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"This book addresses the widely held belief that liberal democracy embodies an uneasy compromise of incompatible values: those of liberal rights in the one hand, and democratic equality on the other. Liberalism is said to compromise democracy, while democracy is said to endanger the values of l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kis, János, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hungarian
Publicado: Budapest ; New York : CEU Press, 2003.
Edición:English ed.
Temas:
Democracy.
Liberalism.
Constitutional courts > Hungary.
Free enterprise.
Libéralisme.
Cours constitutionnelles > Hongrie.
liberalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
Constitutional courts.
Hungary.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Common Good and Civic Virtue
  • 1. Liberalism and republicanism
  • 2. preference-aggregating model
  • 3. ethical model: the responsible voter
  • 4. ethical model: the relation between private and communal preferences
  • 5. ethical model: public debate and voting
  • 6. On the relation of the two models
  • 7. Liberalism and the descriptive claims of the ethical model
  • 8. Virtue in politics
  • 9. politics of virtue and personal autonomy
  • 10. Concluding remarks
  • Liberal Democracy
  • Against the Compromise Thesis
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. conflict
  • 3. Constitutional constraints, constitutional review
  • 4. Political equality and rule by the majority
  • 5. Equality of votes and equality of voters
  • 6. Contractarian theory: the selection of voting rules
  • 7. weakness of contractarian theory
  • 8. typology of preferences
  • 9. Filtering the preferences of the contracting parties
  • 10. Moral discussion before the contract
  • 11. mandate of the guardians of the constitution
  • 12. Summary and restrictions
  • Constitutional Review
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Two Conceptions
  • 1.2. Questions of Principle and Questions of Regulation
  • 1.3. Means of Judicial Interpretation of the Constitution
  • 1.4. Brief Overview of What Follows
  • 2. Interpreting the constitution
  • 2.1. Popular Sovereignty
  • 2.2. Only That Which is "in the Text"
  • 2.3. Strict Reading
  • 2.4. Historical Readings
  • 2.5. Substantive Readings: Structural Interpretations
  • 2.6. Substantive Interpretations: the Moral Reading
  • 2.7. Special Objections: the Structural Reading
  • 2.8. Special Objections: the Moral Reading
  • 2.9. Substantive Readings: Critical Interpretation
  • 2.10. General Objections against Substantive Reading
  • 2.11. Constitution Making
  • 3. Striking down legislation
  • 3.1. Once again on Popular Sovereignty.

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