The language of liberal constitutionalism /

Main Author: Schweber, Howard H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The search for sovereignty : law, language, and the beginnings of modern constitutionalism
  • Consent how? : challenges to Lockean constitutionalism
  • Constitutional language and the possibility of binding commitments
  • Consent to what? : exclusivity and completeness in constitutional and legal language
  • The question of substance : morality, law, and constitutional legitimacy
  • The defense of constitutional language.