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Constitutionalism is "a compound of ideas, attitudes, and patterns of behavior elaborating the principle that the authority of government derives from and is limited ...
The great examples of constitutional scholarship from an earlier generation were primarily works of intellectual history. Sweeping studies of Western political thought, Roman law, and the British legal tradition provided detailed arguments on the origins and development of the idea of constitutionalism (Friedrich 1941; Wormuth 1949; McIlwain 1947).
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certain kind of respect for the founding and for crucial episodes in our his-tory, seem, to many people, central to what it is to be an American. . . . . . . . . . . The written Constitution is valuable because it provides a com-mon ground among the American people, and in that way makes it possi-
Abstract. This article examines the relation between the rule of law and constitutionalism. It attempts to provide a better understanding of the ambiguous construct of the rule of law which still remains in the public imagination as a formative part of political discourse. It analyses the role of the rule of law within the constitutional ...
Jan 10, 2001 · 1. Constitutionalism: a Minimal and a Rich Sense. In some minimal sense of the term, a constitution consists of a set of norms (rules, principles or values) creating, structuring, and possibly defining the limits of, government power or authority. Understood in this way, all states have constitutions and all states are constitutional states.
Aug 30, 2016 · Constitutionalism lays down precepts such as the rule of law, democracy, human rights, and the separation of powers, which operate within a constitutional order to mediate the interaction between law and power in subnational, national, supranational, and global governance systems. Even if constitutionalism is not explicitly identified in all ...
