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The Unbounded League: Barriers to Stability in College Football Realignment and the Conditions Under Which a Durable Alignment Could Emerge: A White Paper

Posted on July 23, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary College football’s realignment cycle is routinely described as chaos, drama, or madness — language that treats instability as a pathology afflicting an otherwise sound structure. This paper argues the opposite. Realignment is not a disorder of the system; … Continue reading →

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The Exempt Case: Royal Children, the Sussex Children, and the Emerging Regulation of Monetized and Exposed Childhood

Posted on July 16, 2026 by nathanalbright

The Contribution A body of law is forming around a proposition that would have seemed strange a decade ago: that a child’s image and online presence are not simply the parents’ to dispose of, and that adults who expose or … Continue reading →

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When a Senate Seat Empties: South Carolina’s Vacancy Rules in National Context

Posted on July 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

A White Paper Occasioned by the Death of Senator Lindsey Graham (July 11, 2026) Purpose and Occasion Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died on the night of July 11, 2026, from what his office described as a brief and … Continue reading →

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Constitutional Founding and the Emoluments Quarrel

Posted on July 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract. The constitutional case supplies what the university case could not: a founding documented in enough contemporaneous detail that the gap between the idealized origin and the operational norms can be measured rather than merely alleged. This paper names that … Continue reading →

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The Appointed Times as the Memorial Engine

Posted on July 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract If remembrance is a covenantal duty owed by a whole people across generations, as the preceding paper argued, then the covenant must supply means proportioned to the duty—means that stand outside the individual heart and outreach the individual lifetime. … Continue reading →

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Reaping the Whirlwind: A Typology of Prison Uprisings and the Reckoning That Falls Upon Their Authors

Posted on July 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

On the morning of June 29, 2026, the Bertie-Martin Regional Detention Center in Windsor, North Carolina, briefly ceased to be governed by the people charged with governing it. Three guards and 88 inmates were inside when the takeover began at … Continue reading →

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The Sabbath They Keep and the Sabbath They Broke: Irony, Liability, and Religious Freedom in EEOC v. Hatch Trick, Inc.

Posted on June 17, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary In May 2026 the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued an Austin-area Chick-fil-A franchisee, Hatch Trick, Inc., alleging that the operator fired a manager rather than continue accommodating her seventh-day Sabbath observance. The employee, Laurel Torode, is a … Continue reading →

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The Land’s Unkept Sabbaths: Whether the Periodic Dissolution Is Law or Only Liturgy in Present-Day Bravia

Posted on June 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Porterville Working Paper No. 23 Prof. Heinrich Tschudi, Chair of Law and Covenant Studies, Provincial College of Porterville I. The Question, Which Indicts Its Author In Working Paper No. 22 I built a doctrine that rests upon a load-bearing claim, … Continue reading →

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The Millstone in Pledge: Usury, the Gabelle, and the False Balance as One Offense in Covenant Law

Posted on June 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Porterville Working Paper No. 22 Prof. Heinrich Tschudi, Chair of Law and Covenant Studies, Provincial College of Porterville I. The Invitation and the Claim Hartwell, in Working Paper No. 21, closes by inviting a treatment of what he calls the … Continue reading →

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The Covenant of Salt: Preservation, Carriage, and the Bravian Refusal of the Salt-Entrepôt

Posted on June 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Porterville Working Paper No. 20 Prof. Albrecht Wegmüller, Chair of Public Works and Civil Covenants, Provincial College of Porterville I. The Problem of an Absent Commodity A reader who came to the Dispatches expecting an account of Bravian salt would … Continue reading →

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