Interest in constitutionalism and in the relationship among constitutions, national identity, and ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity has soared since the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Since World War II there has also been a proliferation of new constitutions that differ in several essential respects from the American constitution. These two developments raise many important questions concerning the nature and scope of constitutionalism. The essays in this volume—written by an international group of prominent legal scholars, philosophers, political scientists, and social theorists—investigate the theoretical implications of recent constitutional developments and bring useful new perspectives to bear on some of the longest enduring questions confronting constitutionalism and constitutional theory. Sharing a common focus on the interplay between constitutional identity and individual or group diversity, these essays offer challenging new insights on subjects ranging from universal constitutional norms and whether constitutional norms can be successfully transplanted between cultures to a consideration of whether constitutionalism affords the means to reconcile a diverse society’s quest for identity with its need to properly account for its differences; from the relation between constitution-making and revolution to that between collective interests and constitutional liberty and equality. This collection’s broad scope and nontechnical style will engage scholars from the fields of political theory, social theory, international studies, and law.
Contributors. Andrew Arato, Aharon Barak, Jon Elster, George P. Fletcher, Louis Henkin, Arthur J. Jacobson, Carlos Santiago Nino, Ulrich K. Preuss, David A. J. Richards, Michel Rosenfeld, Dominique Rousseau, András Sajó, Frederick Schauer, Bernhard Schlink, M. M. Slaughter, Cass R. Sunstein, Ruti G. Teitel, Robin West
Автор: Thomas Bustamante; Bernardo Gon?alves Fernandes Название: Democratizing Constitutional Law ISBN: 3319283693 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319283692 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 18167.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume critically discusses the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism. It does so with a view to respond to objections raised by legal and political philosophers who are sceptical of judicial review based on the assumption that judicial review is an undemocratic institution. The book builds on earlier literature on the moral justification of the authority of constitutional courts, and on the current attempts to develop a system on "weak judicial review". Although different in their approach, the chapters all focus on devising institutions, procedures and, in a more abstract way, normative conceptions to democratize constitutional law. These democratizing strategies may vary from a radical objection to the institution of judicial review, to a more modest proposal to justify the authority of constitutional courts in their "deliberative performance" or to create constitutional juries that may be more aware of a community's constitutional morality than constitutional courts are. The book connects abstract theoretical discussions about the moral justification of constitutionalism with concrete problems, such as the relation between constitutional adjudication and deliberative democracy, the legitimacy of judicial review in international institutions, the need to create new institutions to democratize constitutionalism, the connections between philosophical conceptions and constitutional practices, the judicial review of constitutional amendments, and the criticism on strong judicial review.
I Challenging and Defending Judicial Review.- 1. Randomized Judicial Review; Andrei Marmor.- 2. On the Difficulty to Ground the Authority of Constitutional Courts: Can Strong Judicial Review be Morally Justified?; Thomas Bustamante.- 3. The Reasons without Vote: The Representative and Majoritarian Function of Constitutional Courts; Luнs Roberto Barroso.- II Constitutional Dialogues and Constitutional Deliberation.- 4. Decoupling Judicial Review From Judicial Supremacy; Stephen Gardbaum.- 5. Scope and limits of dialogic constitutionalism; Roberto Gargarella.- 6. A Defence of a Broader Sense of Constitutional Dialogues based on Jeremy Waldron's Criticism on Judicial Review; Bernardo Gonзalves Fernandes.- III Institutional Alternatives for Constitutional Changes.- 7. New Institutional Mechanisms for Making Constitutional Law; Mark Tushnet.- 8. Democratic Constitutional Change: Assessing Institutional Possibilities; Christopher Zurn.- 9. The Unconstitutionality of Constitutional Changes in Colombia: a Tension between Majoritatian and Constitutional Democracy; Gonzalo Ramнrez Cleves.- IV Constitutional Promises and Democratic Participation.- 10. Is there such thing as a radical constitution?; Vera Karam de Chueiri.- 11. Judicial reference to community values - A pointer towards constitutional juries?; Eric Ghosh.- V Legal Theory and Constitutional Interpretation.- 12. Common Law Constitutionalism and the Written Constitution; Wil Waluchow and Katharina Stevens.- 13. On how law is not like chess - Dworkin and the theory of conceptual types; Ronaldo Porto Macedo Jъnior.
Автор: Loughlin, Martin; Walker, Neil Название: The Paradox of Constitutionalism ISBN: 0199552207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199552207 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In modern political communities ultimate authority is often thought to reside with `the people`. This book examines how constitutions act as a delegation of power from `the people` to representative and expert institutions, and looks at the attendant problems of maintaining the legitimacy of these constitutional arrangements.
Описание: Using Malaysia as a case study, this book examines developments to key national security laws in the last decade and critically analyses the extent to which they embody law reform aimed at strengthening the rule of law and establishing a functional and inclusive democracy.
Adopting a contextual approach that assesses these legal developments alongside the political transition and reawakening of civil society in Malaysia, the book documents how the notion of ‘national security’ has largely been conflated with ‘regime security’, and demonstrates that the new laws have in the main, failed to meet such rule of law and democratic aspirations.
Tracing this failure to underlying problems in the Federal Constitution understood within the broader socio-political context, the book provides conceptual and practical lessons about the law and practice of national security in aspiring democracies. In proposing recommendations for more effective reform, the book offers an alternative vision of freedom, state power and the constitution in Malaysia.
Описание: The book synthesizes the evolution of covenantal life from its inception in the Period of the Judges to American constitutionalism, from "I am the Lord" to ... "We the People."
Автор: Richard Albert Название: Revolutionary Constitutionalism: Law, Legitimacy, Power ISBN: 150993457X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509934577 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 10296.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book, the result of a major international conference held at Yale Law School, contains contributions from leading scholars in public law who engage critically with Bruce Ackerman's path-breaking book on Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law. The book also features a rebuttal chapter by Ackerman in which he responds directly to review essays by authors.
Some contributors advance Ackerman's theory, others attack it, and still others refine it-but all agree that the ideas in the book reset the terms of debate on the most important subjects in constitutionalism today: from the promise and perils of populism to the causes and consequences of democratic backsliding, from the optimal models of constitutional design to the forms and limits of constitutional amendment, and from the role of courts in politics to how we identify when the mythical "people" have spoken. A must read for all those interested in the current state of constitutionalism.
It has been frequently argued that democracy is protected and realized under constitutions that protect certain rights and establish the conditions for a functioning representative democracy. However, some democrats still find something profoundly unsettling about contemporary constitutional regimes. The participation of ordinary citizens in constitutional change in the world's most "advanced" democracies (such as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom) is weak at best: the power of constitutional reform usually lies in the exclusive hands of legislatures. How can constitutions that can only be altered by those occupying positions of power be considered democratically legitimate?
This book argues that only a regime that provides an outlet for constituent power to manifest from time to time can ever come to enjoy democratic legitimacy. In so doing, it advances a democratic constitutional theory, one that combines a strong or participatory conception of democracy with a weak form of constitutionalism. The author engages with Anglo-American constitutional theory as well as examining the theory and practise of constituent power in different constitutional regimes (including Latin American countries) where constituent power has become an important part of the left's legal and political discourse. Weak Constitutionalism: Democratic Legitimacy and the Question of Constituent Power will be of particular interest to legal/political theorists and comparative constitutional lawyers. It also provides an introduction to the theory of constituent power and its relationship to constitutionalism and democracy.
A major American legal thinker, the late Ronald Dworkin also helped shape new dispensations in the Global South. In South Africa, in particular, his work has been fiercely debated in the context of one of the world’s most progressive constitutions. Despite Dworkin’s discomfort with that document’s enshrinement of “socioeconomic rights,” his work enables an important defense of a jurisprudence premised on justice, rather than on legitimacy. Beginning with a critical overview of Dworkin’s work culminating in his two principles of dignity, Cornell and Friedman turn to Kant and Hegel for an approach better able to ground the principles of dignity Dworkin advocates. Framed thus, Dworkin’s challenge to legal positivism enables a theory of constitutional revolution in which existing legal structures are transformatively revalued according to ethical mandates. By founding law on dignity, Dworkin begins to articulate an ethical jurisprudence responsive to the lived experience of injustice. This book, then, articulates a revolutionary constitutionalism crucial to the struggle for decolonization.
Interest in constitutionalism and in the relationship among constitutions, national identity, and ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity has soared since the collapse of socialist regimes in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Since World War II there has also been a proliferation of new constitutions that differ in several essential respects from the American constitution. These two developments raise many important questions concerning the nature and scope of constitutionalism. The essays in this volume—written by an international group of prominent legal scholars, philosophers, political scientists, and social theorists—investigate the theoretical implications of recent constitutional developments and bring useful new perspectives to bear on some of the longest enduring questions confronting constitutionalism and constitutional theory. Sharing a common focus on the interplay between constitutional identity and individual or group diversity, these essays offer challenging new insights on subjects ranging from universal constitutional norms and whether constitutional norms can be successfully transplanted between cultures to a consideration of whether constitutionalism affords the means to reconcile a diverse society’s quest for identity with its need to properly account for its differences; from the relation between constitution-making and revolution to that between collective interests and constitutional liberty and equality. This collection’s broad scope and nontechnical style will engage scholars from the fields of political theory, social theory, international studies, and law.
Contributors. Andrew Arato, Aharon Barak, Jon Elster, George P. Fletcher, Louis Henkin, Arthur J. Jacobson, Carlos Santiago Nino, Ulrich K. Preuss, David A. J. Richards, Michel Rosenfeld, Dominique Rousseau, András Sajó, Frederick Schauer, Bernhard Schlink, M. M. Slaughter, Cass R. Sunstein, Ruti G. Teitel, Robin West
Автор: Tushnet Mark, Bugaric Bojan Название: Power to the People: Constitutionalism in the Age of Populism ISBN: 0197606717 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197606711 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10044.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this volume, an imposing roster of both internationally renowned Iranian scholars and rising young Iranian academics offer essays - many based on recent fieldwork - on the nature and evolution of Iran`s economy, significant aspects of Iran`s changing society, and the dynamics of its domestic and international politics since the 1979 revolution, focusing particularly on the post-Khomeini period.
Автор: Maria Tzanakopoulou Название: Reclaiming Constitutionalism: Democracy, Power and the State ISBN: 1509939628 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509939626 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 5542.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Reclaiming Constitutionalism articulates an argument for why the constitutional phenomenon remains attached to the state – despite the recent advent of theories of global constitutionalism. Drawing from the idea that constitutionalism historically sought to build social consensus, this book argues that the primary aim of constitutionalism is to create social peace and to shield, rather than to limit, the power of political elites in any given state. Implicit in the effort to preserve social peace is the fundamentally important acknowledgement of social conflict. Constitutionalism seeks to offer a balance between opposing social forces. However, this balancing process can sometimes ignite, rather than appease, social conflict. Constitutionalism may thus further a project of social struggles and emancipation, for it incorporates within its very nucleus the potential for an agonistic version of democracy. In light of the connection between social conflict and constitutionalism, this book explores the conditions for and locations of the former. From the state and the EU to the global level, it considers the role of citizenship, national identities, democracy, power, and ideology, in order to conclude that the state is the only site that satisfies the prerequisites for social conflict. Reclaiming constitutionalism means building a discourse that opens up an emancipatory potential; a potential that, under current conditions, cannot be fulfilled beyond the borders of the state.
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