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The Confines of Modern Constitutionalism [PDF]
, 2004 [Excerpt] Constitutionalism is an ambiguous concept, or at least the term is used in ambiguous ways. Virtually every political theorist of the modern period, certainly during the last two hundred years or more, has used the concept of a political ...
Butleritchie, David T.
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Rethinking (Eco)Feminist Constitutionalism
AthenaThis article focuses on the developments of liberal constitutionalism vis a vis the challenges posed by feminist and ecofeminist constitutionalism. First, it explores the insufficiencies of contemporary constitutionalism for fully incorporating the ...
Silvina Alvarez Medina
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The constitutional dimension of the European Union budgetary power
Estudios de Deusto, 2014 In the context of the debate on the changes that contemporary constitutionalism is experiencing, a prominent place is occupied by the extension of constitutionalism to sociopolitical realities that go beyond the state.
Antonio-Martín Porras Gómez
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The Cambridge handbook of deliberative constitutionalism
, 2018 Deliberative democratic theory emphasises the importance of informed and reflective discussion and persuasion in political decision-making. The theory has important implications for constitutionalism - and vice versa - as constitutional laws increasingly
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Political Constitutionalism and Legal Constitutionalism—an Imaginary Opposition?
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2020 Abstract This article argues that the opposition between political and legal constitutionalism can be traced to a cleavage in what philosophers have called the ‘social imaginary’: the shared understandings that underpin social life. Since social imaginary understandings are by their nature nebulous and ill-defined, political and legal ...
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Prospects for Constitutionalization of the WTO [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 AbstractThis paper seeks to evaluate the prospects for constitutional reform of the WTO by drawing on the broader literature on constitutionalization. In particular, it argues that constitutionalization implies a coherent civil society, linked to the constitutionalized entity via democratic politics.
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Views from the East: changing attitudes to Venice in late Byzantium
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the changing attitudes towards Venice in late Byzantine texts. It argues that, along with the strengthening of political and cultural ties between Byzantium and Venice, the Byzantines' perspectives evolved from rejection to admiration. As scholars like Demetrios Kydones and Manuel Chrysoloras began to teach Greek in Venice,
Florin Leonte
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Constitutionalism, Division of Power and Transaction Costs [PDF]
According to many democracy theorists, there is an unavoidable trade-off between constitutionalism and the need for political action. This paper criticizes that belief.
Berggren, Niclas, Karlson, Nils
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Judicial review, reasons and technology: a glance at constitutionalism and democracy [PDF]
, 2012 Judicial review reflects the level of commitment between constitutionalism and democracy in contemporary States. Yet democracy as the sovereign government of the people implies a tension with constitutionalism as the rule of law.
Karam de Chueiri, Vera
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