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Constitution-Making : Principles, Process, Practice /
In response to the general crisis in law and society in contemporary western and communist nations alike, and to the need for new relations between man and the state, Professor McWhinney presents a comparative study of constitutions and constitution-making.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[1981]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; 1 Constitutions and constitutionalism; 2 Constituent power: the when and why of constitution-making; 3 The constitution-makers: who does what; 4 The art of constitution-making: the how and what of constitutional drafting; 5 The principal antinomies of contemporary constitution-making: the presidential executive or government by assembly; 6 Constitutional antinomies: centralization and decentralization; federalism, regionalism, and devolution; 7 Constitutionalism and extraordinary powers: the concept of constitutional emergency
- 8 Man and the state: the open society and affirmative action9 Political representation: direct and indirect elections; individual and group representation; 10 Control of constitutionality: judicial review, and government by the judiciary; 11 The limits and possibilities of contemporary constitutionalism; 12 Some rules of constitutional-prudence for contemporary constitution-makers; APPENDIX Extracts from major constitutional charters; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX