Defending the Political Constitution.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellamy, Richard (Richard Paul), author.

Series:

Oxford Constitutional Theory Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional law.

Political questions and judicial power.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2026.

Summary:

By comparing legal and political constitutionalism, Defending the Political Constitution explores the normative and empirical advantages of a political constitution and its democratic mechanisms.

Contents:

The political constitution

A genealogy

Rights as Democracy

The Rule of Law as the Democratic Rule of Persons

Checks and Balances as Democracy: Political Equality and Majority Rule in the Democratic Mixed Constitution

Domestic Bills of Rights: Political Constitutionalism and the Human Rights Act

International Human Rights Conventions: Political Constitutionalism and the European Convention on Human Rights

Must Politics Rest on Law?

Democracy through Courts?

Populism and the Democratic Challenge: Does Political Constitutionalism Facilitate or Counter Democratic Backsliding

Referendums and the Case of Brexit: Towards a Populist Constitutionalism?

Taking Back Control? The Political Constitution of the European Union.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-182698-7

0-19-108736-X

9780191087363

OCLC:

1564089397