Modern constitutions / edited by Rogers M. Smith and Richard R. Beeman.
"In this volume, scholars from different disciplines specializing in different parts of the world provide discussions that exhibit many of the answers that modern constitution-makers have given and are giving to most if not all of the following questions in their varied settings. First, who has...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Democracy, citizenship, and constitutionalism.
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Table of Contents:
- Is the influence of the U.S. Constitution declining? / David S. Law and Mila Versteeg
- Is the U.S. Constitution sufficiently democratic? : how would we know and do we really care? / Sanford Levinson
- State constitutional details and America's positive rights / Emily Zackin
- Dignity, rights, and the comparative method / Christopher McCrudden
- Beyond window dressing : constitutions in authoritarian regimes / Tom Ginsburg
- Unconstitutional constituent power / Kim Lane Scheppele
- Communist federations / Valerie Bunce
- Constitutional moments and the paradox of constitutionalism in multinational democracies (Spain, 2006-2019) / Jaime Lluch
- Constituting the state in postcolonial Africa : fifty years of constitution-making toward an African constitutionalism / Heinz Klug.