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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778578603321

Autore

Rosenfeld Michel <1948-, >

Titolo

The identity of the constitutional subject : selfhood, citizenship, culture, and community / / Michel Rosenfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-135-25327-7

1-135-25328-5

1-282-37739-6

9786612377396

0-203-86898-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

Discourses of law The identity of the constitutional subject

Disciplina

320.3

342

Soggetti

Constitutional law - Social aspects

Constitutional law - Psychological aspects

Constitutional law - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-318) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE: Why Constitutional Identity and for Whom?; CHAPTER 1 The Constitutional Subject: Singular, Plural or Universal?; CHAPTER 2 The Constitutional Subject and the Clash of Self and Other: On the Uses of Negation, Metaphor and Metonymy; PART TWO: Producing Constitutional Identity; CHAPTER 3 Reinventing Tradition Through Constitutional Interpretation: The Case of Unenumerated Rights in the United States

CHAPTER 4 Recasting and Reorienting Identity Through Constitution-Making: The Pivotal Case of Spain's 1978 ConstitutionPART THREE: Constitutional Identity as Bridge between Self and Other: Binding Together Citizenship, History and Society; CHAPTER 5 Constitutional Models: Shaping, Nurturing and Guiding the Constitutional Subject; CHAPTER 6 Models of Constitution Making; CHAPTER 7 The Constitutional Subject and Clashing Visions of Citizenship: Can We Be Beyond What We are Not?



CHAPTER 8 Can the Constitutional Subject Go Global? Imagining a Convergence of the Universal, the Particular and the SingularNotes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The last fifty years has seen a worldwide trend toward constitutional democracy. But can constitutionalism become truly global?Relying on historical examples of successfully implanted constitutional regimes, ranging from the older experiences in the United States and France to the relatively recent ones in Germany, Spain and South Africa, Michel Rosenfeld sheds light on the range of conditions necessary for the emergence, continuity and adaptability of a viable constitutional identity - citizenship, nationalism, multiculturalism, and human rights being important elements.T