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A Sociology of Constitutions : Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective.
Chris Thornhill examines the legitimating role of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents in medieval Europe to recent constitutional transitions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in law and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; A SOCIOLOGY OF CONSTITUTIONS; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE ON TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS; Introduction; Why a sociology of constitutions?; What is a constitution?; A note on method and central concepts; 1 Medieval constitutions; The social origins of modern constitutions; Legal order in the church; Church law, the state and feudal transformation; Patterns of early statehood; Law and feudal transformation I: the Holy Roman Empire; Law and feudal transformation II: Italian city-states between church and Empire.
- Law and feudal transformation III: the consolidation of central monarchyConstitutions and the formation of early states; Early states and constitutions; Italian city-states; The Holy Roman Empire; The central monarchies; 2 Constitutions and early modernity; Constitutions and the rule of law at the end of the Middle Ages; The Reformation and the differentiation of state power; Positive law and the idea of the constitution; Constitutions and fundamental law; Early modern constitutional conflicts; The constitution of absolutism; Spain; France; Prussia and smaller states.
- Early classical constitutionalismSweden; The Dutch Republic; England; The constitution and the function of constitutional rights; 3 States, rights and the revolutionary form of power; Constitutional crisis and failed state formation; Poland and Sweden; Prussia and smaller German states; France; Constitutional revolutions and the form of political power; Rights revolutions; The American constitutions; The French constitutions; After the rights revolutions I: the Bonapartist temptation; After the rights revolutions II: monarchy limited and intensified; Restoration France; Spain; German states.
- BritainConstitutions and social design: 1848; France: popular democracy; Greece, Belgium, Hungary and the early Risorgimento; Germany; 4 Constitutions from empire to fascism; Constitutions after 1848; Constitutions in the imperial era; Italy; Germany; Spain; Russia; France; Britain; The First World War and the tragedy of the modern state; The transformation of statehood 1914-1918; The transformation of statehood after 1918; The failure of expansive democracy; Italy; Austria and Portugal; Germany; Rights and the Constitution of Fascism; Italy; Portugal and Spain; Germany.
- 5 Constitutions and democratic transitionsThe first wave of transition: constitutional re-foundation after 1945; Italy; Federal Republic of Germany; The second wave of transition: constitutional re-foundation in the 1970s; Portugal; Spain; The third wave of transition: constitutional transformation in the 1990s; Poland; Russia; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.