What Should Constitutions Do? / edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr, Jeffrey Paul.
Material type: TextSeries: Social Philosophy and Policy | Social Philosophy and PolicyPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: 1 online resource (354 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781139151528 (ebook)
- 342.0201 22
- K3165 .W435 2010
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The essays in this volume - written by prominent philosophers, political scientists and legal scholars - address the basic purposes of constitutions and their status as fundamental law. Some deal with specific constitutional provisions: they ask, for example, which branches of government should have the authority to conduct foreign policy, or how the judiciary should be organized, or what role a preamble should play in a nation's founding document. Other essays explore questions of constitutional design: they consider the advantages of a federal system of government, or the challenges of designing a constitution for a pluralistic society - or they ask what form of constitution best promotes personal liberty and economic prosperity.
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