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A Sociology of Constitutions

Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective

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Paperback, 466 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9781107610569
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Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to recent processes of constitutional transition. A Sociology of Constitutions explores the reasons why modern societies require constitutions and constitutional norms and presents a distinctive socio-normative analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy.

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ISBN13:9781107610569
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:466

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1. Medieval constitutions; 2. Constitutions and early modernity; 3. States, rights and the revolutionary form of power; 4. Constitutions from Empire to Fascism; 5. Constitutions and democratic transitions.

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