Designing democracy : what constitutions do /
What is the purpose of a constitution? This book shows how a democratic constitution helps diverse people, with opposing ethical and religious commitments, to live together on terms of mutual respect.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Tales of democracy and law
- Deliberative trouble
- Constitutional principles without constitutional theories
- Against tradition
- What should constitutions say? Secession and beyond
- Impeaching the President
- Democracy and rights: the nondelegation canons
- The anticaste principle
- Homosexuality and the constitution
- Sex equality vs. religion
- Social and economic rights? Lessons from South Africa
- Conclusion: Democracy's constitution.