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Civic Constitutionalism, The Second Amendment, And The Right Of Revolution, David C. Williams
Civic Constitutionalism, The Second Amendment, And The Right Of Revolution, David C. Williams
Indiana Law Journal
Indiana University Distinguished Faculty Research Lecture. April 23, 2003.
Toward A New Constitutional Anatomy, Victoria Nourse
Toward A New Constitutional Anatomy, Victoria Nourse
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
There is an important sense in which our Constitution's structure is not what it appears to be--a set of activities or functions or geographies, the 'judicial" or the "executive" or the "legislative" power, the "truly local and the truly national. "Indeed, it is only if we put these notions to the side that we can come to grips with the importance of the generative provisions of the Constitution: the provisions that actually create our federal government; that bind citizens, through voting, to a House of Representatives, to a Senate, to a President, and even, indirectly, to a Supreme Court. In …
The Political Origins Of The New Constitutionalism, Ran Hirschl
The Political Origins Of The New Constitutionalism, Ran Hirschl
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Globalization, Courts, and Judicial Power Symposium
Constitutionalism And Shari'a, Nadirsyah Hosen
Constitutionalism And Shari'a, Nadirsyah Hosen
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Constitutionalism is the idea that government can and should be legally limited in its powers, and that its authority depends on enforcing these limitations. Lane explains that two ideas are basic to constitutionalism: (a) the limitation of the state versus society in the form of respect for a set of human rights covering not only civic rights but also political and economic rights; and (b) the implementation of separation of powers within the state.