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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... voting as playgrounds rather than as arenas for serious scholarship . After Joseph Tanenhaus's death in 1981 , I continued to work in constitu- tional theory , sometimes in an overtly comparative fashion but usually , as in this book ...
... voting as playgrounds rather than as arenas for serious scholarship . After Joseph Tanenhaus's death in 1981 , I continued to work in constitu- tional theory , sometimes in an overtly comparative fashion but usually , as in this book ...
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... vote . " Rights to free discussion and association : ibid . , esp . p . 272 . 12. Dahl , in the works cited above , has been insistent on this point . See also Gutmann and Thompson , Democracy and Disagreement and Who Deliberates ? and ...
... vote . " Rights to free discussion and association : ibid . , esp . p . 272 . 12. Dahl , in the works cited above , has been insistent on this point . See also Gutmann and Thompson , Democracy and Disagreement and Who Deliberates ? and ...
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... vote , one time . " Constitutional Democracy Constitutional democracy , the most common arrangement in industrial so- cieties , unites beliefs that , although the people's freely chosen representatives should govern , those officials ...
... vote , one time . " Constitutional Democracy Constitutional democracy , the most common arrangement in industrial so- cieties , unites beliefs that , although the people's freely chosen representatives should govern , those officials ...
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... vote or engage in other forms of political participation . Popular government that is weak , unable to stir its people to act vigorously to promote the general welfare , is not likely to fulfill its basic functions . Moreover , a weak ...
... vote or engage in other forms of political participation . Popular government that is weak , unable to stir its people to act vigorously to promote the general welfare , is not likely to fulfill its basic functions . Moreover , a weak ...
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... vote of the legislature . Constitu- tional Democracy , p . xv . 47. I differ from Robert Barros , who argues that General Pinochet embraced constitutionalism : Constitutionalism and Dictatorship ; Pinochet , the Junta , and the 1980 ...
... vote of the legislature . Constitu- tional Democracy , p . xv . 47. I differ from Robert Barros , who argues that General Pinochet embraced constitutionalism : Constitutionalism and Dictatorship ; Pinochet , the Junta , and the 1980 ...
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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