Constitutional Identity

Informationen zum Autor Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn is H. Malcolm MacDonald Professor of Constitutional and Comparative Law in the Department of Government! University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext Argues that a constitution acquires an identity through experience - from a mix of the political aspirations and commitments that express a nation's past and the desire to transcend that past. Zusammenfassung Jacobsohn argues that a constitution acquires an identity through experience—from a mix of the political aspirations and commitments that express a nation’s past and the desire to transcend that past. It is changeable but resistant to its own destruction, and manifests itself in various ways.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn, Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn, Jacobsohn Gary Jeffrey
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2010
• EAN: 9780674047662
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04766-2
• No. of pages: 388
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Public law, administrative procedural law, constitutional procedural law; Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsrecht, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, LAW / Constitutional, Politics & government, Constitution: government and the state, Constitutional and administrative law: general