LEADER 03062nam 22005412 450 001 9910155151703321 005 20170302150411.0 010 $a1-316-86687-4 010 $a1-316-86795-1 010 $a1-316-86813-3 010 $a1-316-40385-8 010 $a1-316-86831-1 010 $a1-316-86849-4 010 $a1-316-86903-2 035 $a(CKB)4340000000023066 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781316403853 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4755989 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000023066 100 $a20150305d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBuilding the constitution $ethe practice of constitutional interpretation in post-apartheid South Africa /$fJames Fowkes$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 392 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in constitutional law 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Feb 2017). 311 $a1-107-56115-9 311 $a1-107-12409-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTaking reality (legally) seriously -- Voting rights, politics, and trust -- The role of the court : standard conceptions -- The role of the court : constitution-building -- LGBTI equality -- Democracy -- Socio-economic rights -- Equality, eviction and engagement. 330 $aThis revisionary perspective on South Africa's celebrated Constitutional Court draws on historical and empirical sources alongside conventional legal analysis to show how support from the African National Congress government and other political actors has underpinned the Court's landmark cases, which are often applauded too narrowly as merely judicial achievements. Standard accounts see the Court as overseer of a negotiated constitutional compromise and as the looked-to guardian of that constitution against the rising threat of the ANC. However, in reality South African successes have been built on broader and more admirable constitutional politics to a degree no previous account has described or acknowledged. The Court has responded to this context with a substantially consistent but widely misunderstood pattern of deference and intervention. Although a work in progress, this institutional self-understanding represents a powerful effort by an emerging court, as one constitutionally serious actor among others, to build a constitution. 410 0$aCambridge studies in constitutional law. 606 $aConstitutional courts$zSouth Africa 606 $aConstitutional law$zSouth Africa 615 0$aConstitutional courts 615 0$aConstitutional law 676 $a342.68 686 $aLAW018000$2bisacsh 700 $aFowkes$b James$f1984-$01075259 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155151703321 996 $aBuilding the constitution$92584277 997 $aUNINA