Making Constitutions

Author : Gabriel L. Negretto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107026520
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Constitutions written by Gabriel L. Negretto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines constitutional change in Latin America from 1900 to 2008 and provides the first systematic explanation of the origins of constitutional designs.

Author : David Landau
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785365266
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Constitution Making written by David Landau and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed an explosion of new research on constitution making. Comparative Constitution Making provides an up-to-date overview of this rapidly expanding field. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial}

Author : Federica Carugati
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691195633
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating a Constitution written by Federica Carugati and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created and how political and economic goals that were normally associated with Western developed countries were once achieved through different institutional arrangements--with lessons for contemporary constitution-building.ding.

Author : Richard Beeman
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812976843
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plain, Honest Men written by Richard Beeman and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1787, in an atmosphere of crisis, delegates met in Philadelphia to design a radically new form of government. Distinguished historian Richard Beeman captures as never before the dynamic of the debate and the characters of the men who labored that historic summer. Virtually all of the issues in dispute—the extent of presidential power, the nature of federalism, and, most explosive of all, the role of slavery—have continued to provoke conflict throughout our nation's history. This unprecedented book takes readers behind the scenes to show how the world's most enduring constitution was forged through conflict, compromise, and fragile consensus. As Gouverneur Morris, delegate of Pennsylvania, noted: "While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men."

Author : Axel Hadenius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521573115
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy's Victory and Crisis written by Axel Hadenius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars from a range of disciplines address questions central to the development and survival of democratic rule.

Author : Sujit Choudhry
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781783472956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitution Making written by Sujit Choudhry and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitution making is a topic of increasing scholarly and practical interest. Focusing on a set of important case studies, yet also featuring classic articles on the subject, this volume is a critical assembly of theoretical literature. Ensuring wide geographic and historical coverage, and including an original introduction by the editors, this collection provides an essential overview of the myriad of circumstances in which constitutions can be made.

Author : Vivien Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Constitution Making written by Vivien Hart and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Albert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190640499
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Amendments written by Richard Albert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constitutional Amendments: Making, Breaking, and Changing Constitutions is both a roadmap for navigating the intellectual universe of constitutional amendments and a blueprint for building and improving the rules of constitutional change. Drawing from dozens of constitutions in every region of the world, this book blends theory with practice to answer two all-important questions: what is an amendment and how should constitutional designers structure the procedures of constitutional change? The first matters now more than ever. Reformers are exploiting the rules of constitutional amendment, testing the limits of legal constraint, undermining the norms of democratic government, and flouting the constitution as written to create entirely new constitutions that masquerade as ordinary amendments. The second question is central to the performance and endurance of constitutions. Constitutional designers today have virtually no resources to guide them in constructing the rules of amendment, and scholars do not have a clear portrait of the significance of amendment rules in the project of constitutionalism. This book shows that no part of a constitution is more important than the procedures we use change it. Amendment rules open a window into the soul of a constitution, exposing its deepest vulnerabilities and revealing its greatest strengths. The codification of amendment rules often at the end of the text proves that last is not always least.

Author : Jack N. Rakove
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307434516
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Original Meanings written by Jack N. Rakove and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has meant different things at different times to different groups of Americans.

Author : Jeff Broadwater
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469651025
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution written by Jeff Broadwater and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution," were two of the most important Founders of the United States as well as the closest of political allies. Yet historians have often seen a tension between the idealistic rhetoric of the Declaration and the more pedestrian language of the Constitution. Moreover, to some, the adoption of the Constitution represented a repudiation of the democratic values of the Revolution. In this book, Jeff Broadwater explores the evolution of the constitutional thought of these two seminal American figures, from the beginning of the American Revolution through the adoption of the Bill of Rights. In explaining how the two political compatriots could have produced such seemingly dissimilar documents but then come to a common constitutional ground, Broadwater reveals how their collaboration--and their disagreements--influenced the full range of constitutional questions during this early period of the American republic.