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From parchment to practice : implementing new constitutions /

"This book concerns a set of problems that arise from the distinctive conceptual and practical tension in the first period after a new constitution has been adopted. We shall argue that at a very general level, a new constitution must manage a balance or tension between two forces. These are as...

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Corporate Authors: From Parchment to Practice: Implementing New Constitutions Conference University of Chicago Law School; University of Chicago. Law School
Group Author: Ginsburg, Tom; Huq, Aziz Z
Published: Cambridge University Press,
Publisher Address: Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Publication Dates: 2020.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Comparative constitutional law and policy
Subjects:
Constitutional law > Congresses
New democracies > Congresses
Constitutional law
New democracies
Conference papers and proceedings
Summary: "This book concerns a set of problems that arise from the distinctive conceptual and practical tension in the first period after a new constitution has been adopted. We shall argue that at a very general level, a new constitution must manage a balance or tension between two forces. These are aspirations for transformation and demands for preservation through entrenchment. The first period, as we will elaborate, is the conceptual, temporal, and institutional bridge between the past and future. It is the moment when the transformative and the preservative vectors of constitutional design can c
Carrier Form: xiv, 309 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781108738026 (paperback) :
1108738028 (paperback)
9781108487733 (hardcover)
1108487734 (hardcover)
9781108767859 (electronic book)
1108767850 (electronic book)
Index Number: K3165
CLC: D911-532
Call Number: D911-532/F931/2017
Contents: Introduction : The First-Period Problem of Constitutional Implementation / Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z. Huq -- Looking "Backward" or "Forward" to American Constitutional Development : -- Reflections on Constitutional "Endurance" and "Adaptation" in the "First Republic" / Sanford Levinson -- Marking Constitutional Transitions : The Law and Politics of Constitutional -- Implementation in South Africa / Rosalind Dixon and Theunis Roux -- India's First Period : Constitutional Doctrine and Constitutional Stability / -- Madhav Khosla -- Two Steps "Forward", One Step "Back"? : Transformation and Correc

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