Title Statements
- Full title :There is no supreme constitution
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2019.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):African Sun Media under the Sun Press imprint
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781928480273, 1928480276
- oclc:on1122914449
- LC Classification:KTL2070
- Dewey Decimal:342.68023
Table of Contents
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Constitutionalism -- Introduction -- The core characteristics of constitutionalism -- Normativity -- the commitment to justice -- Fundamental (higher) law -- The consensual basis of the rule of law -- customary law-abiding conduct -- Limited government -- diffusion and balance of power -- the idea of the mixed constitution -- public office -- Chapter 2 -- Statist-individualist Constitutionalism -- Introduction -- Statism -- paving the way to statist constitutionalism
The establishment of statist-individualist constitutionalism -- The nine essential beliefs of statist-individualist constitutionalism -- State-based positive law, more specifically the formulations of the Constitution, is omnipresent -- The Constitution is rigid and actually supreme -- The Constitution is formulation-driven and has a formal-static character -- The supreme value that is placed on the formulations -- the written words of the constitutional Document -- Pre-political -- The trias politica and the independence, impartiality and effectiveness of the judiciary
The preoccupation -- fixation -- with micro theory (and the statist-in…
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