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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Walter F Murphy |
ISBN: | 0801884705 9780801884702 9780801891076 0801891078 |
OCLC Number: | 63703803 |
Awards: | Winner of PROSE Award for Best Book in Social Sciences 2007 (United States) Winner of PROSE Award for Best Book in Anthropology, Criminology, and Sociology 2007 (United States) |
Description: | xviii, 547 pages ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Creating a constitutional democracy. Values, interest, and goals -- Alternative political systems -- Alternative political systems : the debate -- The possibility of constitutional democracy -- To draft or not to draft a constitutional text -- Drafting I : the shape of the constitution -- Drafting 2 : the judiciary -- Drafting 3 : A bill of rights -- Drafting 4 : special cases -- Maintaining a constitutional democracy. Creating citizens -- Military and security forces -- Rebuilding the machinery of state : the bureaucracies -- Dealing with deposed despots -- Constitutional interpretation as constitutional maintenance -- Constitutional change and its limits. |
Series Title: | Johns Hopkins series in constitutional thought. |
Responsibility: | Walter F. Murphy. |
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This is a significant, impressive work of constitutional theory in its largest and most important sense. Choice 2007 The phrase 'instant classic' may be an oxymoron, but if it can be fairly applied to any recent work in the field of constitutional theory, this is the one. -- Jack Wade Nowlin, Jessie D. Puckett Jr. Law and Politics Book Review 2007 Constitutional Democracy is an extraordinarily ambitious book, taking as its model nothing less than Aristotle's Politics. -- George Thomas Claremont Review of Books 2007 This fine book brings to bear Walter Murphy's manifold gifts: breadth of knowledge about political systems around the world and throughout history, keen critical learning about ancient and modern political thought, deep understanding of constitutional law, and a clear and clever style. -- Ralph Ketcham Perspectives on Politics 2008 In this magnum opus, Walter Murphy tells [the] story with all the erudition and skill that he has gathered in a lifetime of the study of political systems. Journal of the Commonwealth Lawyers' Association 2007 Read more...


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