Constitutional Moments : : Founding Myths, Charters and Constitutions Through History.

• Superior document: History of European Political and Constitutional Thought Series ; v.11
• Author: Gil, Xavier.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: History of European Political and Constitutional Thought Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (541 pages)

Under the term "constitutional moments", this volume identifies occasions from Ancient Greece to the present day when writers or politicians took significant steps towards the definition or redefinition of polities, thus showing a revealing variety of constitutional thinking and action.

Table of Contents

Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Ancient and Medieval Times -- Chapter 1 The Critic of the Family (oikos) at the Foundations of Plato's Political Doctrine: Myth and Reality -- 1 The Context -- 2 Plato's Political Thought -- 2.1 The Republic -- 2.2 The Laws -- 3 Assessment -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 The Influence of Roman Law on Medieval Bulgarian Legislation: Sources and Developments of the Main Constitutional Issues -- 1 Legislation in the First and the Second Bulgarian Tsardom -- 2 Governance and Institutions -- 2.1 On the Byzantine Sources -- 2.2 Institutions of the First and the Second Bulgarian Empire -- 3 The Law in Mediaeval Bulgaria-Revisited -- 3.1 Criminal Law-General Characteristics and Types of Crime -- 3.1.1 Crimes against State and Faith -- 3.1.2 Crimes against Bodily Integrity, Honour and Personal Freedom -- 3.2 Courts of Law, Trial, Forensic Evidence, and Types of Punishment -- Bibliography -- Part 2 Renaissance and Early Modern Era -- Section 1 Myths and Politics -- Chapter 3 Biscay in the Spanish Monarchy: Myth, History, and Law in the Making of Its Constitutional Regime (14th to 17th Centuries) -- 1 Introduction: Oath and Allegiance in Francisco Vázquez de Mendieta's Painting -- 2 The Jurisdictional Composition of Biscay -- 2.1 Biscay, a Small Member of the Spanish Monarchy -- 2.2 The Land: the Duality between the Open Land (Tierra Llana) and the Burghs (Villas) -- 2.3 The Three Jurisdictional Areas of Biscay and the Rest of the Basque Country -- 3 The Law -- 4 The Role of Myths and Legends in the Status of Biscay in the Spanish Monarchy -- 5 The Role of Historians, Lawyers, Advisors and Consultores: the Capitulaciones as the Constitutional Body of Biscay.

6 The Legend Revisited: Esteban de Garibay and Andrés de Poza (End of the Sixteenth Century) -- 7 The Biscayen Story Inside the Spanish Larger Narrative -- 8 The Attack against the Fuero and the Victory of Biscay (1588-1590) -- 9 Biscayen Legal Doctrine in the 18th Century: the 'Escudo de la más constante fe y lealtad' -- 10 The Reception of Biscayen Theories in Catalonia and in Europe -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 The Myth of Sobrarbe between Old Europe and the New World: A Reassessment -- 1 Introduction -- 2 "Ad perpetuam rei memoriam" -- 3 Lex Regia and Mixed Government -- 4 Sobrarbe, Navarre and Aragon in the New World -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Law, Wisdom, and Politics in Making Süleyman "The Lawgiver" -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Problems of Terminology: fiqh and Shari'ah -- 3 Other Participants: Fermans, Fetwas, and Pre-ottoman Legislation -- 4 "Süleymanic" Law and Order -- 5 Solomon in Islamic Tradition -- 6 The Legacy of Solomon during the Reign of Sultan Süleyman -- 7 Süleyman as a Prophet-Like Sultan in Legal Texts -- 8 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Section 2 Governance and Change -- Chapter 6 After Revolts: Moments for Constitutional Refashioning in Early Modern Europe -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Accommodatio in the Jesuit Constitutions -- 1 Spiritual, Humanistic and Global Aspects of Jesuit Adaptability -- 2 Accommodatio in the Jesuit Constitutions -- 3 Jesuit Critics of the Constitutions -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 The Monarchical Moment: Constitutionalism, Lutheran Political Thought, and the Rise of Danish Absolutism -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 A Model Republican Constitution? Guicciardini vs. Machiavelli on the Roman Example -- 1 Guicciardini and Machiavelli's Choice -- 2 Against Roman Tumults -- 3 Use of Historical Examples -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography.

Chapter 10 The Union of Utrecht: An Unfinished Constitutional Definition between Federalism and Particularism in the Low Countries (1579-1621) -- 1 In Search of a Constitution for the Republic -- 2 The Union of Utrecht: between Myth and Historical Reality -- 3 Contradiction as a Foundation of the Model? Provinces, Generality and the Problem of Sovereignty -- 4 From Theory to Practice: the Union of Utrecht and Holland's Hegemony (1588-1616) -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part 3 The Enlightenment -- Chapter 11 Ancient Constitutionalism in the Age of Enlightenment: The Case of Denmark-Norway -- 1 Absolutism and Ancient Constitutionalism in Denmark-Norway -- 2 Molesworth, Montesquieu, and Mallet -- 3 European Feudalism and Northern Allodial Liberty: Tyge Rothe -- 4 Ancient Constitutionalism and Reforms of the Danish Manorial Economy -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 12 Rousseau and Poland: Pragmatic Rebirth Rather than Idealistic Reforms? -- 1 History of Poland -- 2 Liberum Veto -- 3 Confederations -- 4 Intellectual Culture, Rousseau, and Poland -- 5 An Inappropriate People -- 6 A Polish People -- 6.1 The Problem -- 6.2 National Character -- 6.3 Public Education -- 6.4 Polish Freedom -- 7 Conclusion: Constitutions and Founding Myths -- Bibliography -- Chapter 13 The Lawgiver in Eighteenth-Century Neapolitan Political Thought: Charting Mediterranean Liberalism -- 1 Doria (1167-1746), Lycurgus and the Revision of Republican Tradition -- 2 Antonio Genovesi (1713-1769): the Foundations of Neapolitan Political Economy -- 3 Gaetano Filangieri (1753-1788) and the Scienza Della Legislazione -- 4 Cadiz's Constitution: the Elements of a New Narrative -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Chapter 14 From Masterpiece of Modern Legislation to an Aristocratic Oligarchy: Contemporary European Appraisals of the Swedish Constitution of the Age of Liberty (1719-1772) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Masterpiece of Modern Legislation: between Limited Monarchy and Aristocratic Republic -- 3 Aristocratic Yoke -- 4 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part 4 The Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 15 "Dark Spots of Our History": Martínez Marina and Foundational Myths in Eighteenth-Century Spain -- Bibliography -- Chapter 16 The Metamorphoses of a Historical Constitution: Longue durée Developments in Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Constitutional and Political Thought -- 1 Overview of the "Long Nineteenth Century" in Hungary -- 2 The Historical Constitution of the Hungarian Kingdom -- 3 Reasons behind the Constitutional Reform Efforts (1790-1848) -- 4 The Long Road to the Austro-Hungarian Settlement (1790-1867) -- 5 The 1867 Settlement -- 6 1918/1919 and the Constitution -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 17 Constitutional Imagination and "Catholic" Political Anthropology: The Grammar of the Mixed Constitution in the Mid-19th Century Crisis of Spanish Liberalism -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Struggle between Constituent Powers and the Role of Monarchy -- 3 The Meaning of Democracy in the 1854-56 Parliamentary Debates -- 4 The Changing Perception of Aristocracy -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part 5 The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- Chapter 18 The Weimar Constitutional Moment: Constitutionalism, Theoretical Debate and Political Conflict -- 1 Introduction: Weimar as a Model of Political-Constitutional Conflict -- 2 The Main Problems of Contemporary Weimar Reception -- 3 The Discursive Structure -- 4 Argumentation Strategies -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Chapter 19 The Portuguese Estado Novo Constitutional Process as a Model for Transitioning to Authoritarianism in the Europe of the New Order -- 1 A Short Political-Constitutional Radiography of Interwar Europe -- 2 The New State Constitutional Process (1931-1933) -- 3 Salazar's Constitutional Notes -- 4 The First Draft -- 5 The Second Draft -- 6 The Final Version -- 7 Conclusions -- Bibliopgraphy -- Chapter 20 The Framing of a Liberal Democratic Constitution in Post-War Western Germany -- 1 From the Potsdam Conference to the Grundgesetz -- 2 Competing Models of Democracy -- 3 The London Conferences and the Frankfurt Documents -- 4 Herrenchiemsee -- 5 The Weimar Heritage -- 6 Aspects of the Basic Law -- 7 Amendments -- 8 The Volk or People in the Basic Law and Limits to the Constituent People -- 9 Organs and Legislative Procedure -- 10 The Basic Law and Direct Democracy -- 11 The Double Provisional and Eternal Nature of the Basic Law -- Bibliography -- Chapter 21 From 1989 to 2010: Founding Myths and Moments of the Liberal and the Illiberal Constitutional Revolutions in Hungary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The 1989 Liberal Constitution -- 3 The 2011 Illiberal Constitution -- 4 Illiberalism and the Emergence of a New Political Community: the System of National Cooperation -- 5 Illiberalism and the System of National Cooperation -- 6 Illiberal Democracy as Constitutional Identity -- 7 Concluding Thoughts -- Bibliography -- Part 6 Theoretical Issues -- Chapter 22 An Unbroken Continuity? Constitutional Crises and Historical Imagination -- 1 Paradoxes of Modernity -- 2 Continuity at All Costs -- 3 Mutatio Constitutionis -- 4 Creative Destruction -- 5 Like Lightning that Tears Open the Sky -- 6 Closing Thoughts -- Bibliography -- Chapter 23 The Dirty Secret of New Beginnings: Founding a Democracy between Nothing and Narration.

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