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Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Constitution
2016The Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Constitution covers the Founding of the American Republic and the Framers, the drafting of the Constitution, constitutional debates over ratification, and traces key events, Supreme Court chief justices, amendments, and Supreme Court cases regarding the interpretation of the Constitution from 1789-2016.
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The English Historical Constitution
2007The fundamental legal and institutional changes of recent decades have brought the English constitution into question. Accompanying issues have been the extent to which its traditional character and main features have been changed, lost their former appeal and retained their distinctness in the European Union.
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The New Constitution of Hungary: Historical Narratives and Constitutional Identity
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012The new Hungarian Constitution manifestly strives for constituting a new constitutional identity, which does not reflect only aspirations to eliminate the traces of the communist constitution, in fact, it includes the suppression of republican tradition, in general. This has resulted in the voluntaristic exclusion of that particular historical identity
Péter Apor, Péter Sólyom
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State Constitutions in Historical Perspective
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1988Scholars have tended to neglect the history of state constitutions, though these are interesting in themselves and also shed light on federal developments. State constitutions have tended, on the whole, to be less durable and to contain more superlegislation than the U.S. Constitution. Early state constitutions provided for a weak executive.
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Visions of Cádiz: The Constitution of 1812 in historical and constitutional thought
2010This chapter examines ways the Spanish Constitution of 1812, also known as the Constitution of Cadiz, has been viewed in historical and constitutional thought. The document is a liberal constitution establishing constitutional rights, a representative government, and a parliamentary monarchy.
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The Constitution and Historical Rupture
This essay is a response for a symposium on my book, <i>Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique</i>. It responds to criticisms made against it while further developing the book's central themes. <br><br>It contends that the problem of historical rupture—that the eighteenth-century U.S.openaire +1 more source
The historical background of the Soviet constitutions.
1963Mladenovic, M. (Supervisor)
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