An historical introduction to western constitutional law / R.C. van Caenegem.
The constitutional question is of paramount importance in the political and nationalist agenda of late twentieth-century Europe. Arguments focus on the best form of constitutional organization: democracy versus autocracy, unitary versus federal organization, pluralism versus intolerance, centralism...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Tribal kingship: from the fall of Rome to the end of the Merovingians
- 3. The First Europe: the Carolingian empire
- 4. Europe divided: the post-Carolingian era
- 5. The foundation of the modern state
- 6. The classic absolutism of the Ancient Regime
- 7. The absolute state no lasting model
- 8. The bourgeois nation state
- 9. The liberal model transformed or rejected.