Interpreting constitutions: a comparative study
'Interpreting Constitutions' describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts. The book compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles.
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- Full title :Interpreting constitutions : a comparative study / edited by Jeffrey Goldsworthy.
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'Interpreting Constitutions' describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts. The book compares the interpretive methods and underlying principles that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods and principles.
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- Publication Date:2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:xvi, 353 pages
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199226474, 0199226474, 9780199274130, 0199274134
- oclc:ocn779886496
- LC Classification:K3165
- Dewey Decimal:342.02
Table of Contents
The United States : eclecticism in the service of pragmatism / Mark Tushnet -- Canada: from privy council to Supreme Court / Peter W. Hogg -- Australia: devotion to legalism / Jeffrey Goldsworthy -- Germany: balancing rights and duties / Donald P. Kommers -- India: from positivism to structuralism / S.P. Sathe -- South Africa: from constitutional promise to social transformation / Heinz Klug.
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