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Democracy and legal change /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Democracy and legal change // Melissa Schwartzberg.
remainder title:	Democracy & Legal Change
Author:	Schwartzberg, Melissa,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Law reform. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511509681
ISBN:	9780511509681 (ebook)

Democracy and legal change /
Schwartzberg, Melissa,1975-

Democracy and legal change /Democracy & Legal ChangeMelissa Schwartzberg. - 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy ;6. - Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy ;8..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction : explaining legal change and entrenchment -- Innovation and democracy : legal change in ancient Athens -- Legislation and law reform in seventeenth-century England -- Fallibility and foundations in the U.S. Constitution -- Protecting democracy and dignity in Postwar Germany -- Conclusion : defending democracy against entrenchment.

Since ancient Athens, democrats have taken pride in their power and inclination to change their laws, yet they have also sought to counter this capacity by creating immutable laws. In Democracy and Legal Change, Melissa Schwartzberg argues that modifying law is a fundamental and attractive democratic activity. Against those who would defend the use of 'entrenchment clauses' to protect key constitutional provisions from revision, Schwartzberg seeks to demonstrate historically the strategic and even unjust purposes unamendable laws have typically served, and to highlight the regrettable consequences that entrenchment may have for democracies today. Drawing on historical evidence, classical political theory, and contemporary constitutional and democratic theory, Democracy and Legal Change reexamines the relationship between democracy and the rule of law from a new, and often surprising, set of vantage points.

ISBN: 9780511509681 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

566171
Law reform.

LC Class. No.: K552 / .S29 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 340/.3

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