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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... leaders brutally inflict on their countrymen to the gentle , Spirit - guided consensus of Quaker meetings . Common sense and experience quickly dismiss the North Korean version as a mask for a determined , if clumsily inept , regime ...
... leaders brutally inflict on their countrymen to the gentle , Spirit - guided consensus of Quaker meetings . Common sense and experience quickly dismiss the North Korean version as a mask for a determined , if clumsily inept , regime ...
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... leaders do not even pretend to follow the terms of the constitutional text , a document they view , if they view it at all , as irrelevant . " Consti- tutions without Constitutionalism : Reflections on an African Paradox , " in Douglas ...
... leaders do not even pretend to follow the terms of the constitutional text , a document they view , if they view it at all , as irrelevant . " Consti- tutions without Constitutionalism : Reflections on an African Paradox , " in Douglas ...
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... Leadership . When " the Great Revolution " occurred in 1936 , its leader was a charismatic general . For almost six years he ruled as head of a troika ; the other two were an admiral and a banker . During World War II , the general ...
... Leadership . When " the Great Revolution " occurred in 1936 , its leader was a charismatic general . For almost six years he ruled as head of a troika ; the other two were an admiral and a banker . During World War II , the general ...
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Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order Walter F. Murphy. the junta's leaders used a combination of threats and bribery to try to co - opt leaders of the new dissidents . These efforts produced little success . Meanwhile , in the ...
Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order Walter F. Murphy. the junta's leaders used a combination of threats and bribery to try to co - opt leaders of the new dissidents . These efforts produced little success . Meanwhile , in the ...
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... leaders who had struggled for independence from governmental domination ; still others had been leaders of dissident groups ; one is a banker ; one is a Jesuit ; two are Protestant ministers ; and one of the Jewish members is president ...
... leaders who had struggled for independence from governmental domination ; still others had been leaders of dissident groups ; one is a banker ; one is a Jesuit ; two are Protestant ministers ; and one of the Jewish members is president ...
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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