Constitutional category: 1750 books
by Melvin B. Hill, , Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
In The Georgia State Constitution, the authors offer a detailed description of the creation and development of Georgia's constitution. They explain how political and cultural events, from colonial times, through the Civil War, to the present, have affected Georgia's constitutional law. Accompanying...
Privacy and the American Constitution
New Rights Through Interpretation of an Old Text
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
This book explains a paradox in American constitutional law: how a right not discussed during the ratification debates at Philadelphia and not mentioned in the text has become a core component of modern freedom. Rather, privacy is a constitutional afterthought that has gained force through modern...
by Mark A. Graber
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
For more than a decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has turned a skeptical eye toward Congress. Distrustful of Congress’s capacity to respect constitutional boundaries, the Court has recently overturned federal legislation at a historically unprecedented rate. This intensified judicial scrutiny highlights...
Constitutional Interpretation
The Basic Questions
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Ronald Dworkin famously argued that fidelity in interpreting the Constitution as written calls for a fusion of constitutional law and moral philosophy. Barber and Fleming take up that call, arguing for a philosophic approach to constitutional interpretation. In doing so, they systematically critique...
by Vittoria Barsotti, Paolo G. Carozza, Marta Cartabia
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context is the first book ever published in English to provide an international examination of the Italian Constitutional Court (ItCC), offering a comprehensive analysis of its principal lines of jurisprudence, historical origins, organization, procedures,...
by Betül Aslan
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Law - Public Law / Constitutional Law / Basic Rights, University of Regensburg, language: English, abstract: The constitutional integration in Turkish law is made by the constitutional harmony among all legal norms. The first stage of...
The Dynamic Free Speech Clause
Free Speech and its Relation to Other Constitutional Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The right to free speech intersects with many other constitutional rights. Those intersections have significantly influenced the recognition, scope, and meaning of rights, ranging from freedom of the press to the Second Amendment right to bear arms. They have also influenced interpretation of the...
Dimensions of Dignity
The Theory and Practice of Modern Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
In an age of constitutional revolutions and reforms, theory and practice are moving in opposite directions. As a matter of constitutional practice, human dignity has emerged in jurisdictions around the world as the organizing idea of a groundbreaking paradigm. By reconfiguring constitutional norms,...
The Three Branches
A Comparative Model of Separation of Powers
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
The idea of the separation of powers is still popular in much political and constitutional discourse, though its meaning for the modern state remains unclear and contested. This book develops a new, comprehensive, and systematic account of the principle. It then applies this new concept to legal problems...
We the People, Volume 2
Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2000
Constitutional change, seemingly so orderly, formal, and refined, has in fact been a revolutionary process from the first, as Bruce Ackerman makes clear in We the People, Volume 2: Transformations. The Founding Fathers, hardly the genteel conservatives of myth, set America on a remarkable course of...
Borrowing Constitutional Designs
Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions. Surprisingly, the constitutional model they most often chose was neither the pure parliamentary model found in most of Western Europe at the time, nor the presidential model of the Americas. Rather,...
The DNA of Constitutional Justice in Latin America
Politics, Governance, and Judicial Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In recent times there has been a dramatic change in the nature and scope of constitutional justice systems in the global south. New or reformed constitutions have proliferated, protecting social, economic, and political rights. While constitutional courts in Latin America have traditionally been used...
War Powers
The Politics of Constitutional Authority
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Armed interventions in Libya, Haiti, Iraq, Vietnam, and Korea challenged the US president and Congress with a core question of constitutional interpretation: does the president, or Congress, have constitutional authority to take the country to war? War Powers argues that the Constitution doesn't offer...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law is an advanced level reference work which surveys the current state of constitutional law. Featuring new, specially commissioned papers by a range of leading scholars from around the world, it offers a comprehensive overview of the field as well as identifying...