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This thesis examines the abilities of constitutional mini-publics to make legitimate constitutions. Legitimacy in this thesis is defined as following the ideal of public reason. It is a quantitative study of the third weekend of the Irish Convention on the Constitution (a constitutional mini-public). They deliberated on and recommended amending the Constitution to allow same-sex marriage. Previous research into the legitimacy of constitutional mini-publics has been limited to studying their form, for example, participant selection or decision-making process. This thesis analyses the content of the deliberation. A series of theme analyses were performed to discover the reasons used. The reasons were categorised as public or nonpublic. The Convention on the Constitution justified all their decisions with public reasons. Showing constitutional mini-publics can make legitimate constitutions based on the ideal of public reason under the right circumstances.

The paper examines Othello as metapoetry. Throughout the play, key points of comparison between Iago and Shakespeare's methodologies for employing allegory, symbolism, and mimetic plot and character construction shed light upon Shakespeare's self-reflexive use of poetry as an art of imitation. More specifically, the contrast between Shakespeare and Iago's poetry delineates between dynamic and reductive uses of allegory, emphasizes an Aristotelian model of mimesis that makes reason integral to plot and character formation, and underscores an ethical function to poetry generally. In consequence of the division between Iago and Shakespeare as unethical and ethical poets respectively, critical contention concerning the play's representation of race and gender receive commentary. While Iago authors reductive narratives that lead to stereotypes, Shakespeare's narrative critiques and condemns the works of his villain to argue against common opinion and customs which deny justice by replacing individuality with generalizations about groups of people. Moreover, as he demonstrates Iago's conscious, manipulative creation of such reductive narratives for his own purposes, Shakespeare draws attention to the construction of narratives both within and without poetry, and, in so doing, he defends poetry against the Puritan condemnations from his day by showing that these condemnations cannot be restricted to poetry alone. Ultimately, reading the play as metapoetry offers a perspective on Iago's characterization which blurs the typical classifications made by modern critics, challenges the notion of a reason/ imagination dichotomy wherein reason stands outside of or even in opposition to poetic imagination, and exposes the shortcoming of the critical view that Iago represents reason and the play Shakespeare's own concerns about its limitations.

[pt] Bala perdida, falas perdidas: o discurso do jornalismo impresso sobre a morte de Gabriela Prado analisa a constituição de um imaginário urbano da bala perdida, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. O estudo se desenvolve a partir da leitura das matérias jornalísticas sobre a morte, por bala perdida, de uma adolescente de classe média, em 2003. O objetivo é mostrar como a casualidade que preside este tipo de crime torna problemático o discurso que se constrói sobre o fato. Discutese o esforço da imprensa para contornar a gratuidade da morte, reconstruindo a biografia da vítima de modo a estabelecer um elo causal que possa, se não justificar, pelo menos explicar o assassinato. Ameaçados pela possibilidade de uma morte semelhante, jornalistas e leitores tentam enquadrar narrativamente a bala perdida que, no entanto, desafia qualquer fechamento que lhe confira um sentido. / [en] Stray bullet, strayed speeches: the death of Gabriela Prado on the discourses produced by journalism intends to analyze the idea of the stray bullet on the urban/social imaginary in the city of Rio de Janeiro. This paper begins reading the published press reports about the death - by stray bullet - of a female middle-class teenager in 2003. The aim of this work is to point out how the idea of chance or unexpected destiny makes the discourse about the facts so problematic. This work discuss the way how the Brazilian press tries to get around this gratuitous sort of death, rebuilding the victim´s biography in order to try to find a causal link that explains the murder. Threatened with the possibility of dying in the same way, journalists and audience seem to delimit the stray bullet in some types of narratives - although, it is a challenge to find any meaning for that.