Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Constitutions

The debate about so-called economic globalization has reached a new phase. The hegemony of neo-liberal thinking has ended, in the face of both the increased and increasingly effective resistance to the social consequences of neo-liberal market-making - rising inequality and insecurity throughout the world - and the visibly dysfunctional effects of lack of regulation - currency and stock market crashes, among others. Thus, the story about 'the rise and fall of market society', which was first told in these terms by Karl Polanyi sixty years ago, is about to receive a new chapter.

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This book contains a variety of primary source and other documents--traditional accounts,...

As long as it was used in a coherent and legitimate way, the method held promise. Unfortunately, the logic of external...

Die siebenbandige Ausgabe enthalt alphabetisch nach Bundesstaaten sortiert rund 500 originalsprachige Verfassungstexte, Verfassungszusatze, gescheiterte Verfassungen und Verfassungsentwurfe aus den Vereinigten Staaten. Die Texte wurden auf der Grundlage der mitunter seltenen Originaldrucke der offiziellen Staats- oder Konventsdrucker unter Hinzuziehung der Originalmanuskripte ediert und annotiert. In Band VI werden die Verfassungsdokumente von Rio Grande bis Texas herausgegeben, in Band VII jene von Vermont bis Wisconsin.

Winner of the 2010 Book Award from the New England Historical Association

American constitutionalism represents this country's greatest gift to human freedom, yet its story remains largely untold. For over two hundred years, its ideals, ideas, and institutions influenced different peoples in different lands at different times. American constitutionalism and the revolutionary republican documents on which it is based affected countless countries by helping them develop their own constitutional democracies. Western constitutionalism--of which America was a part along...

Despite its crucial importance in U.S. history, the study of the constitutional system fell out of favor with many historians and history departments for several decades during the latter half of the twentieth century. The dawn of the twenty-first century, however, has borne witness to a new interdisciplinary interest among scholars in reviving this important dialogue in American history. This book represents some of the most innovative contributions to this dialogue by a new generation of historians and legal scholars. The essays presented in this volume offer new insights into...

An Entrenched Legacy takes a fresh look at the role of the Supreme Court in our modern constitutional system. Although criticisms of judicial power today often attribute its rise to the activism of justices seeking to advance particular political ideologies, Patrick Garry argues instead that the Supreme Court's power has grown mainly because of certain constitutional decisions during the New Deal era that initially seemed to portend a lessening of the Court's power.

When the Court retreated from enforcing separation of powers and federalism as the twin structural...

Though they shared a state for most of the twentieth century, when the Czechs and Slovaks split in 1993 they founded their new states on different definitions of sovereignty. The Czech Constitution employs a civic model, founding the state in the name of "the citizens of the Czech Republic," while the Slovak Constitution uses the more exclusive ethnic model and speaks in the voice of "the Slovak Nation."

"Defining the Sovereign Community" asks two central questions. First, why did the two states define sovereignty so differently? Second, what impact have these choices had on individual...

Zum ersten Mal liegt fur Amerika ein Index aller Staatsverfassungen, einschlielich aller Bundes- und Gliedstaaten, fur den Zeitraum von 1850 bis zur Gegenwart vor.
Der Band dokumentiert alle aktuellen und historischen Verfassungen samt ihrer Anderungen sowie alle nicht in Kraft getretenen Verfassungsentwurfe.
Fur jedes einzelne Land werden die Dokumente chronologisch aufgefuhrt und uber ein landerubergreifendes Gesamtverzeichnis und ein Register der Gliedstaaten erschlossen.