Book
Fundamentals in the Liberal Constitutional Tradition
| العنوان: | Fundamentals in the Liberal Constitutional Tradition |
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| المؤلفون: | Kommers, Donald p., Thompson, W J |
| المصدر: | Constitutional Policy and Change in Europe ; page 23-45 ; ISBN 9780198279914 9781383016932 |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University PressOxford |
| سنة النشر: | 1995 |
| الوصف: | In recapitulating the essentials of the liberal constitutional tradition, we are faced at the outset with severe problems of definition. We could, for example, spend much of our time clarifying the concept of a ‘tradition’. What constitutes a tradition? How and when do ideas or practices evolve into a tradition? Is a tradition the same as an ideology? We shall pass on these questions, because for present purposes it is more important to focus on the meaning of liberal constitutionalism. Yet here too we face problems of definition. The focus of this volume is constitutionalism, and the assumption seems to be that we all adequately grasp what this term means. But Walter Murphy has suggested, and we agree, that ‘without a clear definition, the term “constitutionalism” is an invitation to debate about ghosts or, to shift the metaphor, to enter a trackless verbal swamp’.1 The fog thickens when we add the specification ‘liberal’, in so far as the adjective suggests that there may be different kinds of constitutionalism. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | book part |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-19-827991-4 978-1-383-01693-2 0-19-827991-4 1-383-01693-3 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198279914.003.0002 |
| الاتاحة: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198279914.003.0002 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52141465/isbn-9780198279914-book-part-2.pdf |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.1D1CD3FC |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| ردمك: | 9780198279914 9781383016932 0198279914 1383016933 |
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| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198279914.003.0002 |