The language of liberal constitutionalism自由主义宪政原则语言

分類: 图书,进口原版书,人文社科 Non Fiction ,
作者: Howard Schweber著
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出版时间: 2007-2-1字数:版次: 1页数: 386印刷时间: 2007/02/01开本: 16开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780521861328包装: 精装内容简介
This book explores two basic questions regarding constitutional theory. Firstly, how is the creation of a legitimate constitutional regime possible? Second, what must be true about a constitution if the regime that it supports is to retain its claim to legitimacy?
作者简介
Howard Schweber is associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin,Madison. He is the author of The Creation of American Common Law,1850-1880 and Speech,Conduct,and the First Amendment,as well as book chapters and articles in journals such as Law and History Review,Law and Society Review,and Studies in American Political Development.
目录
Introduction
1 The Search for Sovereignty: Law, Language, and the Beginnings of Modern Constitutionalism
2 Consent How? Challenges to Lockean Constitutionalism
3 Constitutional Language and the Possibility of Binding Commitments
4 Consent to What? Exclusivity and Completeness in Constitutional and Legal Language
5 The Question of Substance: Morality, Law, and Constitutional Legitimacy
6 The Defense of Constitutional Language
Bibliography
Index