Constitutional Violence : : Legitimacy, Democracy and Human Rights / / Antoni Abat i Ninet.
If constitutional legitimacy is based on violence, what does this mean for democracy?Almost every state in the world has a written constitution and, for the great majority, the constitution is the law that controls the organs of the state. But is a constitution the best device to rule a country?West...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Sovereignty and Constitution
- 3 Democracy
- 4 Legal Violence
- 5 Comparing Constitutional Violence
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index