Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political OrderJHU Press, 2007 - 547 páginas Constitutional democracy is a political hybrid, the product of an uneasy union between, on the one hand, the normative theories of constitutionalism and democracy and, on the other, the desire to live under what James Madison called free government. In this engaging and provocative work, Walter F. Murphy combines a lifetime's study of constitutions and democracy with traditional storytelling to answer fundamental questions about constitutional democracy: How is it created? How is it maintained? How can it be adapted to changing circumstances? Murphy begins with a definitional section on constitutions, constitutional texts, constitutionalism, and democracy. Next, he tells the story of how a democracy is established within the context of a fictional constitutional convention for a fictional country. |
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... groups and thus , in a majoritarian political system , are likely to be ruled by a coalition of potentially self - serving minorities . Consti- tutionalists are distrustful of " majority's " benevolence toward those who are " different ...
... groups and thus , in a majoritarian political system , are likely to be ruled by a coalition of potentially self - serving minorities . Consti- tutionalists are distrustful of " majority's " benevolence toward those who are " different ...
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... group of citizens ( those who own property and operate businesses ) and deny that it has the duty or even the authority to ... groups of individuals . " Apple of Gold : Constitutionalism in Israel and the United States ( Princeton , NJ ...
... group of citizens ( those who own property and operate businesses ) and deny that it has the duty or even the authority to ... groups of individuals . " Apple of Gold : Constitutionalism in Israel and the United States ( Princeton , NJ ...
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... groups while educating a population that has almost no firsthand experience with the norms of either democratic or constitutionalist rule . In sum , although Nusquam is not without impressive resources , it badly needs not only eco ...
... groups while educating a population that has almost no firsthand experience with the norms of either democratic or constitutionalist rule . In sum , although Nusquam is not without impressive resources , it badly needs not only eco ...
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... groups . A majority are from old families ; about 20 percent are relatively new immigrants from Central America ; a group of seventy - five thousand Catholics are Vietnamese emigres and their children from the years 1978-1981 ; and last ...
... groups . A majority are from old families ; about 20 percent are relatively new immigrants from Central America ; a group of seventy - five thousand Catholics are Vietnamese emigres and their children from the years 1978-1981 ; and last ...
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... groups of whatever religion or ethnicity . Moreover , relations between Turks and Armenians as well as between Sephardic Jews and Palestinian Arabs have several times fired riots . No group has fully accepted the Hispanics , and most ...
... groups of whatever religion or ethnicity . Moreover , relations between Turks and Armenians as well as between Sephardic Jews and Palestinian Arabs have several times fired riots . No group has fully accepted the Hispanics , and most ...
Contenido
Values Interests and Goals | 34 |
Alternative Political Systems | 66 |
Alternative Political Systems The Debate | 106 |
The Possibility of Constitutional Democracy | 145 |
To Draft or Not to Draft a Constitutional Text | 183 |
Drafting 1 The Shape of the Constitution | 204 |
Drafting 2 The Judiciary | 239 |
Drafting 3 A Bill of Rights | 274 |
Creating Citizens | 340 |
Military and Security Forces | 376 |
Rebuilding the Machinery of the State The Bureaucracies | 396 |
Dealing with Deposed Despots | 423 |
Constitutional Interpretation as Constitutional Maintenance | 458 |
Constitutional Change and Its Limits | 495 |
Epilogue | 528 |
Reprise | 531 |
Drafting 4 Special Cases | 305 |
Epilogue | 322 |
Introduction | 329 |
General Index | 535 |
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