Author: Joseph StoryPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States
Author: Joseph StoryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Proceedings of the Constituent Assembly
Author: Ghana. Constituent AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
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The Framing of India's Constitution
Author: Benegal Shiva RaoPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Proceedings of the Constituent Assembly
Author: Nigeria. Constituent AssemblyPublisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 874
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The Indian Constitution
Author: Granville AustinPublisher:
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Category : Constitution
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
India’s Founding Moment
Author: Madhav KhoslaPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674980875
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
An Economist Best Book of the Year How India’s Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule. Britain’s justification for colonial rule in India stressed the impossibility of Indian self-government. And the empire did its best to ensure this was the case, impoverishing Indian subjects and doing little to improve their socioeconomic reality. So when independence came, the cultivation of democratic citizenship was a foremost challenge. Madhav Khosla explores the means India’s founders used to foster a democratic ethos. They knew the people would need to learn ways of citizenship, but the path to education did not lie in rule by a superior class of men, as the British insisted. Rather, it rested on the creation of a self-sustaining politics. The makers of the Indian Constitution instituted universal suffrage amid poverty, illiteracy, social heterogeneity, and centuries of tradition. They crafted a constitutional system that could respond to the problem of democratization under the most inhospitable conditions. On January 26, 1950, the Indian Constitution—the longest in the world—came into effect. More than half of the world’s constitutions have been written in the past three decades. Unlike the constitutional revolutions of the late eighteenth century, these contemporary revolutions have occurred in countries characterized by low levels of economic growth and education, where voting populations are deeply divided by race, religion, and ethnicity. And these countries have democratized at once, not gradually. The events and ideas of India’s Founding Moment offer a natural reference point for these nations where democracy and constitutionalism have arrived simultaneously, and they remind us of the promise and challenge of self-rule today.
Constituent Assemblies
Author: Jon ElsterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108427529
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Since 1787, constituent assemblies have shaped politics. This book provides a comparative, theoretical framework for understanding them.
The Russian Revolution, 1917
Author: Rex A. WadePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107130328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
This book explores the 1917 Russian Revolution from its February Revolution beginning to the victory of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in October.
The Framing of India's Constitution
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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Women Members of the Constituent Assembly
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
"This is a joint publication by Women's Caucus, Constituent Assembly Secretariat, Nepal Law Society and International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance"--T.p. verso.