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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 July 2009
      28 August 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511510267
      9780521861687
      9780521063760
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511510267
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.512kg, 280 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.438kg, 280 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, European Government, Politics and Policy, Comparative Politics
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    This book is written for anyone, anywhere sitting down to write a constitution. The book is designed to be educative for even those not engaged directly in constitutional design but who would like to come to a better understanding of the nature and problems of constitutionalism and its fundamental building blocks - especially popular sovereignty and the separation of powers. Rather than a 'how-to-do-it' book that explains what to do in the sense of where one should end up, it instead explains where to begin - how to go about thinking about constitutions and constitutional design before sitting down to write anything. Still, it is possible, using the detailed indexes found in the book, to determine the level of popular sovereignty one has designed into a proposed constitution and how to balance it with an approximate, appropriate level of separation of powers to enhance long-term stability.

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    "What it does with admirable clarity and lucidity is examine the history of constitutional theories and theorists, and the problems that have exercised them." - The Law and Politics Book Review Wade Mansell, University of Kent, UK

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