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The Law and Legitimacy of Imposed Constitutions

Edited by: Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades, Alkmene Fotiadou

ISBN13: 9780367519926
Published: June 2020
Publisher: Routledge
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2018)
Price: £36.99
Hardback edition , ISBN13 9781138488984



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Constitutions are often seen as the product of the free will of a people exercising their constituent power. This, however, is not always the case, particularly when it comes to `imposed constitutions'. In recent years there has been renewed interest in the idea of imposition in constitutional design, yet the literature does not yet provide a comprehensive resource to understand the meanings, causes and consequences of an imposed constitution.

This volume examines the theoretical and practical questions emerging from what scholars have described as an imposed constitutions. In this volume, a diverse group of contributors interrogates the theory, forms, and applications of imposed constitutions with the aim of refining our understanding of this variation on constitution-making. Divided into three parts, this book first considers the conceptualization of imposed constitutions, suggesting definitions, or corrections to the definition, of what exactly an imposed constitution is. The contributors then go on to explore the various ways in which constitutions are, and can be, imposed. The collection concludes by considering imposed constitutions that are currently in place in a number of polities worldwide, problematizing the consequences their imposition has caused. Cases are drawn from a broad range of countries with examples at both the national and supranational level. This book addresses some of the most important issues discussed in contemporary constitutional law: the relationship between constituent and constituted power, the source of constitutional legitimacy, the challenge of foreign and expert intervention, and the role of comparative constitutional studies in constitution-making.

The volume will be a valuable resource for those interested in the phenomenon of imposed constitutionalism as well as anyone interested in the current trends in the study of comparative constitutional law.

Subjects:
Constitutional and Administrative Law
Contents:
Introduction: Imposition in Making and Changing Constitutions
Richard Albert, Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou
Part I: Theory
Chapter 1: Imposed Constitutions: Heteronomy and (Un)amendability
Xenophon Contiades and Alkmene Fotiadou
Chapter 2: Imposed Constitutions and Romantic Constitutions
David S. Law
Chapter 3: Internally Imposed Constitutions
Yaniv Roznai
Chapter 4: Legal Theology in Imposed Constitutionalism
Antoni Abat Ninet
Part II: Forms
Chapter 5: Constitutions Imposed with Consent?
Richard Albert
Chapter 6: Are "Octroyed Constitutions" of the 19th century to be Considered as Imposed Constitutions?
Jörg Gerkrath
Chapter 7: Inter-Venire, Sed Ubi Iri?: "Imposed" Constitutions, the "Will of the People", and the Eye of the Beholder
Zoran Oklopcic
Part III: Applications
Chapter 8: On the Priority that Publius Gives to National Security in Constitutional Design: Reflections on the Longevity of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution
Sanford Levinson
Chapter 9: The Constituent Power of the "Imposed" Constitution of Japan: An Amalgam of Internationalised Revolutionary Power and Nationalistic Devolutionary Power
Yota Negishi
Chapter 10: The Legitimacy of Internationally Imposed Constitution-Making in the Context of State Building
Manon Bonnet
Chapter 11: A post-national legal order: Does the European Union have an imposed constitution?
Graham Butler
Chapter 12: Texts in a Time of Imposition: Lessons from Two Imposed Constitutions in Africa
James Fowkes

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