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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... important form of political organization . What follows offers tangible proof of the claim in Ecclesiastes that " the use of books is endless . " This volume grew out of almost five decades of re- search , analysis , and worry . It ...
... important form of political organization . What follows offers tangible proof of the claim in Ecclesiastes that " the use of books is endless . " This volume grew out of almost five decades of re- search , analysis , and worry . It ...
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... important roles that courts and constitutional texts play in many other nations . To spread that gospel , we published a volume of essays and annotated cases , Comparative Constitutional Law . 10 That book was , however , born before ...
... important roles that courts and constitutional texts play in many other nations . To spread that gospel , we published a volume of essays and annotated cases , Comparative Constitutional Law . 10 That book was , however , born before ...
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... important in my work as well as my life : Joseph Tanenhaus , Alpheus Thomas Mason , and C. Herman Pritchett , my continual mentor and long ime coconspirator in Courts , Judges , and Politics . Each invested more of his time than he ...
... important in my work as well as my life : Joseph Tanenhaus , Alpheus Thomas Mason , and C. Herman Pritchett , my continual mentor and long ime coconspirator in Courts , Judges , and Politics . Each invested more of his time than he ...
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... been insistent on this point . See also Gutmann and Thompson , Democracy and Disagreement and Who Deliberates ? and Barber , Strong Democracy . each , and an opportunity to choose the most important General Introduction 5.
... been insistent on this point . See also Gutmann and Thompson , Democracy and Disagreement and Who Deliberates ? and Barber , Strong Democracy . each , and an opportunity to choose the most important General Introduction 5.
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... important framers of those public policies . Justifications for democratic rule ultimately rest on either or both of two foundations : 13 ( 1 ) the great and equal dignity of all men and women - the fundamental moral value of most ...
... important framers of those public policies . Justifications for democratic rule ultimately rest on either or both of two foundations : 13 ( 1 ) the great and equal dignity of all men and women - the fundamental moral value of 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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