عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
K3161 .T486 2011
K3161
.
T486
2011
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
9780521116213 (hardback)
(Number (ISBN
052111621X (hardback)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
90-1136
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Other Title Information
: Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Chris Thornhill.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2011.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 451 pages
Dimensions
; 24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-424) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Machine generated contents note: 1. Medieval constitutions; 2. Constitutions and early modernity; 3. States, rights and the revolutionary form of power; 4. Constitutions from Empire to Fascism; 5. Constitutions and democratic transitions.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to recent processes of constitutional transition. A Sociology of Constitutions explores the reasons why modern societies require constitutions and constitutional norms and presents a distinctive socio-normative analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy"--
Text of Note
"During the emergence of sociology as an academic discipline the question about the origins, status and functions of constitutions was widely posed. Indeed, for both thematic and methodological reasons, the analysis of constitutions was a central aspect of early sociology. Sociology developed,however ambiguously,as a critical intellectual response to the theories and achievements of the Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, the political dimension of which was centrally focused on the theory and practice of constitutional rule. In its very origins, in fact, sociology might be seen as a counter-movement to the political ideals of the Enlightenment, which rejected the (alleged) normative deductivism of Enlightenment theorists. In this respect, in particular, early sociology was deeply concerned with theories of political legitimacy in the Enlightenment, and it translated the revolutionary analysis of legitimacy in the Enlightenment, focused on the normative claim that singular rights and rationally generalized principles of legal validity were the constitutional basis for legitimate statehood, into an account of legitimacy which observed political orders as obtaining legitimacy through internalistically complex, historically contingent and multi-levelled processes of legal formation and societal motivation and cohesion. This is not to suggest that there existed a strict and unbridgeable dichotomy between the Enlightenment, construed as a body of normative philosophy, and proto-sociological inquiry, defined as a body of descriptive interpretation"--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Constitutional history.
Constitutional law-- Social aspects.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
K3161
Book number
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T486
2011
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Thornhill, C. J., (Christopher J.),1966-
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20111127170332.0
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251648
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