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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beatty, David, M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1995.
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.