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A SOCIOLOGY OF CONSTITUTIONS
CONSTITUTIONS AND STATE LEGITIMACY IN HISTORICAL-SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE |
| By: |
Chris Thornhill |
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| ISBN 10: |
1107610567 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781107610569 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
29 November, 2012 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society |
| Pages: |
466 |
| Description: |
Chris Thornhill examines the legitimating role of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents in medieval Europe to recent constitutional transitions. |
| Synopsis: |
Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to recent processes of constitutional transition. A Sociology of Constitutions explores the reasons why modern societies require constitutions and constitutional norms and presents a distinctive socio-normative analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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