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| 008 | 060927s2007 enk b 001 0 eng | ||
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| 020 | _a9780521866521 (hardback) | ||
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_aK552 _b.S29 2007 |
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_aSchwartzberg, Melissa, _d1975- |
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_aDemocracy and legal change / _cMelissa Schwartzberg. _helectronic resource |
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_aCambridge [England] ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2007. |
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_axii, 228 p. ; _c23 cm. |
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| 490 | 1 | _aCambridge studies in the theory of democracy | |
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction : explaining legal change and entrenchment -- Innovation and democracy : legal change in ancient Athens -- Legislation and law reform in seventeenth-century England -- Fallibility and foundations in the U.S. Constitution -- Protecting democracy and dignity in Postwar Germany -- Conclusion : defending democracy against entrenchment. | |
| 520 | _aSince ancient Athens, democrats have taken pride in their power and inclination to change their laws, yet they have also sought to counter this capacity by creating immutable laws. In Democracy and Legal Change, Melissa Schwartzberg argues that modifying law is a fundamental and attractive democratic activity. Against those who would defend the use of “entrenchment clauses” to protect key constitutional provisions from revision, Schwartzberg seeks to demonstrate historically the strategic and even unjust purposes unamendable laws have typically served, and to highlight the regrettable consequences that entrenchment may have for democracies today. Drawing on historical evidence, classical political thought, and contemporary constitutional and democratic theory, Democracy and Legal Change reexamines the relationship between democracy and the rule of law from a new, and often surprising, set of vantage points | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aLaw reform. | |
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_aLaw reform _xHistory. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aDemocracy. | |
| 830 | 0 | _aCambridge studies in the theory of democracy. | |
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_3Table of contents only _uhttps://portal.knchr.org/Library/My%20eBooks/Democracy%20legal%20change.pdf _yClick here to download |
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| 948 | _aLTI 07/07/2007 | ||