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  • BTW Enjoy bowing to your fuhrer prinzip when you are forced to work in a factory job for authoritarian dirt wages.

    Think Progress » Brown victory party featured flag calling for a ‘second’ revolution, tea party-inspired civil war. 2010

  • I do not subscribe to the Führer-prinzip, not in the Conservatives nor with the Liberals.

    A New Conservative Party? « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

  • What we have is a dominant party (it is a misnomer to describe the Republicans in the Senate as the "majority" inasmuch as Democratic candidates over the past three elections cycles have received 3,000,000 more votes than their Republican counterparts; the "majority" is an artifact of our indefensiblly apportioned Senate) that operates by the American equivalent of the fuhrer-prinzip, and an "opposition party" that has no discernible backbone, as Mark Graber notes.

    Balkinization 2006

  • I do believe that it is unhelpful to offer the "fuhrer-prinzip" as particularly relevant to our current situation, for two quite different reasons: As someone who spent much of the 1960s arguing against the relevance of the "Munich analogy," one should be very careful about presenting historical analogies.

    Balkinization 2006

  • I have been taken for gentle reproach by someone I like and admire enormously, Ken Anderson, for some of my use of recent language, particularly "banana republic" and "fuhrer-prinzip."

    Balkinization 2006

  • E. Schrödinger, “Zum Heisenbergschen Unschärfe - prinzip,” Berliner Sitzungsberichte (1930), pp. 296-303; idem, Uber Indeterminismus in der Physik — 2 Vortäge

    INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 1968

  • The mathematical fundaments of the special theory of relativity are to be found in the original papers of H.A. Lorentz, A. Einstein, H. Minkowski published under the title Das Relativitäts-prinzip (The Principle of Relativity) in B.G. Teubner’s collection of monographs Fortschritte der mathematischen Wissenschaften (Advances in the Mathematical Sciences), also in M. Laue’s exhaustive book Das Relativitäts prinzip—published by Friedr.

    Preface 1920

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