allowing us throw the bums out! In March '98 I sued the State of California for ballot access in the Sheriff's race. The Sheriff's association, the biggest spending lobby in the state, has succeeded in paying the legislature to ban their electoral competition. Only current and recent members of law enforcement are allowed to run for leadership of law enforcement. This is an unprecedented assault on the accountability of government to The People. For the first time in our nation's history members of the government itself have been granted exclusive privilege in the electoral process. While Supreme Court precedent requires that election laws be designed to facilitate accurate representation of the will of The People, this law is designed to limit the views that The People are allowed to express, and in the most audacious fashion: NO CIVILIAN VIEWPOINTS ALLOWED! My suit against this unconstitutional usurpation of the democratic process for the very important office of sheriff has led to a key discovery--the actual meaning of the Constitution's Article IV Section 4 guarantee to the states that they shall have "a republican form of government"--and how it is indeed justiciable according to the letter of existing Supreme Court precedent, despite the Court's own summary statements to the contrary. The Court's actual bases for ruling earlier cases nonjusticiable admit of crucial exceptions which have simply not been represented in any case the court has ever heard. This would have changed if I could have gotten the Court to hear my case, the first properly justiciable guarantee clause case ever brought. They failed to pay attention, but my briefs lay out the roadmap for a later suit to end the gurantee clause's present state of duessitude. To see my campaign materials and the pleadings from my suit, click on Rawls for Sheriff. Brief introductions to my other volumes follow the button menu below.

Rawls for Sheriff	Moral Science	Mr. Knowitall	Draco is Antæus	Alec on Following	Love Poems
Inventions	Checklist/Contents	Rate this Page	Submit Reply		Stories that Need to be Told

Moral Science Combining the economic theory of means with a theory of ends based on John Stuart Mill's distinction between higher and lower ends yields a complete analysis of value, from ends to means, with which numerous questions of policy and law can be answered.

Mr. Knowitall Mr. Knowitall is my alter-ego from a topical student publication at Stanford which I co-edit called The Thinker. Since I end up writing on most of the different topics I decided to make a schtick out of it. If I know so much, I'll just pretend to know everything! To see Mr. Knowitall at his blatant best, read, for instance, Woman and Superwoman. I have been writing and editing for The Thinker since '1996. My relationship with The Stanford Review, where many of the articles in the different volumes on this web page were originally published, goes back a couple of years further. Visit either of these publications by clicking their names here.

Stories that Need to be Told I have done a lot of soul searching over whether to tell these stories. You will see why in the end I have no choice. They need to be told.

Draco is Antæus Also available or your reading pleasure is a solid second draft of my play Draco is Antæus, the story of a clash of titans in 7th century B. C.. Draco is the Sheriff to end all Sheriffs. Remember where the word draconian comes from? Draco punished every crime with death. Antæus must teach him how this violates the requirements of moral reason. Draco learns, and comes back with the ultimate scheme for eliminating crime.

Alec on Following Since recovering from a knee injury six years ago I have switched from basketball as my main recreation to ballroom dance (a generic term for all the partner dances, smooth, latin and club). Ladies, you can learn by doing. The man controls your shoulders, you keep your hips with your shoulders, and that gives the man control of your feet, both for timing (rhythm) and placement. If the man can lead then you can dance the first time without knowing anything. Still, it helps to know what you are trying to learn, and the subtleties (at an introductory level) run to twenty pages. Click Alec on Following for a primer. Men, once the ladies start going dancing, you'll put in the effort to learn to lead, right? (You have to learn your steps, her steps, and how to lead her steps.) Well, go check out the dance-floors. The girls are already going! So learn.

Love Poems For all the romantic fools out there.

Contact Information To contact me, click the Submit Reply button that is available at the bottom of most pages. Sincerely, Alec Rawls 8/27/99  Copyright and all other intellectual property rights to the entire content of this website are asserted by Alec Rawls 1999. To inquire about copyright permission, click Submit Reply.

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