Constitutional violence : legitimacy, democracy and human rights / Antoni Abat i Ninet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ninet, Antoni Abat i.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legitimacy of governments.

Democracy.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is a constitution the best device for ruling a country? Western political systems tend to be 'constitutional democracies', dividing the system into a domain of politics, where the people rule, and a domain of law, set aside for a trained elite. Antoni Abat i Ninet strives to resolve these apparently exclusive public and legal sovereignties, using their various avatars across the globe as case studies. He challenges the American constitutional experience that has dominated western constitutional thought as a quasi-religious doctrine. And he argues that human rights and democracy must strive to deactivate the 'invisible' but very real violence embedded in our seemingly sacrosanct constitutions.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Sovereignty and constitution

3. Democracy

4. Legal violence

5. Comparing constitutional violence.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-299-10564-5

0-7486-6955-8

OCLC:

828793385