Constitutions Of The Countries Of The World

Author : Robert L. Maddex
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136217967
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutions of the World written by Robert L. Maddex and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Algeria to Zimbabwe, Constitutions of the World is a guide to the constitutions and constitutional histories of eighty nations. It will prove an invaluable resource for any teacher or student interested in politics, law, human rights or the political history of nations across the world. Strucured alphabetically each chapter profiles one country in an easy-to-use format. For every country a wealth of information is to be found.

Author : Albert P. Blaustein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1322 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutions of the Countries of the World written by Albert P. Blaustein and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nathan J. Brown
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079148968X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutions in a Nonconstitutional World written by Nathan J. Brown and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of authoritarian regimes and the global resurgence of liberal democracy has led to a renewed interest in constitutions and constitutionalism among scholars and political activists alike. This book uses the Arab experience to explain the appeal of constitutional documents to authoritarian regimes and assesses the degree to which such constitutions can be used in the effort to make the regimes more accountable.

Author : Anneli Albi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462652732
Total Pages : 1522 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Constitutions in European and Global Governance: Democracy, Rights, the Rule of Law written by Anneli Albi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume book, published open access, brings together leading scholars of constitutional law from twenty-nine European countries to revisit the role of national constitutions at a time when decision-making has increasingly shifted to the European and transnational level. It offers important insights into three areas. First, it explores how constitutions reflect the transfer of powers from domestic to European and global institutions. Secondly, it revisits substantive constitutional values, such as the protection of constitutional rights, the rule of law, democratic participation and constitutional review, along with constitutional court judgments that tackle the protection of these rights and values in the transnational context, e.g. with regard to the Data Retention Directive, the European Arrest Warrant, the ESM Treaty, and EU and IMF austerity measures. The responsiveness of the ECJ regarding the above rights and values, along with the standard of protection, is also assessed. Thirdly, challenges in the context of global governance in relation to judicial review, democratic control and accountability are examined. On a broader level, the contributors were also invited to reflect on what has increasingly been described as the erosion or ‘twilight’ of constitutionalism, or a shift to a thin version of the rule of law, democracy and judicial review in the context of Europeanisation and globalisation processes. The national reports are complemented by a separately published comparative study, which identifies a number of broader trends and challenges that are shared across several Member States and warrant wider discussion. The research for this publication and the comparative study were carried out within the framework of the ERC-funded project ‘The Role and Future of National Constitutions in European and Global Governance’. The book is aimed at scholars, researchers, judges and legal advisors working on the interface between national constitutional law and EU and transnational law. The extradition cases are also of interest to scholars and practitioners in the field of criminal law. Anneli Albi is Professor of European Law at the University of Kent, United Kingdom. Samo Bardutzky is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Author : Amos Jenkins Peaslee
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutions of nations written by Amos Jenkins Peaslee and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1950 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Adam Chilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190871458
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Constitutional Rights Matter written by Adam Chilton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does constitutionalizing rights improve respect for those rights in practice? Drawing on statistical analyses, survey experiments, and case studies from around the world, this book argues that enforcing constitutional rights is not easy, but that some rights are harder to repress than others. First, enshrining rights in constitutions does not automatically ensure that those rights will be respected. For rights to matter, rights violations need to be politically costly. But this is difficult to accomplish for unconnected groups of citizens. Second, some rights are easier to enforce than others, especially those with natural constituencies that can mobilize for their enforcement. This is the case for rights that are practiced by and within organizations, such as the rights to religious freedom, to unionize, and to form political parties. Because religious groups, trade unions and parties are highly organized, they are well-equipped to use the constitution to resist rights violations. As a result, these rights are systematically associated with better practices. By contrast, rights that are practiced on an individual basis, such as free speech or the prohibition of torture, often lack natural constituencies to enforce them, which makes it easier for governments to violate these rights. Third, even highly organized groups armed with the constitution may not be able to stop governments dedicated to rights-repression. When constitutional rights are enforced by dedicated organizations, they are thus best understood as speed bumps that slow down attempts at repression. An important contribution to comparative constitutional law, this book provides a comprehensive picture of the spread of constitutional rights, and their enforcement, around the world.

Author : Joakim Nergelius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutions of the Countries of the World written by Joakim Nergelius and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan M. Dershowitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195307798
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is There a Right to Remain Silent? written by Alan M. Dershowitz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outspoken legal scholar and author of America on Trial reveals why Fifth Amendment rights matter and how they are being reshaped, limited, and in some cases revoked in the wake of 9/11, in this absorbing look at one of the most essential constitutional rights.

Author : Amos J. Peaslee
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401771251
Total Pages : 919 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutions of Nations written by Amos J. Peaslee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Linda Colley
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631498355
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World written by Linda Colley and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Books of the Year: Financial Times, The Economist Book of the Year: The Leaflet (International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism) Longlisted for the Cundill History Prize Profiled in The New Yorker New York Times Book Review • Editors’ Choice Vivid and magisterial, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen reconfigures the rise of a modern world through the advent and spread of written constitutions. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted narratives and uncovering the close connections between the making of constitutions and the making of war. In the process, Linda Colley both reappraises famous constitutions and recovers those that have been marginalized but were central to the rise of a modern world. She brings to the fore neglected sites, such as Corsica, with its pioneering constitution of 1755, and tiny Pitcairn Island in the Pacific, the first place on the globe permanently to enfranchise women. She highlights the role of unexpected players, such as Catherine the Great of Russia, who was experimenting with constitutional techniques with her enlightened Nakaz decades before the Founding Fathers framed the American constitution. Written constitutions are usually examined in relation to individual states, but Colley focuses on how they crossed boundaries, spreading into six continents by 1918 and aiding the rise of empires as well as nations. She also illumines their place not simply in law and politics but also in wider cultural histories, and their intimate connections with print, literary creativity, and the rise of the novel. Colley shows how—while advancing epic revolutions and enfranchising white males—constitutions frequently served over the long nineteenth century to marginalize indigenous people, exclude women and people of color, and expropriate land. Simultaneously, though, she investigates how these devices were adapted by peoples and activists outside the West seeking to resist European and American power. She describes how Tunisia generated the first modern Islamic constitution in 1861, quickly suppressed, but an influence still on the Arab Spring; how Africanus Horton of Sierra Leone—inspired by the American Civil War—devised plans for self-governing nations in West Africa; and how Japan’s Meiji constitution of 1889 came to compete with Western constitutionalism as a model for Indian, Chinese, and Ottoman nationalists and reformers. Vividly written and handsomely illustrated, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen is an absorbing work that—with its pageant of formative wars, powerful leaders, visionary lawmakers and committed rebels—retells the story of constitutional government and the evolution of ideas of what it means to be modern.