Category: Neoteric Papers
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Neoteric Papers No. 43 — Discretion Within the Delegated Purpose
Shemsizedek examines administrative discretion through lawful assignments, reasoned methods, consistent treatment, minority burdens, and the boundary between implementation and changing a public purpose.
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Neoteric Papers No. 42 — Public Office Without Personal Dependence
Shemsizedek examines appointments through competence, independent judgment, fair review, public reasons, and the risks of favoritism and closed professional circles.
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Neoteric Papers No. 41 — Executive Action With an Answerable Author
Shemsizedek begins the executive-power sequence by examining effective administration, identifiable decisions, independent scrutiny, minority burdens, and lawful correction.
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Neoteric Papers No. 40 — Shared Funds, Visible Responsibility
Shemsizedek concludes the legislative and fiscal sequence by tracing authority, transfers, conditions, commitments, and remedies across shared public programs.
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Neoteric Papers No. 39 — Public Benefit and the Discipline of Choice
Shemsizedek examines public expenditure through lawful authority, competing needs, fair treatment, and accountable review, engaging Brutus, Hamilton, and the Savannah relief debate.
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Neoteric Papers No. 38 — Oversight That Obtains Answers
Shemsizedek argues for legislative oversight that joins answerable questions, usable evidence, fair inquiry, and recorded correction while preserving administrative responsibility.
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Neoteric Papers No. 37 — Technical Standards and Public Judgment
Shemsizedek examines how lawmakers can use technical expertise without surrendering responsibility for public burdens, weighing representation, qualified review, conflicts of interest, evidence from use, and lawful correction.
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Neoteric Papers No. 36 — Common Trade Rules and a Fair Way In
Shemsizedek examines when common commerce rules remove barriers and when their methods exclude smaller participants, weighing shared enforcement, local judgment, specialized knowledge, and accountable limits.
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Neoteric Papers No. 35 — From Public Allocation to Public Delivery
Shemsizedek argues that public accountability must connect authorized spending, actual payments, and delivered results, while preserving administrative judgment, minority protections, fair inquiry, and lawful correction.
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Neoteric Papers No. 34 — Borrowing Without Spending the Future’s Choices
Shemsizedek weighs Brutus’s warning about public borrowing against Hamilton’s defense of good faith and reliable credit, proposing scrutiny of purpose, repayment, risk, and the choices left to future residents.
