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.
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.
How Constitutions Change
Title | How Constitutions Change PDF eBook |
Author | Dawn Oliver |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 2011-08-09 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1847316689 |
This set of essays explores how constitutions change and are changed in a number of countries, and how the 'constitution' of the EU changes and is changed. For a range of reasons, including internal and external pressures, the constitutional arrangements in many countries are changing. Constitutional change may be formal, involving amendments to the texts of Constitutions or the passage of legislation of a clearly constitutional kind, or informal and organic, as where court decisions affect the operation of the system of government, or where new administrative and other arrangements (eg agencification) affect or articulate or alter the operation of the constitution of the country, without the need to resort to formal change. The countries in this study include, from the EU, a common law country, a Nordic one, a former communist state, several civil law systems, parliamentary systems and a hybrid one (France). Chapters on non EU countries include two on developing countries (India and South Africa), two on common law countries without entrenched written constitutions (Israel and New Zealand), a presidential system (the USA) and three federal ones (Switzerland, the USA and Canada). In the last two chapters the editors conduct a detailed comparative analysis of the jurisdiction-based chapters and explore the question whether any overarching theory or theories about constitutional change in liberal democracies emerge from the study.
The Constitutions of the World. A Comparative Study
Title | The Constitutions of the World. A Comparative Study PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 110 |
Release | 1937 |
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Comparative Constitutions
Title | Comparative Constitutions PDF eBook |
Author | L.Wolf- Phillips |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 1972-06-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1349015296 |
World Constitutions
Title | World Constitutions PDF eBook |
Author | Vishnoo Bhagwan |
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Pages | |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Constitutional history |
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Constitutions in the Global Financial Crisis
Title | Constitutions in the Global Financial Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Xenophon Contiades |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2016-05-23 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1317161610 |
This book is the first to address the multi-faceted influence of the global financial crisis on the national constitutions of the countries most affected. By tracing the impact of the crisis on formal and informal constitutional change, sovereignty issues, fundamental rights protection, regulatory reforms, jurisprudence, the augmentation of executive power, and changes in the party system it addresses all areas of the current constitutional law dialogue and aims to become a reference book with regard to the interaction between financial crises and constitutions. The book includes contributions from prominent experts on Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Spain, the UK, and the USA providing a critical analysis of the effects of the financial crisis on the constitution. The volume’s extensive comparative chapter pins down distinct constitutional reactions towards the financial crisis, building an explanatory theory that accounts for the different ways constitutions responded to the crisis. How and why constitutions formed their reactions in the face of the financial crisis unravels throughout the book.