Format:
XIII, 451 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource Cambridge books online
ISBN:
052111621X
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9781107610569
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9780521116213
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9780511895067
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128334176X
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9781139103176
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in law and society
Content:
Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to recent processes of constitutional transition. A Sociology of Constitutions explores the reasons why modern societies require constitutions and constitutional norms and presents a distinctive socio-normative analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; A SOCIOLOGY OF CONSTITUTIONS; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; A NOTE ON TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS; Introduction; Why a sociology of constitutions?; What is a constitution?; A note on method and central concepts; 1 Medieval constitutions; The social origins of modern constitutions; Legal order in the church; Church law, the state and feudal transformation; Patterns of early statehood; Law and feudal transformation I: the Holy Roman Empire; Law and feudal transformation II: Italian city-states between church and Empire
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Law and feudal transformation III: the consolidation of central monarchyConstitutions and the formation of early states; Early states and constitutions; Italian city-states; The Holy Roman Empire; The central monarchies; 2 Constitutions and early modernity; Constitutions and the rule of law at the end of the Middle Ages; The Reformation and the differentiation of state power; Positive law and the idea of the constitution; Constitutions and fundamental law; Early modern constitutional conflicts; The constitution of absolutism; Spain; France; Prussia and smaller states
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Early classical constitutionalismSweden; The Dutch Republic; England; The constitution and the function of constitutional rights; 3 States, rights and the revolutionary form of power; Constitutional crisis and failed state formation; Poland and Sweden; Prussia and smaller German states; France; Constitutional revolutions and the form of political power; Rights revolutions; The American constitutions; The French constitutions; After the rights revolutions I: the Bonapartist temptation; After the rights revolutions II: monarchy limited and intensified; Restoration France; Spain; German states
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BritainConstitutions and social design: 1848; France: popular democracy; Greece, Belgium, Hungary and the early Risorgimento; Germany; 4 Constitutions from empire to fascism; Constitutions after 1848; Constitutions in the imperial era; Italy; Germany; Spain; Russia; France; Britain; The First World War and the tragedy of the modern state; The transformation of statehood 1914-1918; The transformation of statehood after 1918; The failure of expansive democracy; Italy; Austria and Portugal; Germany; Rights and the Constitution of Fascism; Italy; Portugal and Spain; Germany
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5 Constitutions and democratic transitionsThe first wave of transition: constitutional re-foundation after 1945; Italy; Federal Republic of Germany; The second wave of transition: constitutional re-foundation in the 1970s; Portugal; Spain; The third wave of transition: constitutional transformation in the 1990s; Poland; Russia; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780511895067
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521116213
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Thornhill, Christopher J., 1966 - A sociology of constitutions Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, 2011 ISBN 052111621X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521116213
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
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Sociology
Keywords:
Verfassungsrecht
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Geschichte
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511895067
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Author information:
Thornhill, Christopher J. 1966-
