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Author : Guglielmo Rapinet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book Lectures on the British constitution and on the government of Malta written by Guglielmo Rapinet and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guglielmo Rapinet
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230369464
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (694 download)
Download or read book Lectures on the British Constitution and on the Government of Malta written by Guglielmo Rapinet and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...men, who working on the feelings, and pandering to the passions of the multitude, soon monopolized the supreme authority. But the majority of mankind were not so enei-getic or could not get rid of the highly dangerous royal animal. They merely strove to guard against his beak and claws, by setting limits to his power, by constitutional checks. These checks have gradually succeeded in curtailing to such an extent the royal functions, that government is virtually carried on by the community, through its representatives. It might appear no longer necessary to limit and check the supreme authority, which has thus descended to the Nation. It sounds like an axiom that the people have no need to restrict their authority over themselves. But this axiom is a fallacy. The will and interests of the sovereign nation is the will and interests of the most numerous or the most active part of the community, of the majority, or of those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority, and this majority, real or apparent, is as dangerous to the minority as the original unrestricted royal vulture. Civil liberty is in need of protection both in absolute and in representative governments. This protection has been obtained not by doing away with standing armies, --an impossibility in the present age, --not by instituting national guards to counteract the regular army, --a permanent encouragement to civil strife and commotion, --but by establishing a sacred area of individual liberty of action, on which the supreme political authority is not allowed to intrude, except under exceptional circumstances clearly defined, and with the concurrence, or the approval of an independent judicial authority. 118. This sacred area of individual liberty is hedged.
Author : Guglielmo Rapinet
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017322927
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Lectures on the British Constitution and on the Government of Malta written by Guglielmo Rapinet and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Caroline Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190200987
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Britannia's Embrace written by Caroline Shaw and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britannia's Embrace revises current understandings about the origins of refuge, which have focused exclusively on the period post-1914. It argues that the responsibility to protect persecuted foreigners developed in nineteenth-century Britain through a popular movement that equated refugee relief with what it meant to be liberal on a global stage.
Author : Anneli Albi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9462652732
Total Pages : 1522 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (626 download)
Download or read book National Constitutions in European and Global Governance: Democracy, Rights, the Rule of Law written by Anneli Albi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 1522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume book, published open access, brings together leading scholars of constitutional law from twenty-nine European countries to revisit the role of national constitutions at a time when decision-making has increasingly shifted to the European and transnational level. It offers important insights into three areas. First, it explores how constitutions reflect the transfer of powers from domestic to European and global institutions. Secondly, it revisits substantive constitutional values, such as the protection of constitutional rights, the rule of law, democratic participation and constitutional review, along with constitutional court judgments that tackle the protection of these rights and values in the transnational context, e.g. with regard to the Data Retention Directive, the European Arrest Warrant, the ESM Treaty, and EU and IMF austerity measures. The responsiveness of the ECJ regarding the above rights and values, along with the standard of protection, is also assessed. Thirdly, challenges in the context of global governance in relation to judicial review, democratic control and accountability are examined. On a broader level, the contributors were also invited to reflect on what has increasingly been described as the erosion or ‘twilight’ of constitutionalism, or a shift to a thin version of the rule of law, democracy and judicial review in the context of Europeanisation and globalisation processes. The national reports are complemented by a separately published comparative study, which identifies a number of broader trends and challenges that are shared across several Member States and warrant wider discussion. The research for this publication and the comparative study were carried out within the framework of the ERC-funded project ‘The Role and Future of National Constitutions in European and Global Governance’. The book is aimed at scholars, researchers, judges and legal advisors working on the interface between national constitutional law and EU and transnational law. The extradition cases are also of interest to scholars and practitioners in the field of criminal law. Anneli Albi is Professor of European Law at the University of Kent, United Kingdom. Samo Bardutzky is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Author : Royal Commonwealth Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Commonwealth Society and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : State Library of Massachusetts
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Total Pages : 1206 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain). Library
Publisher : London : The Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book First Supplementary Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain). Library and published by London : The Institute. This book was released on 1901 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : State Library of Massachusetts
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Total Pages : 1242 pages
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Download or read book Report written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : State Library of Massachusetts
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Total Pages : 680 pages
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Download or read book Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts written by State Library of Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Loughlin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674268024
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Against Constitutionalism written by Martin Loughlin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of the transformation of constitutionalism from an increasingly irrelevant theory of limited government into the most influential philosophy of governance in the world today. Constitutionalism is universally commended because it has never been precisely defined. Martin Loughlin argues that it is not some vague amalgam of liberal aspirations but a specific and deeply contentious governing philosophy. An Enlightenment idea that in the nineteenth century became America's unique contribution to the philosophy of government, constitutionalism was by the mid-twentieth century widely regarded as an anachronism. Advocating separated powers and limited government, it was singularly unsuited to the political challenges of the times. But constitutionalism has since undergone a remarkable transformation, giving the Constitution an unprecedented role in society. Once treated as a practical instrument to regulate government, the Constitution has been raised to the status of civil religion, a symbolic representation of collective unity. Against Constitutionalism explains why this has happened and its far-reaching consequences. Spearheaded by a "rights revolution" that subjects governmental action to comprehensive review through abstract principles, judges acquire greatly enhanced power as oracles of the regime's "invisible constitution." Constitutionalism is refashioned as a theory maintaining that governmental authority rests not on collective will but on adherence to abstract standards of "public reason." And across the world the variable practices of constitutional government have been reshaped by its precepts. Constitutionalism, Loughlin argues, now propagates the widespread belief that social progress is advanced not through politics, electoral majorities, and legislative action, but through innovative judicial interpretation. The rise of constitutionalism, commonly conflated with constitutional democracy, actually contributes to its degradation.
Author : Laurence H. TRIBE
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674044452
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book On Reading the Constitution written by Laurence H. TRIBE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Constitution speaks in general terms of liberty and property, of the privileges and immunities of citizens, and of the equal protection of the laws--open-ended phrases that seem to invite readers to reflect in them their own visions and agendas. Yet, recognizing that the Constitution cannot be merely what its interpreters wish it to be, this volume's authors draw on literary and mathematical analogies to explore how the fundamental charter of American government should be construed today.
Author : Massachusetts
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Total Pages : 2240 pages
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Download or read book Public Documents of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 2240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott GORDON
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674037839
Total Pages : 408 pages
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Download or read book Controlling the State written by Scott GORDON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of the theory and practice of constitutionalism, defined as a political system in which the coercive power of the state is controlled through a pluralistic distribution of political power. It explores the main venues of constitutional practice in ancient Athens, Republican Rome, Renaissance Venice, the Dutch Republic, seventeenth-century England, and eighteenth-century America. From its beginning in Polybius' interpretation of the classical concept of mixed government, the author traces the theory of constitutionalism through its late medieval appearance in the Conciliar Movement of church reform and in the Huguenot defense of minority rights. After noting its suppression with the emergence of the nation-state and the Bodinian doctrine of sovereignty, the author describes how constitutionalism was revived in the English conflict between king and Parliament in the early Stuart era, and how it has developed since then into the modern concept of constitutional democracy.
Author : Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain)
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Total Pages : 722 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the Royal Colonial Institute written by Royal Colonial Institute (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Faiz Ahmed
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674971949
Total Pages : 448 pages
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Download or read book Afghanistan Rising written by Faiz Ahmed and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone and the rule of law as a secular-liberal monopoly, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence, codify its own laws, and ratify a constitution after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Afghanistan Rising illustrates how turn-of-the-twentieth-century Kabul--far from being a landlocked wilderness or remote frontier--became a magnet for itinerant scholars and statesmen shuttling between Ottoman and British imperial domains. Tracing the country's longstanding but often ignored scholarly and educational ties to Baghdad, Damascus, and Istanbul as well as greater Delhi and Lahore, Ahmed explains how the court of Kabul attracted thinkers eager to craft a modern state within the interpretive traditions of Islamic law and ethics, or shariʿa, and international norms of legality. From Turkish lawyers and Arab officers to Pashtun clerics and Indian bureaucrats, this rich narrative focuses on encounters between divergent streams of modern Muslim thought and politics, beginning with the Sublime Porte's first mission to Afghanistan in 1877 and concluding with the collapse of Ottoman rule after World War I. By unearthing a lost history behind Afghanistan's founding national charter, Ahmed shows how debates today on Islam, governance, and the rule of law have deep roots in a beleaguered land. Based on archival research in six countries and as many languages, Afghanistan Rising rediscovers a time when Kabul stood proudly as a center of constitutional politics, Muslim cosmopolitanism, and contested visions of reform in the greater Islamicate world.
Author : Madhav Khosla
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674980875
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Download or read book India’s Founding Moment written by Madhav Khosla and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Economist Best Book of the Year How India’s Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule. Britain’s justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship was a foremost challenge. Madhav Khosla explores the means India’s founders used to foster a democratic ethos. They knew the people would need to learn ways of citizenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior class of men, as the British insisted. Rather, it rested on the creation of a self-sustaining politics. The makers of the Indian Constitution instituted universal suffrage amid poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. They crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian Constitution—the longest in the world—came into effect. More than half of the world’s constitutions have been written in the past three decades. Unlike the constitutional revolutions of the late eighteenth century, these contemporary revolutions have occurred in countries characterized by low levels of economic growth and education, where voting populations are deeply divided by race, religion, and ethnicity. And these countries have democratized at once, not gradually. The events and ideas of India’s Founding Moment offer a natural reference point for these nations where democracy and constitutionalism have arrived simultaneously, and they remind us of the promise and challenge of self-rule today.
