Constitutional category: 1750 books
by Autores varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
El nombre Confederación Argentina se utiliza para referirse al período comprendido entre 1835 y 1852, en tanto estado federal basado en tratados interprovinciales, sin una constitución nacional.La Confederación Argentina estaba conformada por las provincias autónomas de Santa Fe, Entre Ríos,...
by Autores varios
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2016
La Constitución de la República Dominicana de 1994 fue promulgada el 14 de agosto de ese año, durante el mandato de Joaquín Balaguer, tras una grave crisis electoral. Se dispuso nuevamente la no reelección presidencial, así como la reducción de cuatro a solo dos años el período presidencial de Balaguer. Este hecho fue conocido en la historia como el Pacto por la Democracia.
by Adam Lamparello, Cynthia Swann
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book argues that the judiciary, particularly the Supreme Court, should embrace an interpretive framework that promotes equal participation in the democratic process, fosters accountability, and facilitates robust public discourse among citizens of all backgrounds. The authors propose a solution...
Open graves, open minds
Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Relates the Undead in literature and other media to questions concerning genre, technology, consumption and social change
Legal Mobilization under Authoritarianism
The Case of Post-Colonial Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Legal mobilization is the process by which individuals invoke their legal rights and use litigation to defend or develop these rights against the government. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to this phenomenon as it occurs under authoritarian regimes. It is often suggested that,...
Democracy Distorted
Wealth, Influence and Democratic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
High-profile controversies surrounding the funding of political parties have shown how inequalities in wealth can enter the political process. The growth of the professional lobbying of MPs and the executive raises similar questions about money in politics. More broadly, inequalities emerge in terms...
by Jill Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book explores the role human rights law plays in the formation, and protection, of our personal identities. Drawing from a range of disciplines, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law includes and excludes specific types of identity, which feed into moral norms of human freedom and human...
by Paulo Ferreira da Cunha
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The Adversary First Amendment
Free Expression and the Foundations of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
The Adversary First Amendment presents a unique and controversial rethinking of modern American democratic theory and free speech. Most free speech scholars understand the First Amendment as a vehicle for or protection of democracy itself, relying upon cooperative or collectivist theories of democracy....
Uncertain Accommodation
Aboriginal Identity and Group Rights in the Supreme Court of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
In 1982, after decades of determined mobilization by Aboriginal groups and their allies, the government of Canada formally recognized Aboriginal rights within its Constitution. The move reflected a consensus that states should and could use constitutionally enshrined group rights to protect and accommodate...
The Adventures of the Constituent Power
Beyond Revolutions?
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Constitutions are made in almost all transformation of regimes. What are the dangers and the hopes associated with such a process? What can make constitution-making legitimate? The Adventures of the Constituent Power explores the democratic methods by which political communities make their basic law,...
Judicial Activism
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the American and European Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
This volume offers different perspectives on judicial practice in the European and American contexts, both arguably characterized in the last decades by the emergence of novel normative and even policy arguments by judges. The central question deserving the attention of the contributors concerns the...
Ordered Liberty
Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Fleming and McClain defend a civic liberalism that takes seriously not just rights but responsibilities and virtues. Issues taken up include same-sex marriage, reproductive freedom, regulation of civil society and the family, education of children, and clashes between First Amendment freedoms of association and religion and antidiscrimination law.
Judicial Deliberations
A Comparative Analysis of Transparency and Legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Judicial Deliberations compares how and why the European Court of Justice, the French Cour de cassation and the US Supreme Court offer different approaches for generating judicial accountability and control, judicial debate and deliberation, and ultimately judicial legitimacy. Examining the judicial...