Constituting Our Constitution, Constituting Ourselves: Comments on Reva Siegel's Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict and Constitutional Change

Constitutional Theory, Constitutional Culture

Constitutional theorists and other constitutional commentators make heavy use of a paradigm that mistakes certain aspects of our current constitutional decisionmaking process for inherent parts of our constitutional structure and ignores other important aspects of that process entirely. These distortions and elisions raise concerns about the accuracy of much descriptive constitutional commentar...

Title of dissertation : CONSTITUTING REPUBLICS : TOWARD POLITICAL CONCEPTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PREDICAMENT

Title of dissertation: CONSTITUTING REPUBLICS: TOWARD POLITICAL CONCEPTION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL PREDICAMENT Emilbek Dzhuraev, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Dissertation directed by: Professor Stephen Elkin and Professor Karol Soltan Department of Government and Politics How is a good political order constituted? This work is a critical and constructive exploration of the problem of political cons...

CONSTITUTIONAL ABORTION AND CULTURE Helen

Culture and carelessness: constituting disability in South India.

Professional and lay explanations of disability, collected via interviews and participant-observation during fieldwork in Hyderabad, South India, identify "carelessness" and "superstition" as major impediments to good health among the general population, and education as the key solution. In that such findings suggest a valorization of personal responsibility for self-care, the Foucauldian conc...

from custom constitution to custom constitutional law

from the perspective of experts, custom as moral rules binding takesplace in source of law. however, clarify its position in constitutional lawneeds to know history of custom presence in basic documents which governon human societies. known dividing constitutions into two main categories,codified and customary, only will be clarified part of the extensive.because above division, as many experts...