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Constitutional violence : legitimacy, democracy and human rights / Antoni Abat I. Ninet.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, �2013.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 192 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780748669554
  • 0748669558
  • 9780748684311
  • 074868431X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Constitutional violence.DDC classification:
  • 364.1322 23
LOC classification:
  • HV6322
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface; 1 introduction; 2 sovereignty and constitution; 3 democracy; 4 legal violence; 5 comparing consitutional violence; afterword; bibliography; index.
Summary: If constitutional legitimacy is based on violence, what does this mean for democracy?. Almost every state in the world has a written constitution. The great majority of these declare the constitution to be the law controlling the organs of the state. We tend to label western liberal political systems as 'constitutional democracies', dividing the system into a domain of politics where the people rule and a domain of law that is set aside for a trained elite. Legal, political and constitutional practices demonstrate that constitutionalism and democracy seem to be irreconcilable. Is good governme.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.

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Preface; 1 introduction; 2 sovereignty and constitution; 3 democracy; 4 legal violence; 5 comparing consitutional violence; afterword; bibliography; index.

If constitutional legitimacy is based on violence, what does this mean for democracy?. Almost every state in the world has a written constitution. The great majority of these declare the constitution to be the law controlling the organs of the state. We tend to label western liberal political systems as 'constitutional democracies', dividing the system into a domain of politics where the people rule and a domain of law that is set aside for a trained elite. Legal, political and constitutional practices demonstrate that constitutionalism and democracy seem to be irreconcilable. Is good governme.

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