Constitutional violence : legitimacy, democracy and human rights / Antoni Abat I. Ninet.
Material type: TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, �2013.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 192 pages)Content type:- text
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- State crimes
- Political violence
- Human rights -- Political aspects
- Democracy
- Constitutional law
- Violence -- Political aspects
- Political violence
- TRUE CRIME -- General
- PHILOSOPHY -- Political
- Constitutional law
- Democracy
- Human rights -- Political aspects
- Political violence
- State crimes
- Violence -- Political aspects
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.
Print version record.
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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