Writing a national identity : political, economic, and cultural perspectives on the written Constitution

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Writing a national identity : political, economic, and cultural perspectives on the written Constitution

edited by Vivien Hart and Shannon C. Stimson

(The Fulbright papers, v. 11)

Manchester University Press in association with the Fulbright Commission, London , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993

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Includes index

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In this work, an interdisciplinary group of scholars reflects on the role of a written constitution in defining America's distinctive national culture and in addressing pressing issues confronting its social and political life. European and Canadian federalism is also taken into account.

目次

  • Part 1: the US constitution and the textuality of American culture, Wayne Franklin
  • constitution and imagination - the myth of reason - the reason of myth, Emory Elliott
  • constitutional discourse - a commentary, Stephen Fender. Part 2: written constitutions and social rights, David P. Currie
  • written constitutions and negative rights - some comments on Professor Currie, Christopher McCrudden
  • "The Most Willful Blindness" - the supreme court and social facts, H.N. Hirsch
  • spousal equality and the law - a dilemma for liberal society, Mary Lyndon Shanley
  • the right to a fair wage - American experience and the European social charter, Vivien Hart
  • social rights, social facts, and the written constitution - American reflections, Cheryl B. Welch
  • social rights, social facts, and the written constitution - European reflections, Elizabeth Meehan. Part 3: reflections on the economic interpretation of the constitution, Shannon C. Stimson
  • the constitution of a monetary authority for Europe, Murray Milgate. Part 4: constitution and national identity in contempory Canada - a historian's view, Ged Martin
  • the Canadian charter of rights and freedoms - an instrument for change, Gilles Letourneau and Yves DeMontingny
  • constitution-making in Canada - writing a national identity or preparing for national disintegration?, Robert C. Vipond.

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    Manchester University Press in association with the Fulbright Commission, London

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