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Abstract Constituent assemblies traditionally play a central role in processes of constitution-making, serving as the main actors in drafting new constitutions and the primary sites for deliberating on their content. To perform this role, assemblies have taken various forms and functions, which point to different paradigms and views ...
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The Constituent Assembly in Russia
1992At five minutes past four o’clock on the morning of January 19, 1918, while President Chernov of the first Russian Constituent Assembly1 was reading aloud the project of fundamental principles of the agrarian law, a sailor stepped up to the tribune and touched him on the shoulder.
Eric Homberger, John Biggart
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2017
Under what circumstances do new constitutions improve a nation's level of democracy? Between 1974 and 2014, democracy increased in 77 countries following the adoption of a new constitution, but it decreased or stayed the same in 47 others. This book demonstrates that increased participation in the forming of constitutions positively impacts ...
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Under what circumstances do new constitutions improve a nation's level of democracy? Between 1974 and 2014, democracy increased in 77 countries following the adoption of a new constitution, but it decreased or stayed the same in 47 others. This book demonstrates that increased participation in the forming of constitutions positively impacts ...
Todd A. Eisenstadt +2 more
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Legislatures as Constituent Assemblies
2006Constitutions regulate legislatures, and legislatures sometimes create constitutions. Does it follow that in such cases, legislatures engage in acts of self-binding? Or that they use the constitutions to bind others , to enhance their own freedom of action?
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