What Should Constitutions Do
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What Should Constitutions Do?
Author: Ellen Frankel Paul
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2011-01-31
The essays in this volume - written by prominent philosophers, political scientists and legal scholars - address the basic purposes of constitutions and their status as fundamental law. Some deal with specific constitutional provisions: they ask, for example, which branches of government should have the authority to conduct foreign policy, or how the judiciary should be organized, or what role a preamble should play in a nation's founding document. Other essays explore questions of constitutional design: they consider the advantages of a federal system of government, or the challenges of designing a constitution for a pluralistic society - or they ask what form of constitution best promotes personal liberty and economic prosperity.
Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy
Author: Brian Christopher Jones
language: en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date: 2020-06-26
Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy investigates the increasingly important subject of constitutional idolatry and its effects on democracy. Focussed around whether the UK should draft a single written constitution, it suggests that constitutions have been drastically and persistently over-sold throughout the years, and that their wider importance and effects are not nearly as significant as constitutional advocates maintain. Chapters analyse whether written constitutions can educate the citizenry, invigorate voter turnout, or deliver ‘We the People’ sovereignty.
Designing Democracy
A fresh examination of constitutionalism is presented by one of the nation's most respected legal scholars.