A Sociology of Constitutions: Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective
Chris Thornhill
Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to recent processes of constitutional transition. A Sociology of Constitutions explores the reasons why modern societies require constitutions and constitutional norms and presents a distinctive socio-normative analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy.
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Yıl:
2011
Yayımcı:
Cambridge University Press
Dil:
english
Sayfalar:
468
ISBN 10:
052111621X
ISBN 13:
9780521116213
Seriler:
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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english, 2011