Thornhill, C. (2011) A Sociology of Constitutions: Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-sociological Perspective. Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9780521116213
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Abstract
This book provides synthetic explanatory and historical foundations for the sociology of constitutions and constitutional legitimacy. Using a methodology that combines analysis of particular constitutional texts and constitutional theories with historical reconstruction of the long-term processes of evolution underlying constitutional formation, it examines the social and role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents established in medieval European societies, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to very recent processes of constitutional transition. It provides a wide-ranging functional account of the reasons why modern societies require constitutions and constitutional norms, and it offers a distinctive socio-normative analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy.
| Item Type: | Books |
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| Status: | Published |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Thornhill, Professor Chris |
| Authors: | Thornhill, C. |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Politics |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780521116213 |
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