Latin American Constitutionalism,1810-2010 : the Engine Room of the Constitution.
This study of 200 years of Latin American constitutionalism (1810-2010) both presents a description and a critical analysis of what Latin Americans did with their Constitutions during those years.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Scholarship Online,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The First Latin American Constitutions (1810-1850); 2. Fusion Constitutionalism: The Liberal-Conservative Compact in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; 3. The Material Basis of the Constitution; 4. The Limits Imposed by the Past upon the New Constitutions; 5. The Crisis of the Postcolonial Constitutional Model: Positivism and Revolution at the Beginning of the New Century; 6. Constitutionalism at the Mid-Twentieth Century and the Return of the "Social Question"; 7. Grafting Social Rights onto Hostile Constitutions
- 8. Contemporary Constitutionalism I: Constitutions in Internal Tension9. Contemporary Constitutionalism II: The "Engine Room" of the Constitution; 10. What Have We Learned in 200 Years of Constitutionalism?: For an Egalitarian Constitutionalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z