A Sociology of Constitutions: Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective

Administrative / Constitutional Law

A Sociology of Constitutions Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective

By Chris Thornhill
Cambridge University Press July 2011

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ISBN-13
9780521116213
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
July 2011
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

Contents:
1. Medieval constitutions
2. Constitutions and early modernity
3. States, rights and the revolutionary form of power
4. Constitutions from Empire to Fascism
5. Constitutions and democratic transitions.
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