Constitutional Law in Theory and Practice.
David Beatty draws on more than twenty years' teaching experience to produce a comprehensive introduction to the basic rules in constitutional law, accessible to law and non-law students alike.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
1995.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
Colección: | Heritage.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Constitutional Law
- Introduction
- Constitutions
- Purpose
- Style
- The Dilemma
- Methods of Reform
- Constitutional Law
- Purpose and Method
- The Controversy
- The Rules
- 2 Division of Powers
- Introduction
- What Do the Words Mean?
- The Plain-Meaning Approach
- External Aids: Dictionaries and Precedents
- Internal Aids: The Intention of the Framers and the Logic of the Text
- The Federal Principle
- Guaranteeing Equal Sovereignty
- Maximizing Equal Sovereignty
- Constitutional Law
- The Rules
- The Rules and the Record of the Court
- The Possibility of Judicial Review
- 3 Human Rights
- Introduction
- What Do the Words Mean?
- External Aids: American and Canadian Bills of Rights
- Internal Aids: The Intention of the Framers and the Logic of the Text
- Defining Rights
- Fundamental Freedoms: Expression and Religion
- Reasonable Limits and Maximizing Rights
- Human Rights and Legal Reasoning
- Human Rights and the Rules of Constitutional Law
- Rationality, Proportionality, and the Record of the Court
- Human Rights and Judicial Exemptions
- Scope of the Charter: Where Rationality and Proportionality Do Not Apply
- Human Rights and Judicial Deference
- The Possibility of Judicial Review
- 4 Comparative Constitutional Law
- Introduction
- The United States
- India
- Japan
- Germany
- The European Court of Human Rights
- 5 Law and Politics
- Rights and the Rules of Law
- Rights and Duties
- Law and Politics
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- U
- V
- W.