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Founding Acts : Constitutional Origins in a Democratic Age.
Founding Acts argues that how constitutions are made (or their pedigree) is morally and politically as significant as what they are made of (or their content). On this view, democratic constitution-making is not only about making a democratic constitution, but also about making it democratically.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,
2016.
©2016 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Origins and foundations : two features of the modern constitution
- The paradox of democratic founding : canonical statements and contemporary perspectives
- The people and the lawgiver : Rousseau on the possibility of democratic founding
- Building a homeland : founding and identity in Hanna Arendt's Jewish writings
- Revolution and constitution : the legitimacy of beginning in question
- Law and democracy in founding moments : deliberative constitution-making
- "The act by which a people is a people."