Research Catalog

Title

Principles of constitutional design / Donald S. Lutz.

Author

Lutz, Donald S.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

xiv, 261 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "This book is written for anyone anywhere sitting down to write a constitution. The book is designed to be educative even for those not engaged directly in constitutional design but who would like to come to a better understanding of the nature and problems of constitutionalism and its fundamental building blocks - especially popular sovereignty and the separation of powers. Rather than being a "how-to" book that explains what to do in the sense of where one should end up, it instead explains where to begin - how to go about thinking about constitutions and constitutional design before sitting down to write anything.
• Still, it is possible, using the detailed indexes found in the book, to determine the level of popular sovereignty one has designed into a proposed constitution and how to balance with an approximate, appropriate level of separation of powers to enhance long-term stability."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Constitutions
• constitutions
• Sovereignty
• Separation of powers
• Comparative government

Genre/Form

• constitutions.
• Constitutions
• Constitutions.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Constitutionalism : an initial overview and introduction -- Sovereignty -- Popular sovereignty -- The separation of powers -- Analyzing the interaction between popular control and the separation of powers in the amendment process -- Matching a government to a people -- An overview of the constitutional design project -- An underlying constitutional logic : rational actors?.

ISBN

• 0521861683 (hardback)
• 9780521861687

LCCN

^^2005037370

OCLC

• 62872456
• SCSB-10147835

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library