Constitutions in Crisis : Political Violence and the Rule of Law.
Title:
Constitutions in Crisis : Political Violence and the Rule of Law.
Author:
Finn, John E.
ISBN:
9780195363401
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Constitutional Maintenance and the Legal Control of Political Violence -- Chapter 1 A Theory of Constitutional Maintenance and Constitutional Crises -- Afterword: Constitutive Principles and Right Answers -- PART II: Constitutional Maintenance and Dissolution in Northern Ireland -- Chapter 2 Constitutional Dissolution and Reconstruction in Northern Ireland -- Chapter 3 Political Violence and Antiterrorism Legislation in Great Britain and Northern Ireland -- PART III: Constitutional Maintenance and Reconstruction in Germany -- Chapter 4 Constitutional Dissolution in the Weimar Republic -- Chapter 5 Constitutional Reconstruction, Militant Democracy, and Antiterrorism Legislation in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
In this compelling study, which unites the fields of constitutional theory and comparative politics, John E. Finn examines how the efforts of two western liberal democracies, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany, to cope with domestic terrorism threatens their constitutional integrity. Finn argues first that widespread political violence challenges the presuppositions of constitutional authority in any liberal democracy, namely that reason and deliberation, and not passion or will, can be the basis of political community. Terrorism therefore constitutes both a specific type of constitutional emergency and a challenge to the more general enterprise of constitutional maintenance. He then proceeds to review the efforts of the United Kingdom and Germany to control political violence through emergency legislation, and considers to what extent such measures comport with the demands of constitutionalism and the rule of law.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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