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Legitimacy and History : Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory /

This powerfully conceptualized book is both a rich intellectual history of two hundred years of American constitutional theory and an original philosophical inquiry into the possibility of self-government. Legitimate government in the United States means self-government. Yet Americans also believe t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kahn, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION Constitutional History as Discourse
  • CHAPTER ONE To Make a Constitution
  • CHAPTER TWO Maintenance and the Organism of the State
  • CHAPTER THREE The Evolving Unwritten Constitution
  • CHAPTER FOUR The Forum of Science in the Constitutional Order
  • CHAPTER FIVE The Locus of Will in Modern Constitutional Theory I
  • CHAPTER SIX Community in Contemporary Constitutional Theory
  • CONCLUSION The End of Constitutional Theory
  • Notes
  • Index