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Constitutionalism : past, present, and future / Dieter Grimm, Professor of Law, Humboldt University of Berlin, Former Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, Former Director of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Institute for Advanced Study.

By: Grimm, Dieter 1937- [author.].
Contributor(s): Dieter Grimm.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Oxford constitutional theory: Publisher: UK : Oxford University Press , 2016Description: viii, 383 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780198766124; 0198766122.Subject(s): Constitutional law | Constitutional history | Constitutional history | Constitutional lawDDC classification: 342 Online resources: Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents:
The origins and transformation of the concept of the constitution -- Conditions for emergence and effectiveness of modern constitutionalism -- Basic rights in the formative era of modern society -- The concept of constitutionalism in historical perspective -- The function of constitutions and guidelines for constitutional reform -- Integration by constitution -- Fundamental rights in the interpretation of the German Constitutional Court -- Return to the traditional understanding of fundamental rights? -- Constitutions, constitutional courts, and constitutional interpretation at the interface of law and politics -- Constitutional adjudication and democracy -- The future of constitutionalism -- Can democracy by bargaining be constitutionalized? -- The role of national constitutions in a united Europe -- The democratic costs of constitutionalization : the European case -- The constitution in the process of de-nationalization -- Societal constitutionalism : compensation for the decline in the importance of the state constitution? -- Levels of the rule of law : on the possibility of exporting a Western achievement -- The achievement of constitutionalism and its prospects in a changed world.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-378) and index.

The origins and transformation of the concept of the constitution -- Conditions for emergence and effectiveness of modern constitutionalism -- Basic rights in the formative era of modern society -- The concept of constitutionalism in historical perspective -- The function of constitutions and guidelines for constitutional reform -- Integration by constitution -- Fundamental rights in the interpretation of the German Constitutional Court -- Return to the traditional understanding of fundamental rights? -- Constitutions, constitutional courts, and constitutional interpretation at the interface of law and politics -- Constitutional adjudication and democracy -- The future of constitutionalism -- Can democracy by bargaining be constitutionalized? -- The role of national constitutions in a united Europe -- The democratic costs of constitutionalization : the European case -- The constitution in the process of de-nationalization -- Societal constitutionalism : compensation for the decline in the importance of the state constitution? -- Levels of the rule of law : on the possibility of exporting a Western achievement -- The achievement of constitutionalism and its prospects in a changed world.

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