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Author : Gabriel L. Negretto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107026520
Examines constitutional change in Latin America from 1900 to 2008 and provides the first systematic explanation of the origins of constitutional designs.
Author : Vivien Hart
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN :
Author : David Landau
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 1785365266
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of new research on constitution making. Comparative Constitution Making provides an up-to-date overview of this rapidly expanding field. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial}
Author : Axel Hadenius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 1997-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521573115
Leading scholars from a range of disciplines address questions central to the development and survival of democratic rule.
Author : Richard Albert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0190640499
Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions is both a roadmap for navigating the intellectual universe of constitutional amendments and a blueprint for building and improving the rules of constitutional change. Drawing from dozens of constitutions in every region of the world, this book blends theory with practice to answer two all-important questions: what is an amendment and how should constitutional designers structure the procedures of constitutional change? The first matters now more than ever. Reformers are exploiting the rules of constitutional amendment, testing the limits of legal constraint, undermining the norms of democratic government, and flouting the constitution as written to create entirely new constitutions that masquerade as ordinary amendments. The second question is central to the performance and endurance of constitutions. Constitutional designers today have virtually no resources to guide them in constructing the rules of amendment, and scholars do not have a clear portrait of the significance of amendment rules in the project of constitutionalism. This book shows that no part of a constitution is more important than the procedures we use change it. Amendment rules open a window into the soul of a constitution, exposing its deepest vulnerabilities and revealing its greatest strengths. The codification of amendment rules often at the end of the text proves that last is not always least.
Author : Federica Carugati
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0691195633
A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created and how political and economic goals that were normally associated with Western developed countries were once achieved through different institutional arrangements--with lessons for contemporary constitution-building.ding.
Author : Hanna Lerner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139502921
How can societies still grappling over the common values and shared vision of their state draft a democratic constitution? This is the central puzzle of Making Constitutions in Deeply Divided Societies. While most theories discuss constitution-making in the context of a moment of revolutionary change, Hanna Lerner argues that an incrementalist approach to constitution-making can enable societies riven by deep internal disagreements to either enact a written constitution or function with an unwritten one. She illustrates the process of constitution-writing in three deeply divided societies - Israel, India and Ireland - and explores the various incrementalist strategies deployed by their drafters. These include the avoidance of clear decisions, the use of ambivalent legal language and the inclusion of contrasting provisions in the constitution. Such techniques allow the deferral of controversial choices regarding the foundational aspects of the polity to future political institutions, thus enabling the constitution to reflect a divided identity.
Author : Jeff Broadwater
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1469651025
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies. Yet historians have often seen a tension between the idealistic rhetoric of the Declaration and the more pedestrian language of the Constitution. Moreover, to some, the adoption of the Constitution represented a repudiation of the democratic values of the Revolution. In this book, Jeff Broadwater explores the evolution of the constitutional thought of these two seminal American figures, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the adoption of the Bill of Rights. In explaining how the two political compatriots could have produced such seemingly dissimilar documents but then come to a common constitutional ground, Broadwater reveals how their collaboration--and their disagreements--influenced the full range of constitutional questions during this early period of the American republic.
Author : Andrew Coan
Publisher :
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : 0674986954
The Supreme Court is a tiny institution that can resolve only a fraction of the constitutional issues generated by the American government. This simple yet startling fact is impossible to deny, but few students of the Court have seriously considered its implications. In Rationing the Constitution, Andrew Coan explains how the Court's limited capacity shapes U.S. constitutional law and argues that the limits of judicial capacity powerfully constrain Supreme Court decision-making on many of the most important constitutional questions, spanning federalism, separation of powers, and individual rights. Examples include the commerce power, presidential powers, Equal Protection, and regulatory takings. The implications for U.S. constitutional law are profound. Lawyers, academics, and social activists pursuing social reform through the courts must consider whether their goals can be accomplished within the constraints of judicial capacity.--
Author : Jack N. Rakove
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2010-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307434516
From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has meant different things at different times to different groups of Americans.