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Principles of constitutional design / Donald S. Lutz.
- 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
- 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