Democracy and legal change
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Published: |
Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge [England] New York |
Publication Dates: | 2007. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 228 p.: ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780521866521 (hardback) 0521866529 (hardback) |
Index Number: | D909 |
CLC: | D909.9 |
Call Number: | D909.9/S399 |
Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index. Introduction : explaining legal change and entrenchment -- Innovation and democracy : legal change in ancient Athens -- Legislation and law reform in seventeenth-century England -- Fallibility and foundations in the U.S. Constitution -- Protecting democracy and dignity in Postwar Germany -- Conclusion : defending democracy against entrenchment. |