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Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule

By Jonathan Riley , Jack N. Rakove , John Ferejohn

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
052179370X, 9780521793704
LCC
KF4552 .C66 2001
Open Library ID
OL6788402M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1520199 bytes)
Series
Murphy Institute Studies in Political Economy
Edition
1
Pages
428\427
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on constitutional democracy, with special reference to the United States. The editors and contributors conceive of a constitutionalism as an ongoing process in which most members of a given community rely on certain cultural norms and practices to identify and interpret constitutional rules (written or unwritten as the case may be) that limit government power, and divide it among competing groups of leaders such that no single group has unchecked authority to pass statutes or to interpret the constitution when disputes arise.

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