Description
Book SynopsisConsiders Irish constitutional law and the Irish constitutional tradition from the perspective of republican theory.
Trade Review‘This book deserves to attract a wide range of readers including political scientists, constitutional lawyers and historians.The issues identified are relevant far beyond the Irish context, a reality underscored by the decision to open chapters by placing the relevant issues in an international and wider historical and philosophical context. Irish readers will be particularly grateful for this book’s contribution to reclaiming the word ‘republicanism’ from men in balaclavas and restoring it to its proper context.’
Thomas Mohr, School of Law, University College Dublin, Ireland, Parliaments, Estates and Representation, April 2016
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Republican theory and Republican constitutionalism
Part I Republican freedom
1. Popular sovereignty, political freedom and democratic control
2. Constitutional rights and freedom as non-domination
Part II Republican institutions
3. Political constitutionalism and executive power
4. Judicial power and popular control
5. Republican perspectives on constitutional interpretation
Part III Republican society
6. Education and civic virtue
7. Church and state in the pluralist republic
Index
