Author: Daniel J. Elazar
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: constitutionalism
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1990-07-24
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 0819177989
ISBN-13: 9780819177988

In Israel today there is increasingly vigorous support for the framing of a constitution. At the same time there is almost no recognition that in forty years Israel has acquired an almost complete set of basic laws that form a constitution. The aims of this volume are threefold: to inform the Israeli public and the world as to what exists and consider what still is needed in the way of a constitution; to enter constitutionalism firmly on the Israeli public agenda; and to learn from the American experience. The author shows that Israel’s constitution is more than anything else a modern ad

Author: Georg Nolte
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: constitutionalism, european
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2005-11-14
List price: $115.99
ISBN-10: 0521854016
ISBN-13: 9780521854016

European constitutionalism is not merely an intra-European phenomenon but can also be compared to other major forms of constitutionalism. Over the past decade or so issues have emerged which seem to indicate that European constitutional theory and practice is becoming aware that it has developed certain rules and possesses certain characteristics which distinguish it from US constitutionalism and vice versa. The contributors to this book are constitutional scholars from Europe and the United States as well as from other constitutional states, such as Canada, Israel, Japan, Peru and South Afric

Author: Stephen M. Griffin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: constitutionalism, american
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1998-07-27
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 0691002401
ISBN-13: 9780691002408

Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to American constitutional theory in the form of a short, lucid introduction to the subject for scholars and an informed lay audience. He surveys in an unpolemical way the theoretical issues raised by judicial practice in the United States over the past three centuries, particularly since the Warren Court, and locates both theory and practices that have inspired dispute among jurists and scholars in

Author: Andrew C. McLaughlin
Publisher: Lawbook Exchange Ltd
Keywords: constitutionalism, american, foundations
Published: 2002-12
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 1584772271
ISBN-13: 9781584772279

McLaughlin, Andrew C. The Foundations of American Constitutionalism. New York: The New York University Press, 1932. vii, 176 pp. Reprinted 2002 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-227-1. Cloth. $65. An historian with a legal background, McLaughlin [1861-1947] traces the principles of justice embodied by the United States Constitution to the influence of colonial New England political philosophy and Puritan practices and ideals of personal rights and limited government. A reprint of the Anson G. Phelps Lectures on Early American History delivered at New York University in 1932.

Author: Herman Belz
Publisher: The Heritage Foundation
Keywords: america, law, rule, constitutionalism
Number of Pages: 85
Published: 2009-03-09
List price: $7.00
ISBN-10: 0891951326
ISBN-13: 9780891951322

The rule of law may be the most significant and influential accomplishment of Western political thought. Nowhere expressed yet evident throughout, the United States Constitution depends on this bedrock concept, the first principle on which the American legal and political system was built. The design, forms, and institutions of that system what is called the constitutionalism of the American Founders define the necessary conditions of the rule of law and limited government, and hence liberty. Made up of the various structural concepts embodied in the Constitution of the United States, con

Author: Ran Hirschl
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: new, constitutionalism, consequences, origins, juristocracy, towards
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 067401264X
ISBN-13: 9780674012646

In countries and supranational entities around the globe, constitutional reform has transferred an unprecedented amount of power from representative institutions to judiciaries. The constitutionalization of rights and the establishment of judicial review are widely believed to have benevolent and progressive origins, and significant redistributive, power-diffusing consequences. Ran Hirschl challenges this conventional wisdom. Drawing upon a comprehensive comparative inquiry into the political origins and legal consequences of the recent constitutional revolutions in Canada, Israel, New Z

Authors:J. H. H. Weiler, Marlene Wind,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: state, constitutionalism, european
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2003-10-27
List price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 0521796717
ISBN-13: 9780521796712

Some of the most innovative scholars in the field of European constitutionalism highlight different facets of the new constitutional discussion. Provoking deep analysis of the different ideas of constitution and constitutionalism, their study delineates new ways of thinking about the future of Europe. In particular, it challenges the European Union as an evolving federal polity. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the subject of constitutionalism, students as well as professionals in law, politics and philosophy.Book DescriptionSome of the most innovative scholars in the field of Eur