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Reconsidering Constitutional Formation II Decisive Constitutional Normativity : From Old Liberties to New Precedence.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Müßig, Ulrike.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Studies in the History of Law and Justice Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1 A New Order of the Ages. Normativity and Precedence
  • Abstract
  • 1 Novus Ordo Seclorum
  • 2 Definitions of Normativity and Precedence
  • 3 The Constitutionality of the Colonies' Legal Argumentation Conducting Their Case like a Common Law Litigation
  • 3.1 The British-American Discursive Common Law Community
  • 3.2 Customary Old Liberties Against Parliamentary Absoluteness
  • 3.2.1 American Sympathies for the Supremacy of Common Law
  • 3.2.2 Liberty Defending Common Law Versus Discretion Granting Executive from an American Perspective
  • 3.3 No Westminster Legislation on the Internal Colonial Polities
  • 3.3.1 Systematic Distinction of 'Internal' and 'External' Spheres of Colonial Government
  • 3.3.2 Specific Matters of the Colonies' Own Nature Versus General Matters of the Empire
  • 3.4 Self-reliance of the British Imperial 'Constitution'
  • 3.5 Legal Force of Custom in the Unsettled Connexion of the Colonies to Britain
  • 4 Establishing Constitution as Law
  • 4.1 Emergence of the Constituent American People
  • 4.1.1 Natural Law 'Basis and Foundation of Government'
  • 4.1.2 Independence from Being Subjects of the 'Same' King
  • 4.1.3 Constitutional American People of the United Colonies (1776-8)
  • 4.2 Constitution as Supreme Legal Codex for Central State Issues
  • 4.2.1 Focus on the Division of Sovereignty Between Union and Single States
  • 4.2.2 The Constitution as Guarantee for the Existence of the Union
  • 4.2.3 Constitutional Silence on Precedence
  • 4.3 Farewell to the Lockean 'Inter legislatorem et populum nullus in terris est judex'
  • 5 Summary of Sections 3 and 4
  • 6 Legal Transition of Philosophical Truths
  • 6.1 Sieyès' Constitutional Jury (jury constituionnaire)
  • 6.1.1 Constitutional Debates of 2 and 18 Thermidor III (20 July and 5 August 1795)
  • 'Jury de Cassation'.
  • 'Jury de Proposition'
  • 'Jury of Natural Equity'
  • 6.1.2 Communicative Implications of the Jury's Attributions in the Thermidorian Constitutional Debates
  • 'Jury de Cassation'
  • 'Jury de Proposition'
  • 'Jury of Natural Equity'
  • 6.2 Defeat of Sieyès' Jury Proposal and Its Consequences on the French Constitutional Jurisdiction
  • 7 Avenues of New Constitutional Research: Sketching Germany, 1848-9
  • 7.1 Juridification Matters in the Public Sphere Around the Constituent St. Paul's Church Assembly
  • 7.2 Supremacy Matters in the Public Sphere Around the Constituent St. Paul's Church Assembly
  • 7.3 Revision Matters in the Public Sphere Around the Constituent St. Paul's Church Assembly
  • 8 Conclusion
  • References
  • 2 The Development of Constitutional Precedence and the Constitutionalization of Individual Rights
  • Abstract
  • 1 Fundamental Laws and Fundamental Rights in the 17th and 18th Centuries and the Invention of the Word "Unconstitutional" in England
  • 2 The Dissociation of "Constitutional" from Legislative Power in North America and the "Constitutionalisation" of Individual Rights (Colonies and States up to 1787/88)
  • 3 Fundamental or Paramount Law on the Federal Level in the United States: Marbury v. Madison 1803 and Obergefell v. Hodges 2015
  • 4 Europe, "Constitutional Complaint" (Verfassungsbeschwerde) and "Individual Complaint" (Individualbeschwerde): Roots 1848 and 1867, Beginnings 1919/1920, Breakthrough After World War II
  • References
  • 3 "To Which Constitution the Further Laws of the Present Sejm Have to Adhere to in All…" Constitutional Precedence of the 3 May System
  • Abstract
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 A Note on Terminology
  • 3 Characteristic of the Sources
  • 4 French Inspirations of Polish Republicans: Drafts of Mably and Rousseau.
  • 5 The Extraordinary Procedure for Enactment of the Constitution of 3 May: Oath on the Constitution
  • 5.1 First Constitutional Works
  • 5.2 Enactment of the Government Statute
  • 5.3 An Oath on the Constitution
  • 6 The Problem of the Supreme Law in the Time of the 3 May Debate
  • 6.1 Henrician Articles and Pacta Conventa
  • 6.2 Cardinal Laws in Polish Tradition and Legal System
  • 7 Relation Between the Constitution and the Ordinary Legislation: Nullification of the Law Contravening to the Constitution
  • 8 The Procedure of Constitutional Revision
  • 9 Summary
  • 10 Summary (Polish)
  • References
  • 4 The Codification of the Polish Substantial Criminal Law in the Sejm Debates 1818
  • Abstract
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Origins of the 1815 Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland
  • 3 General Characteristics of the Constitution of 1815
  • 4 Regulations in the 1815 Constitution Concerning the Criminal Law
  • 5 The Enactment of the Polish Criminal Code of 1818
  • 6 The Evaluation of the Congruity of the Criminal Code of 1818 with the 1815 Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland
  • 7 Conclusions
  • 8 Summary (Polish)
  • References
  • 5 Constitutional Precedence and the Genesis of the Belgian Constitution of 1831
  • Abstract
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 From Fundamental Law to Belgian Constitution
  • 2.1 The Fundamental Law and the Question of Royal Sovereignty
  • 2.2 'Constitutionals' Versus 'Ministerials': Belgian Constitutional Opposition
  • 2.3 Towards a New Legal Order
  • 2.4 Constituent Power
  • 2.5 The Question of Constitutionality
  • 3 Precedence in the Belgian Constitution
  • 3.1 Differentiation from Normal Legislation
  • 3.2 The Oath on the Constitution
  • 3.3 Judicial Review
  • 4 Epilogue: Constitutional Discourse After 1831
  • 5 Summary (Dutch): Grondwettelijke Voorrang en het Ontstaan van de Belgische Grondwet van 1831.
  • 6 Summary (French): La Primauté de La Constitution et La Genèse de La Constitution Belge de 1831
  • References
  • 6 Inaugurating a Dutch Napoleon? Conservative Criticism of the 1815 Constitution of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
  • Abstract
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Dutch-Belgian Constitution of 1815
  • 3 International Context
  • 4 The Right to Declare War (Art. 57-58)
  • 5 Leave Us as We Are: Jan-Jozef Raepsaet the Constitution as a Pactum
  • 6 Epilogue: The Eclipse of the Monarchical Principle
  • References
  • 7 Constituent Power and Constitutionalism in 19th Century Norway
  • Abstract
  • 1 What Is a Constitution? Delegation, Octroi or Contract?
  • 2 The Case of Norway
  • 3 Background: The Constituent Power and the Norwegian 1814 Constitution
  • 3.1 The 1814 Constitutional Assembly as the Embodiment of the Constituent Power
  • 3.2 International Context and Influences
  • 4 Context: The Constituent Power in Post 1814 Restoration Era Europe
  • 4.1 The Monarchical Principle and the Constituent Power
  • 4.2 The Monarchical Principle and the Separation of Powers
  • 5 Who is the Constituent Power? Norwegian Constitutionalism Contested 1824-1884
  • 5.1 The Monarchical Principle Introduced to Norway
  • 5.2 Contract or Delegation? Competing Views on the Constitution's Character
  • 5.3 The Constituent Power as an Argument for Judicial Review
  • 5.4 The Royal Veto Put to the Test
  • 5.5 The Impeachment Case of 1883-1884
  • 5.6 The Constituent Power Decided
  • 6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Records of the Constitutional Assembly in 1814
  • Records of the Norwegian Parliament and Extraorinary Parliament, Royal Propositions
  • Court Decisions
  • Records of the Court of Impeachment in 1883-1884
  • Treaties
  • Constitutions, Norway
  • Constitutions
  • 8 In Keeping with the Spirit of the Albertine Statute-Constitutionalisation of the National Unification.
  • Abstract
  • 1 Overview
  • 2 Constitution, Charte and Statuto: Different Names for the Same Thing?
  • 3 Albertine Statute as Fundamental Law
  • 3.1 The Albertine Statute by Means of Its Preamble
  • 3.2 Constitutional/Unconstitutional Law in Parliamentary Acts
  • 4 Theories on Constitutional Revision
  • 4.1 Immutability of the Constitution and Constituent Power
  • 4.2 Omnipotence of Parliament
  • 4.3 Intermediate Theory
  • 5 Flexibility and Elasticity of the Constitution in the Legal Debate
  • 6 Interpreting the Constitution: Letter of Statute, Customs and Practice
  • 7 National Unification by Constitutionalisation
  • 8 Epilogue
  • 9 Summary (Italian)
  • References
  • 9 Legal Hierarchies in the Works of Hans Kelsen and Adolf Julius Merkl
  • Abstract
  • References
  • Appendix A: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Du Jury Constitutionnaire (an III)
  • Presented on 18 Thermidor III (5 August 1795)
  • Appendix B: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Du Jury Constitutionnaire (an III)
  • Presented on 18 Thermidor III (5 August 1795)
  • Appendix C: Projet de Constitution pour le Royaume de Pologne, 1812
  • Appendix D: Projet de Constitution pour le Royaume de Pologne, 1812
  • Draft of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland 1812
  • About the Authors
  • Index.

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