International Law

Coups d’état, Revolutions and the Question of Legitimacy

By Lawrence A. Joseph
Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing August 2016

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780854902132
Publisher
Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing
Publication
August 2016
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This book sets out to test the hypothesis that the fundamental concept which determines the validity and competence of usurper regimes in common law jurisdictions is the concept of legitimacy as was clearly elucidated in the Grenada Case of Mitchell v DPP (1986).

A comparative analysis of this case in juxtaposition with sixteen other extra-constitutional common law cases comprised the main scope of the study. Consequently, an exhaustive survey of these cases beginning with the Dosso case in Pakistan in 1958 and ending with the Qarase case in Fiji in 2009 was conducted.

The analysis reveals that the appropriateness of utilizing any of the judicially recognized doctrinal concepts of strict constitutionalism, state necessity, Kelsen’s theory of revolutionary legality and the doctrine of successful revolution depends,inter alia, on whether there was continuity or discontinuity of the legal order of the state.

These doctrinal concepts have their own implications for the concept of legitimacy following the occurrence of a coup d’etat or a revolution. Legitimacy itself has important implications for resolving various extra-constitutional issues which inevitably arise.

Table of Contents

Tables and Charts;
Acknowledgements
Foreword;
Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction;
Chapter 2: Constitutionalism as the Bedrock of Democracy;
Chapter 3: Do Citizens have an Obligation to Obey the State?;
Chapter 4: Continuity and Discontinuity of the Legal Order;
Chapter 5: Adjudication as an Institution
Chapter 6: Key Doctrinal Concepts Adopted in Extra-Constitutional Adjudication;
Chapter 7: Surveyed Cases and the Adoption of Key Doctrinal Concepts
Chapter 8: The Mitchell Adjudication and the Question of Legitimacy
Chapter 9: Legitimacy as a Fundamental Concept in Extra- Constitutional Cases

Bibliography;
List of Cases;
Appendix 1: Brief History of Grenada;
Appendix 2: Countries belonging to Caricom;
Appendix 3: Preamble to the Declaration of the Grenada Coup;
Appendix 4: People’s Law No.
14 of 1979;
Appendix 5: Governor-General’s Proclamation No 1;
Appendix 6: Names of Defendants in the Mitchell Case;
Appendix 7: West Indies Associated States Supreme Court Agreement;
Appendix 8: Preamble to the Constitutional Judicature (Restoration) Act, 1991
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