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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... majority of citizens , must internalize the norms of popular yet limited government . And third , the stakes of politics cannot be lowered to the extent that citizens feel no need to vote or engage in other forms of political ...
... majority of citizens , must internalize the norms of popular yet limited government . And third , the stakes of politics cannot be lowered to the extent that citizens feel no need to vote or engage in other forms of political ...
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... majority 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 ...
... majority 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 ...
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... majority of " the people " want re- ligious conformity and try to force some of their number to change their religious beliefs , or if a similarly large majority want some of their numbers to live in luxury while forcing others to ...
... majority of " the people " want re- ligious conformity and try to force some of their number to change their religious beliefs , or if a similarly large majority want some of their numbers to live in luxury while forcing others to ...
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... majority agrees that their country has a fair chance of making such a sys- tem work . The delegates then attack several interrelated problems concern- ing the design of appropriate institutions and processes , such as immediate drafting ...
... majority agrees that their country has a fair chance of making such a sys- tem work . The delegates then attack several interrelated problems concern- ing the design of appropriate institutions and processes , such as immediate drafting ...
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... 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 is a group ...
... 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 is a group ...
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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