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| | Common good - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Common goods should not be confused with another subtype of public goods: the collective goods (also known as social goods), which are defined as goods that could be delivered as private goods, but are delivered instead by the government for various reasons (usually social policy). | | | public good: national security (army and police forces) | | | collective good (social good) - private good - common good - common-pool resource- club good - public good - global public good - Accounting good |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_good
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| | Education Policy Analysis Archives: Vol. 2 No. 11 Covaleskie "On Education and the Common Good" |
| | The proper balance between public and private interest may be right where it is: I can send my child to a Stanley Kaplan Center if I wish to pay for it, but public funds will not fund it. | | | And the public policy question here may not be how to maximize the good obtainable for children whose parents are good choosers; rather the best policy may be one that aims to minimize the harm to the children whose parents are not good choosers. | | | The schools in this society are public for quite a different reason: education is also a social and common good, and therefore it is properly funded by the polity. |
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http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v2n11.html
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| | Harvard School of Public Health and Common Good to Develop New Medical Injury Compensation System, press release of Monday, January 10, 2005, Harvard School of Public Health |
| | Boston, MA--Harvard School of Public Health and Common Good, the nations bipartisan legal reform coalition, have been awarded a $1.5 million grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to design a prototype for a new medical injury compensation system including specialized administrative courts. | | | The RWJF grant will now make it possible for Common Good and faculty from Harvard School of Public Healths Department of Health Policy and Management to perform further research and consensus-building work needed for demonstration projects of such courts to take place. | | | The concept of specialized health courts has been advanced by Common Good over the last two years in a series of forums held with The Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute, building on research by the Harvard School of Public Health suggesting the feasibility and advantages for patient safety of such an approach. |
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http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/press/releases/press001102005A.html.html
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| | The Common Good and Catholic Social Teaching |
| | Furthermore, public confidence is undermined, and democracy subverted, when the members of public authorities responsible for the common good are not appointed democratically or on objective merit but in order to ensure that the authority in question has a political complexion favourable to the government of the day. | | | But more recent social teaching has seen the common good as a guarantor of individual rights, and as the necessary public context in which conflicts of individual rights and interests can be adjudicated or reconciled. | | | If democracy is not to become a democratic tyranny in which the majority oppresses the minority, it is necessary for the public to have an understanding of the common good and the concepts that underlie it. |
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http://www.osjspm.org/cst/britbish.htm
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| | Fall 1992 Opinion |
| | In general our standard for determining whether a public official acted in 'good faith' for the purposes of indemnification for attorneys' fees and personal judgments is identical to the federal standard for determining whether a public official is entitled to 'good faith' immunity in a federal civil rights suit. | | | Obviously, a public official who ignores or violates such clearly established precepts of the law, as did the mayor in Hawkins, supra, would not be entitled to qualified immunity under Harlow and would be personally liable for his or her nonperformance or misperformance of such acts. | | | To recast the Harlow test, a public official may be found personally liable for his or her official acts if it is shown that the official, in the exercise of discretionary powers, has injured a party through the violation of clearly established statutory or constitutional rights of which a reasonable person would have known. |
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http://www.state.wv.us/wvsca/docs/fall92/20863.htm
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| | Public inquiry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Inquiries are requested not only for the genuine public good, but also in attempt to make the Government look bad - either by allowing the inquiry to go ahead and uncover mistakes by the Government or by making the Government refuse and leave the impression that they have something to hide. | | | Interested members of the public and organisations may not only make (written) evidential submissions as is the case with most inquiries, but also listen to oral evidence given by other parties. | | | The terms of reference of the inquiry are given as part of that warrant. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_inquiry
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| | Reconstructing the Public Domain |
| | We are beginning to realize that the public domain must be understood as an entity having both legal warrant to exist and the ability to grant jurisdiction over its contents to some kind of protective trust dedicated to serving and protecting the public good. | | | When in the late nineteenth century the terms "public property" and "common property" came to be replaced by the phrase "public domain," the door was opened to manipulating the meaning of the distinctions between being copyrightable or not, or between being in copyright or out of it. | | | Both the state of copyright and the state of being in the public domain must be understood as bearing the weight of both balanced and balanceable elements of a rights system that must be recognized as a necessary and mutual dependency – a symbiotic brotherhood, as it were. |
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http://www.studiolo.org/IP/VRA-TM-StLouis-PublicDomain.htm
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| | U.S. Catholic Bishops - Catechism of the Catholic Church |
| | Regimes whose nature is contrary to the natural law, to the public order, and to the fundamental rights of persons cannot achieve the common good of the nations on which they have been imposed. | | | In the name of the common good, public authorities are bound to respect the fundamental and inalienable rights of the human person. | | | It is the role of the state to defend and promote the common good of civil society, its citizens, and intermediate bodies. |
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http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect1chpt2art2.htm
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| | The Common Good Public License 1.0 BETA |
| | The Common Good Public License seeks to do the opposite by securing an Original Work's wide spread distribution, modification, and use by as many people as possible. | | | Because of any confusion that might be caused due to the similarity between the acronym GGPL and the acronym of other well known licenses, The Greater Good Public License has now been renamed to The Common Good Public License or CGPL (and also it is just a plain better name). | | | It is our hope to bring together these three positive elements for the common good and help create a sustainable future of communication and technological development. |
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http://www.cgpl.org
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| | Public Defender Dude |
| | The cruel irony is that the co-defendant fired his public defender, someone who had once trained me and was a pretty good lawyer, in order to get this lawyer, who was the worst lawyer I have ever seen in trial. | | | This is the cruel irony, the more you know about the inside of the system, the less likely you are to be able to afford a really good lawyer. | | | The study didn't specifically look to see who did a better job, but in general, the only glaring error that they discussed by a public defender was when a PD didn't investigate some witnesses juvenile criminal backgrounds because she hadn't researched the area of law in question because she was too busy. |
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http://publicdefenderdude.blogspot.com
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| | Good governance - Human Rights in Development - OHCHR |
| | The true test of "good" governance is the degree to which it delivers on the promise of human rights: civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights. | | | They stated that meeting this objective "depends, inter alia, on good governance within each country. | | | Good governance accomplishes this in a manner essentially free of abuse and corruption, and with due regard for the rule of law. |
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http://www.unhchr.ch/development/governance-01.html
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| | Public interest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The public interest is often contrasted with the private or individual interest, under the assumption that what is good for society may not be good for a given individual and vice versa. | | | In law, public interest is a defence against certain lawsuits (for instance some libel suits in the United Kingdom) and an exemption from certain laws or regulations (for instance freedom of information laws in the UK. | | | Also, judges in common law systems can make judgements on the grounds of public policy, a related term. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_interest
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| | The Common Good vs Individualism |
| | Examples of particular common goods or parts of the common good include an accessible and affordable public health care system, an effective system of public safety and security, peace among the nations of the world, a just legal and political system, an unpolluted natural environment, and a flourishing economic system. | | | Douglass, B. "The common good and the public interest." Political Theory, February 1980, 8 (1), pp. | | | Still, appeals to the common good ought not to be dismissed. |
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http://www.scu.edu/SCU/Centers/Ethics/publications/iie/v5n1/common.html
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| | Openspace.org - About Us - Good Neighbor Policy |
| | It is not the intention or purpose of this policy to add any legal notice requirements or to establish procedural requirements which must be met prior to District action, but rather to supplement any public notice or procedure which is required by law. | | | Workshops with preserve neighbors or the general public may also be scheduled to discuss significant changes in land use or planning issues, or items of a controversial nature where public input is desired or required. | | | As appropriate, field staff may be assigned to attend local community meetings, make contact with preserve neighbors on relevant issues, respond to and address neighbors concerns regarding preserve issues, and otherwise be a good neighbor, representing the District in the neighboring community. |
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http://www.openspace.org/about_us/good_neighbor_policy.asp
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| | Promoting Good Governance |
| | Accountability and the rule of law require openness and good information so higher levels of administration, external reviewers and the general public can verify performance and compliance to law. | | | Governments that involve the public, will be in a better position to make good decisions, and decisions will enjoy more support once taken. | | | echnical and managerial competence of civil servants is an obvious factor of good governance. |
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http://www.gdrc.org/u-gov/doc-oecd_ggov.html
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| | OP-ED |
| | In Mexico, for the very first time, the national access to information law has been used to make public the salaries of Federal Government leaders. | | | Information is a public resource in the hands of the government and the challenge is to share it equitably and manage it to the best advantage of the society. | | | In this context then, it is significant that the main thrust of any right to information regime is to change the culture of secrecy and aloofness in government and the bureaucracy by practically promote transparency and public accountability in the working of every government department. |
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http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/sep/28/28092005op.htm
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| | Hoover Essay in Public Policy - Welfare for the Well-Off: How Business Subsidies Fleece Taxpayers |
| | In 1993 there were more than thirty-six hundred product tariffs and quotas imposed by Uncle Sam, all obtained for private advantage under the pretense of public good. | | | Some of the most subsidized recipients of public assistance are not welfare queens housed in public tenement apartments. | | | We hear "welfare" and our minds conjure up a young unwed mother of two or three infants, huddled in front of a TV set in a public housing tenement and living at taxpayer expense on monthly Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) checks and food stamps. |
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http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/publications/epp/88/88b.html
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| | No. 01-0065 |
| | If the circuit court ultimately concludes that the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule is inapplicable, the court must issue a suppression order with respect to the March 15 search. | | | In Eason, the court adopted the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule recognized in United States v. | | | Marquardt challenges the application of the automobile exception on two additional grounds: that the exception applies only to vehicles in public places and that the court should consider the ease with which the officers could have obtained a search warrant. |
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http://www.wisbar.org/res/capp/z2001/01-0065.htm
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| | Catholic social teaching -- on common good |
| | This obligation also falls on individual citizens as they choose their representatives and participate in shaping public opinion. | | | It is also demanded by the common good that civil authorities should make earnest efforts to bring about a situation in which individual citizens can easily exercise their rights and fulfill their duties as well. | | | One of the chief consequences of this is that they must bring their own interests into harmony with the needs of the community, and must contribute their goods and their services as civil authorities have prescribed, in accord with the norms of justice and within the limits of their competence. |
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http://www.osjspm.org/cst/q_cmgood.htm
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| | Cincinnati Bar Association |
| | A notary is a public officer of the state of Ohio, a position created by the state Legislature. | | | Once an attorney applies to be a notary and is officially sworn in, his or her commission is valid for as long as he or she remains in good standing with the Ohio Supreme Court. | | | As stated in Section 147.07 of the Ohio Revised Code, "a notary public may, throughout the state, administer oaths required or authorized by law; take and certify depositions; take and certify acknowledgement of deeds, mortgages, liens, powers of attorney and other instruments of writing; and receive, make and record notarial protests." |
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http://www.cincybar.org/member/notarypublic.asp
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| | SSRN-The Doctrine of Good Faith in Contract Law: A (Nearly) Empty Vessell? by Emily Houh |
| | The Article attempts to assess and evaluate the ways in which courts are currently employing the good faith doctrine in contract disputes, as part of a larger project whose goal is to re-conceive and reinvigorate the private law doctrine of good faith as one that might assist in effecting the public law norm of equality. | | | By examining exemplary good faith decisions in the contexts of "vanilla" commercial contracting, commercial lending, contractor cases, and commercial real estate leasing, Part II argues that contemporary courts employ the good faith doctrine not as a truly implied contractual obligation, but as a rhetorical framework for analyzing underlying issues of what constitutes material breach. | | | Further, it argues that, to the extent courts have applied and/or referenced the economic and/or fairness models of good faith in their decisions, they have rendered the two approaches operationally and functionally indistinguishable by employing both approaches as analytical proxies for material breach. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=622982
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| | Creative Commons Public Domain |
| | Certifier recognizes that his good faith efforts may not shield him from liability if in fact the work certified is not in the public domain. | | | Copyright-Only Dedication (based on United States law) or Public Domain Certification | | | Dedicator recognizes that, once placed in the public domain, the Work may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet been invented or conceived. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
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| | Communique of the Attorney General of the Republic of Venezuela |
| | It is expected that at any moment a new medical examination will be made, as ordered by Public Prosecutor Ildamar Fernandez (an assistant at the office of the Seventh Public Prosecutor of the metropolitan area of Caracas), so that the good state of health of the apprehended citizen can again be ascertained. | | | The Public Prosecutor based the request for preventive judicial deprivation of freedom of citizen Carlos Fernandez on the crimes of civil rebellion, instigation to commit criminal acts, criminal association, treason, and devastation, all of which are punished by the Venezuelan Penal Code. | | | It must be remembered that citizen Carlos Fernandez had testified as a witness on another matter, on January 30, at the Public Prosecutors office, and afterwards informed the media that he had been received summons to testify on the accusations, a summons which he ignored. |
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http://www.embavenez-us.org/news.english/attorneygral_feb20_2003.htm
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| | GOOD GOVERNANCE |
| | This has deprived the elements of brain and intellect from the corpus of the public administrative system. | | | Good governance should have its powers and responsibilities amated and evenly distributed in the fabric of the governance. | | | A passion pure and clear for the welfare and development of the nation and its people by any means is a prerequisite for good governance. |
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http://www.kumar50.blogspot.com
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| | Common Good: Restoring Common Sense to American Law |
| | In a special 20/20 report on the state of America's public schools, ABC's John Stossel will present a chart prepared by Common Good, titled, "How Do I Fire an Inept Teacher." The program, "Stupid in America: How We Are Cheating Our Kids," will air on Friday, January 13th, at 10 pm, ET, on the ABC Television Network. | | | Common Good op-eds regularly appear in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other leading publications. | | | Common Good originally produced the chart in 2004, but has updated it to reflect the recently revised New York City Teachers contract. |
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http://cgood.org
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| | Public Opinion Polling in Canada (BP-371E) |
| | (54) A related argument is that an important aspect of good leadership in government is the ability to create an informed public opinion, instead of simply pandering to it. | | | Although the term "public opinion" is widely used to imply a unanimous viewpoint, it should be pointed out that members of the public hold diverse opinions on any issue and that each issue usually interests only a certain segment of the population. | | | In the United States, the National Council of Public Polls and the American Association of Public Opinion Research have long-established codes and have been considering mechanisms for adjudicating complaints. |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/bp371-e.htm
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| | Glossary of Child Support Terms |
| | Good cause means a public assistance recipient does not have to cooperate with the child support agency because the recipient or child may be in danger of physical or emotional harm if efforts are made either to adjudicate paternity or to establish or enforce support. | | | Publication - Service by publication means printing the summons in a regular issue of a qualified newspaper for the length of time set by law. | | | A support case is nonpublic assistance when no child or children on the case are receiving public assistance. |
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http://www.childsupport.dhs.state.mn.us/Action/Links/Glossary
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| | Ct Kairys2 |
| | Public nuisance is a violation of a public right, either by direct encroachment upon public rights or property, or by doing some act which tends to a common injury, or by omitting to do some act which the common good requires. | | | Public nuisance law is not open-ended or without appropriate limits.[10] | | | Executive-branch officials in over thirty cities and counties--mayors, city attorneys, county commissions, county executives--invoking their public nuisance duties and powers, seek abatement, injunctive relief, and damages against the manufacturers, distributors, and dealers of handguns.[1] This has prompted a range of responses that raise, legally and publicly, basic issues about the law of public nuisance. |
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http://www.saf.org/LawReviews/CtKairys2.htm
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| | Public Nuisance Law Applied to Gang Activity |
| | The law allows district attorneys and city attorneys to ask the courts for orders preventing activity which would be considered a public nuisance. | | | Nevertheless, it is good to see a court willing to apply an old law to a modern situation in order to further its purpose, the preservation of comfortable enjoyment of life or property by a community. | | | Public nuisance laws have been on the books for a long time and have traditionally been used to curtail activities that involve such things as belching smokestacks or noxious fumes. |
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http://www.curtisandarata.com/winart/rsc0133.html
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