Constitutional Identity /
In Constitutional Identity, Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn argues that a constitution acquires an identity through experience-from a mix of the political aspirations and commitments that express a nation's past and the desire to transcend that past. It is changeable but resistant to its own destruction...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2010]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: The Disharmonic Constitution
- 2. The Conundrum of the Unconstitutional Constitution
- 3. The Quest for a Compelling Unity
- 4. The Permeability of Constitutional Borders
- 5. The Sounds of Silence: Militant and Acquiescent Constitutionalism
- 6. "The First Page of the Constitution": Family, State, and Identity
- 7. Conclusion
- Index