Comparative constitutional theory
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In Constitutional Identity, Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn argues that a constitution acquires an identity through experience--from a mix of the political aspirations and commitments that express a nation's past and the desire to transcend that past. It is changeable but resistant to its own destruction, and manifests itself in various ways, as Jacobsohn shows in examples as far flung as India, Ireland, Israel, and the United States. Jacobsohn argues that the presence of disharmony--both the tensions within a constitutional order and those that exist between a constitutional document and the society it seeks to regulate--is critical to understanding the theory and dynamics of constitutional identity. He explores constitutional identity's great practical importance for some of constitutionalism's most vexing questions: Is an unconstitutional constitution possible? Is the judicial practice of using foreign sources to resolve domestic legal disputes a threat to vital constitutional interests? How are the competing demands of transformation and preservation in constitutional evolution to be balanced?
How can religious liberty be guaranteed in societies where religion pervades everyday life? In The Wheel of Law, Gary Jacobsohn addresses this dilemma by examining the constitutional development of secularism in India within an unprecedented cross-national framework that includes Israel and the United States. He argues that a country's particular constitutional theory and practice must be understood within its social and political context.
In: Princeton paperbacks
In: The review of politics, Band 68, Heft 3, S. 361-397
ISSN: 0034-6705
World Affairs Online
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 358-360
ISSN: 1471-6380
In: American political science review, Band 85, Heft 4, S. 1456-1457
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: The review of politics, Band 51, S. 159-189
ISSN: 0034-6705
Examines the advisability of adopting a bill of rights and the appropriate stance of the regime on the question of free speech.
In: The review of politics, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 159
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: The review of politics, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 159-189
ISSN: 1748-6858
Constitutional transplantation, the process by which the constitutional practice of one society becomes an important source for the legal development of another, has figured importantly in the institutional evolution of new politics. In this article, I examine the constitutional experience of Israel and the United States, two societies that share a language of jurisprudential discourse while differing significantly in a number of polically relevant ways. In particular, the fact that both societies can be described as pluralistic only conceals the fact that they represent alternative models of pluralism that may render problematic the the transferablity of constitutional outcomes from one place to another. Thus, the literature of modern constitutionalism, which has tended to emphasize the rights-based liberal ethic of individualism, is arguably more compatible with an American model in which the principles of the "procedural republic" are more unproblematically embraced. To pursue this question, I look at two issues—the advisability of adopting a bill of rights and the appropriate stance of the regime on the question of free speech—that allow us to reflect upon the limits and possibilities of constitutional transplantation.
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 493, Heft 1, S. 218-219
ISSN: 1552-3349