Comparative Constitutions
Title | Comparative Constitutions PDF eBook |
Author | L.Wolf- Phillips |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1972-06-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1349015296 |
Comparative Constitution Making
Title | Comparative Constitution Making PDF eBook |
Author | David Landau |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 624 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1785365266 |
Recent years have witnessed an explosion of new research on constitution making. Comparative Constitution Making provides an up-to-date overview of this rapidly expanding field. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial}
Interpreting Constitutions
Title | Interpreting Constitutions PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Denys Goldsworthy |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2006-02-09 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0199274134 |
This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts, compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles. Among the interpretive methods discussed are textualism, purposivism, structuralism and originalism. Each of the six federations is the subject of a separate chapter written by a leading authority in the field: Jeffrey Goldsworthy (Australia), Peter Hogg (Canada), Donald Kommers (Germany), S.P. Sathe (India), Heinz Klug (South Africa), and Mark Tushnet (United States). Each chapter describes not only the interpretive methodology currently used by the courts, but the evolution of that methodology since the constitution was first enacted. The book also includes a concluding chapter which compares these methodologies, and attempts to explain variations by reference to different social, historical, institutional and political circumstances.
World Constitution - A Comparative Study
Title | World Constitution - A Comparative Study PDF eBook |
Author | Vishnoo Bhagwan |
Publisher | Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd |
Pages | 989 |
Release | |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 8120792580 |
This ninth revised edition of World Constitutions, a monumental work by seasoned authors, portrays the conceptual and legal framework of parliamentary democracies like the UK, Japan, Canada and Australia as well as of a presidential democracy like the USA. Tony Blair’s exit and making way for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister of UK, the spectacular triumph of Barack Obama as President of US and his sincere efforts to usher in an era of all-round peace and tranquility in hitherto strife-torn world, confronted with recession and morass of economic instability and insecurity have been covered while revising the book. The victory of Nicolas Sarcozy at the hustings in France has further given a flip to the concept of peace which has been on the last leg during the preceding regimes in some of the top democratic countries of the world. The Communist China which was vying with erstwhile Soviet Union sometime back has been given a prominent place in the book, portraying its considerably liberalised and substantially modernised socialistic infrastructure. The Swiss Constitution, the only direct democracy in the world, which is a judicious combination of presidential and parliamentary forms of democracy has been analytically presented. An incisive and comparative study of these constitutions will enable the reader to obtain an unbiased and dispassionate view of their working. Where necessary, eminent authorities on the subject have been quoted copiously. The book has been updated by incorporating the latest amendments to the constitutions. The Constitution of the Russian Federation has also been included while giving a synoptic reference to former Soviet Union, which was once a super power to reckon with.
The Endurance of National Constitutions
Title | The Endurance of National Constitutions PDF eBook |
Author | Zachary Elkins |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2009-10-12 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1139479741 |
Constitutions are supposed to provide an enduring structure for politics. Yet only half live more than nine years. Why is it that some constitutions endure while others do not? In The Endurance of National Constitutions Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton examine the causes of constitutional endurance from an institutional perspective. Supported by an original set of cross-national historical data, theirs is the first comprehensive study of constitutional mortality. They show that whereas constitutions are imperilled by social and political crises, certain aspects of a constitution's design can lower the risk of death substantially. Thus, to the extent that endurance is desirable - a question that the authors also subject to scrutiny - the decisions of founders take on added importance.
Comparative Constitutional Design
Title | Comparative Constitutional Design PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Ginsburg |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2012-02-27 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107020565 |
Assesses what we know - and do not know - about comparative constitutional design and particular institutional choices concerning executive power and other issues.
Comparing Constitutions
Title | Comparing Constitutions PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Rudden |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 395 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9780198763444 |
A political scientist and a comparative lawyer have joined forces to produce a revised and expanded version of the late F. E. Finer's classic Five Constitutions. Their book gives the present texts of four important constitutions, the American, German, French, and Russian. It adds the basic political structure of the European Union, and provides a full account of the British constitution in the terms revealed by examination of the other texts. A general chapter on comparing constitutions is complemented by careful analytical and alphabetical indexes. This work is a useful reference work for academics and scholars interested in comparative constitutions, politics, and law.