Reproductive and Sexual Rights: Do Words Matter?
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Do Constitutional Rights Matter?∗
The critique of constitutions as mere parchment barriers is as old as the practice of writing them down. Yet states put a good deal of energy into drafting constitutions and some, inevitably, do so with the intention of abiding by their provisions. The purpose of the following article is to explore this possibility. I develop a theory of constitutional enforcement and test it using data spannin...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.2008.147041