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The Guardian of the Constitution: Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on the Limits of Constitutional Law

The Guardian of the Constitution: Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on the Limits of Constitutional Law

Name: The Guardian of the Constitution: Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on the Limits of Constitutional Law
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107092686
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Author: Lars Vinx
ISBN: 9781107092686

By Lars Vinx

Cambridge University Press February 2015

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ISBN-13: 9781107092686
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: February 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This volume provides the first English translation of Hans Kelsen's and Carl Schmitt's influential Weimar-era debate on constitutional guardianship and the legitimacy of constitutional review. It includes Kelsen's seminal piece, 'The Nature and Development of Constitutional Adjudication', as well as key extracts from the 'Guardian of the Constitution' which present Schmitt's argument against constitutional review. Also included are Kelsen's review of Schmitt's 'Guardian of the Constitution', as well as some further material by Kelsen and Schmitt on presidential dictatorship under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution.

These texts show Kelsen and Schmitt responding to one another, in the context of a debate focused on a concrete constitutional crisis, thus allowing the reader to assess the plausibility of Kelsen's and Schmitt's legal and constitutional theories.

Introduction

1. Kelsen on the nature and development of constitutional adjudication

2. The guardian of the constitution: Schmitt's argument against judicial review

3. The guardian of the constitution: Schmitt on the President as guardian of the constitution

4. Who ought to be the guardian of the constitution? Kelsen's reply to Schmitt

5. Prussia contra Reich: Schmitt's closing statement in Leipzig

6. Kelsen on the judgment of the Staatsgerichtshof of the 25th of October 1932.

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