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Sociology of Constitutions : Constitutions and State Legitimacy in Historical-Sociological Perspective /
"Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the class...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011, ©2011.
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Series: | Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
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- Machine generated contents note: 1. Medieval constitutions; 2. Constitutions and early modernity; 3. States, rights and the revolutionary form of power; 4. Constitutions from Empire to Fascism; 5. Constitutions and democratic transitions.