Product Description: Contemporary Western constitutional systems promised a liberty-based political and social order. Yet over time, liberty has turned into a self-destructive force, as rights claims have been increasingly advanced not to defend negative liberties, but to demand positive action from governments to promote freedom or righteous causes...read more

All nation states, whether ancient or newly created, must examine their constitutional fundamentals to keep their constitutions relevant and dynamic. Constitutional change has greater legitimacy when the questions are debated before the people and accepted by them. Who are the peoples in this state? What role should they have in relation to the government? What rights should they have? Who should be Head of State? What is our constitutional relationship with other nation states? What is the influence of international law on our domestic system? What process should constitutional change follow? In this volume, scholars, practitioners, politicians, public officials, and young people explore these questions and others in relation to the New Zealand constitution and provide some thought-provoking answers. This book is recommended for anyone seeking insight into how a former British colony with bicultural foundations is making the transition to a multicultural society in an increasingly complex and globalised world.

Product Description: Constitutional orders and legal regimes are established and changed through the importing and exporting of ideas and ideologies, norms, institutions and arguments. The contributions in this book discuss this assumption and address theoretical questions, methodological problems and political projects connected with the transfer of constitutions and law...read more

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, and literary critic. Poe is considered to be the inventor of detective fiction and he was one of the earliest and greatest practitioners of the short story. Poe also wrote The Raven, which is one of the most famous poems ever written. The Gold-Bug is a short story that centers around William Legrand who is bitten by a gold-colored bug. Legrand's servant then fears that his master is going insane. The story is one of the earliest examples of detective fiction.

Product Description: From a comparative perspective, this book analyzes constitutional change in federal and decentralizing countries. The book identifies structures, processes, and strategies which have proven to favor successful constitutional amendment...read more

Product Description: An interdisciplinary perspective is adopted to examine international and European models of constitutionalism. In particular the book reflects critically on a number of constitutional themes, such as the nature of European and international constitutional models and their underlying principles; the telos behind international and European constitutionalism; the role of the state and of central courts; and the relationships between composite orders...read more

Product Description: Perspectives and Limits of Democracy provides a summary of the third Vienna Workshop on International Constitutional Law. The first part of the book focuses on perspectives of the democratic concept beyond the nation state. In an international constitutional law perspective, the evolving concepts of democracy at an international level are a matter of particular interest...read more

Product Description: Germany's federal order is, according to all political parties and social groups, under pressure of reform. An inter-parliamentary commission has been surveying all areas of federalism and was to propose models of reform late in 2004...read more

Product Description: Religious institutions, such as churches, are founded on organizational structures, constitute distinct entities in human society, and in their capacity as juristic persons are the repositories of rights and obligations. In certain jurisdictions the rights vested in a religious institution include constitutionally protected entitlements, such as the right to privacy, freedom of religion and belief, freedom of expression, freedom of association, and property rights...read more

Product Description: This volume treats, through comparative law, the question of the restrictions on private autonomy that increasingly flow from international treaties and national constitutions. While limitations on private autonomy traditionally found their basis in various doctrines in the relevant private law field (such as contracts, property or trusts and estates), it is "higher" law - notably constitutional and international law - that more and more often prescribe those limitations...read more

Product Description: A discussion of the judicial interpretation of statutes and constitutions. The essays were originally presented as papers at a workshop on Legal Interpretation, Judicial Power, and Democracy, held in Melbourne in June 2000. Participants at the workshop were legal theorists from Australia, New Zealand and the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Polarization in Western democracies and the collapse of centrally planned economies have led to calls for a redefinition of the state's core functions. This collection explores shifting conceptions of constitutional political economy anchoring the state from the viewpoints of theory, systems, and applications, with a view toward identifying why changes may be desirable and how these might be implemented...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Book by Goldwin, Robert A., Kaufman, Art