Category: Neoteric Papers
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Neoteric Papers No. 28 — When Local Choices Burden Their Neighbors
Shemsizedek examines cross-border burdens, proportionate common action, local autonomy, and the limits of delegated power.
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Neoteric Papers No. 27 — Learning Without Making People Expendable
Shemsizedek examines how a union can learn from local experiments while preserving equal standing, bounded authority, honest evidence, and practical correction.
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Neoteric Papers No. 26 — Common Protections, Different Methods
Shemsizedek examines when common standards require uniform practice and when local alternatives can preserve equal standing and accountable protection.
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Neoteric Papers No. 25 — Cooperation Without Vanishing Responsibility
Shemsizedek examines how distinct authorities can share capabilities while keeping decisions, records, complaints, and responsibility intelligible to the public.
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Neoteric Papers No. 24 — A Common Rule for Disputed Boundaries
Shemsizedek examines how overlapping authorities can resolve boundary disputes through authorized decisions while preserving scrutiny and lawful correction.
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Neoteric Papers No. 23 — Resources That Make Self-Government Real
Shemsizedek examines how duties, funding, and conditions can sustain self-government or create hidden dependence, with safeguards for accountable cooperation.
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Neoteric Papers No. 22 — Responsibility Near the People, Authority Equal to the Task
Shemsizedek examines when responsibility should remain local and when wider authority is justified, with attention to capacity, consequences, and minority standing.
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Neoteric Papers No. 21 — Union Through Defined Common Powers
Shemsizedek examines how common institutions can act effectively through defined delegations while preserving meaningful self-government and accountable boundaries.
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Neoteric Papers No. 20 — Evidence That Representation Still Works
Shemsizedek brings the representation arguments together through practical tests of hearing, bounded decisions, review, correction, and renewal.
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Neoteric Papers No. 19 — An Open Door to Representative Service
Shemsizedek examines practical access to representative service, preserving voter choice, competence, and independence while questioning unnecessary barriers.