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Introduction
Rogers M. Smith and Richard R. Beeman
Part I. The Example of American Constitutionalism
Chapter 1. Is the Influence of the U.S. Constitution Declining?
David S. Law and Mila Versteeg
Chapter 2. Is the U.S. Constitution Sufficiently Democratic? How Would We Know and Do We Really Care?
Sanford Levinson
Chapter 3. State Constitutional Details and America's Positive Rights
Emily Zackin
Part II. Global Patterns and Problems in Modern Constitution-Making
Chapter 4. Dignity, Rights, and the Comparative Method
Christopher McCrudden
Chapter 5. Beyond Window Dressing: Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes
Tom Ginsburg
Chapter 6. Unconstitutional Constituent Power
Kim Lane Scheppele
Chapter 7. Communist Federations
Valerie Bunce
Chapter 8. Constitutional Moments and the Paradox of Constitutionalism in Multinational Democracies (Spain, 2006-2019)
Jaime Lluch
Chapter 9. Constituting the State in Postcolonial Africa: Fifty Years of Constitution-Making Toward an African Constitutionalism
Heinz Klug
Conclusion
Rogers M. Smith
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments

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      Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/08/2020
      ISBN13: 9780812252347, 978-0812252347
      ISBN10: 0812252349

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Rogers M. Smith and Richard R. Beeman
      Part I. The Example of American Constitutionalism
      Chapter 1. Is the Influence of the U.S. Constitution Declining?
      David S. Law and Mila Versteeg
      Chapter 2. Is the U.S. Constitution Sufficiently Democratic? How Would We Know and Do We Really Care?
      Sanford Levinson
      Chapter 3. State Constitutional Details and America's Positive Rights
      Emily Zackin
      Part II. Global Patterns and Problems in Modern Constitution-Making
      Chapter 4. Dignity, Rights, and the Comparative Method
      Christopher McCrudden
      Chapter 5. Beyond Window Dressing: Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes
      Tom Ginsburg
      Chapter 6. Unconstitutional Constituent Power
      Kim Lane Scheppele
      Chapter 7. Communist Federations
      Valerie Bunce
      Chapter 8. Constitutional Moments and the Paradox of Constitutionalism in Multinational Democracies (Spain, 2006-2019)
      Jaime Lluch
      Chapter 9. Constituting the State in Postcolonial Africa: Fifty Years of Constitution-Making Toward an African Constitutionalism
      Heinz Klug
      Conclusion
      Rogers M. Smith
      List of Contributors
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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