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  title info:
    title: Global canons in an age of contestation
    sub title: debating foundational texts of constitutional democracy and human rights
  name:
    name part: Choudhry, Sujit
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Hailbronner, Michaela
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kumm, Mattias
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: This edited collection asks what texts are key to our understanding of the shared values of constitutional democracy and human rights from a comparative law perspective. The volume explores this idea of 'canonical' texts as part of a broader conversation about the field and the future of comparative constitutionalism.
  table of contents: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction -- I. Introduction -- II. Why Canons? -- III. Methodology -- IV. Outline -- V. Conclusion -- Part I Foundations -- 2 A Global Constitutional Canon V Quasi-Canon?: Towards a More Informed and Inclusive Comparative Constitutionalism -- I. Introduction -- II. A Global Canon V Quasi-Canon: Definitions and Criteria -- III. Conclusion -- 3 The Jurisprudences of Canons of Comparative Constitutional Law -- I. Introduction: Legal Canons and Their Jurisprudence(s)
  table of contents: II. A Canon for Liberal Democratic Comparative Constitutional Law -- III. A Canon for Human Flourishing Comparative Constitutional Law -- IV. A Canon for Comparative Constitutional Law as Comparative Politics -- V. A Canon for Legal Realist Comparative Constitutional Law -- VI. Conclusion: The Attractions of Eclecticism -- 4 Emmanuel Sieyès, 'What Is the Third Estate?' (1789) -- I. Introduction -- II. The Historical Context -- III. Sieyès' Theory of the Constituent Power -- IV. The Bright Side of the Theory of the Constituent Power -- V. The Impossibility of a Legally Unlimited Constituent Power
  table of contents: VI. The Constituent Power and the Death of God -- 5 A Haitian Turn -- I. The Canon and the Hidden Faces of Constitutional Modernity -- II. Maroon Constitutions -- III. Layered Narratives -- 6 Exemplary But Not Canonical The South African Voters Rights Cases -- I. 'Canonical' Or 'Exemplary'? -- II. The Voters' Rights Cases -- III. We, the People? -- IV. The Impact -- V. Constitutionalism and Legal Theory in Divided Societies -- 7 A Constitutional Canon for Africa -- I. Introduction -- II. 'There Shall Be in Kenya Only One Political Party': The Anti-Canonical Act No. 7 of 1982
  table of contents: III. '... There Shall Be Convened a National Conference ...': The Canonical Decree No. 90-40 -- 8 The Mexican Constitution of 1917: A Canon for Latin American Constitutionalism -- I. Introduction -- II. Revolution Idolatry and Constitutional Subordination -- III. The "Permanent Constituent Power" and the Preservation of the Hyper-Presidential Identity -- IV. Conclusion -- Part II Structures -- 9 Separation of Powers -- I. Introduction -- II. The Constitution of the United States of America -- III. Liyanage V The Queen (1965) -- IV. The Counter Canon: Brunei's Constitution -- V. Conclusion
  table of contents: 10 Global Canons, Term Limits, and the Constituent Power Theory -- I. Introduction -- II. Methodological Remarks -- III. The Colombian Constitutional Court and the 2010 Uribe Ruling -- IV. The Bolivian Plurinational Constitutional Tribunal and the 2017 Morales Ruling -- V. On Canons and Anticanons -- VI. Conclusion -- 11 The Canon of "Constitutional Unamendability" and "Basic Structure Doctrine" in Global Constitutional Studies -- I. Introduction -- II. The Concept of Constitutional Unamendability -- III. Challenges to the Canons: Constitutional Relativity
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: edited by Sujit Choudhry, Michaela Hailbronner, Mattias Kumm.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: Constitutional law
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
  subject:
    topic: Constitutional history
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
  subject:
    topic: Histoire constitutionnelle
  subject:
    topic: Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Démocratie locale
  subject:
    topic: Démocratie locale
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Comparative
  subject:
    topic: LAW
  subject:
    topic: International
  subject:
    topic: Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
  subject:
    topic: Law
  classification: K3165 .G5 2024
  classification: 342
  identifier: 9780191956942
  identifier: 0191956945
  identifier: 0192691023
  identifier: 9780192691026
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 240508
    record change date: 20260319204731.6
    record identifier: in00005727056
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng