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CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE
Antoni Abat I Ninet
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Description for CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE
Paperback. Almost every state in the world has a written constitution. But is a constitution the best device to rule a country? The author argues that human rights and democracy must strive to deactivate the 'invisible' but very real violence embedded in our seemingly sacrosanct constitutions. He challenges the legitimacy of constitutional systems. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: LNDC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 324.
If constitutional legitimacy is based on violence, what does this mean for democracy? Almost every state in the world has a written constitution and, for the great majority, the constitution is the law that controls the organs of the state. But is a constitution the best device to rule a country? Western political systems tend to be 'constitutional democracies', dividing the system into a domain of politics, where the people rule, and a domain of law, set aside for a trained elite. Legal, political and constitutional practices demonstrate that constitutionalism and democracy seem to be irreconcilable. Antoni Abat i Ninet ... Read more
If constitutional legitimacy is based on violence, what does this mean for democracy? Almost every state in the world has a written constitution and, for the great majority, the constitution is the law that controls the organs of the state. But is a constitution the best device to rule a country? Western political systems tend to be 'constitutional democracies', dividing the system into a domain of politics, where the people rule, and a domain of law, set aside for a trained elite. Legal, political and constitutional practices demonstrate that constitutionalism and democracy seem to be irreconcilable. Antoni Abat i Ninet ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748675388
SKU
V9780748675388
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About Antoni Abat I Ninet
Antoni Abat i Ninet is Professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law at the ESADE Law School at the University Ramon Llull, Barcelona.
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