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Le Parlement écossais et la démocratie participative
E-REA, 2009 The Scottish Parliament and participative democracyThe Scottish Parliament set up in 1999 was designed to embody a new model of governance. Indeed the Constitutional Steering Group on the Scottish Parliament set up in November 1997 by the then Secretary ...
Annie THIEC
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Difficulties in Understanding the Autonomy of Science: Consequences of State Sovereignty [PDF]
, 2016 The importance of the autonomy of science is generally assumed to be good for the proper functioning of science. Yet, when we examine the notion more closely, various difficulties present themselves and cloud our understanding of this important ...
Musielewicz, Michael P.
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Human Rights and Biopolitics between Sovereign Power, Domination and Genealogies [PDF]
, 2017 In Homo Sacer Agamben proposes a vision of politics as biopolitics since its Greek origins. While this new awareness becomes the conceptual domain in which re-interpret some political categories, at the same time it shows how sovereign power, in this ...
Castellani, Domenico
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Boletim IBCCRIMThe Court of Jury in Brazil judges intentional crimes against life, with the popular participation of jurors. It must balance the sovereignty of verdicts and the presumption of innocence, ensuring a fair trial.
Arthur Phillipe Milanez Santa Cecília
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Sovereign Authority and the Limits of Constitutional Democracy
Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2018 The victory of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in the Canadian federal election of 2015 brought with it hopes for meaningful change in the relationship between indigenous peoples and settler-Canadian society, with “reconciliation” a prominent feature of the ...
Trevor Allen Purvis
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The Judicial Duty to Scrutinize Legislation [PDF]
, 2014 The Declaration of Independence famously declared, “[w]e hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of ...
Barnett, Randy E
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La soberanía nacional en la constitución de Cádiz
Revista de Derecho Político, 2011 En este trabajo se hace un cotejo entre el principio de soberanía nacional, propio del constitucionalismo (no de las llamadas «Constituciones» o «Leyes Fundamentales» del Antiguo Régimen) y la primera Constitución española, de1812.
Antonio Torres Del Moral
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The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The 2024 UK general election saw candidates make frequent rhetorical references to parents and grandparents. But what are the political functions and implications of such references? Drawing together recent research in political psychology and sociology, this article interprets such references as attempts to articulate ‘vicarious identities ...
Joseph Haigh
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Imagined ideologies: Populist figures, liberalist projections, and the horizons of constitutionalism
German Law Journal, 2019 Most contemporary constitutionalists exhibit a highly critical attitude toward populism, seeing it as one of the main reasons for the “erosion” of liberal democratic institutions in a growing number of countries around the world.
Zoran Oklopcic
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The Erosion of Constitutionalism via Constitutional Entrepreneurship: Lessons from Slovakia
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The 2023 Slovak general election resulted in an illiberal coalition keen to transform the political regime following its Hungarian neighbour's post‐2010 example. Using the Slovak case, this article shows the key role of political party leaders’ constitutional entrepreneurship in the erosion of constitutionalism. Constitutional entrepreneurship
Darina Malová, Max Steuer
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