Constitutional Identity / / Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn.
In Constitutional Identity, Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn argues that a constitution acquires an identity through experience—from a mix of the political aspirations and commitments that express a nation’s past and the desire to transcend that past. It is changeable but resistant to its own destruction, and...
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (388 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: The Disharmonic Constitution
- 2. The Conundrum of the Unconstitutional Constitution
- 3. The Quest for a Compelling Unity
- 4. The Permeability of Constitutional Borders
- 5. The Sounds of Silence: Militant and Acquiescent Constitutionalism
- 6. “The First Page of the Constitution”: Family, State, and Identity
- 7. Conclusion
- Index