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constitution, or the act of 1905, it’s not what it appear, and mostly known in the french literature, this article is to reject all … questions of how the idea of laicism has been reversed into the interwar period thus to the 1958 constitution to be developed in …
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Although democracy is today the most common form of government, the Law and Economics literature has neglected for a long time the role of social preferences in lawmaking. This article aims at capturing the endogenous process of lawmaking: in democracies, people partly determine the law they...
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In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...
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The Constitution of Tonga, 132 years old in 2007 -- indeed one of the world's oldest extant constitutions -- has …
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Is "rule of law" anything more than a fictional allusion? After all, "law" is an abstract noun, and abstract nouns can't rule. Only people can rule. Rule of law is a fiction, one that has been around since ancient times. Whether, or under what circumstances, rule of law might be an ideal type...
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constitution-making, which is nearly universally used, lacks a clear theoretical justification. Qualified majority rules increase … constitution-making processes in Poland, Bolivia and Egypt, which are three examples of diverging majority rules …
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recognize health while the U.S. Constitution contains no reference. Ample scholarly commentary exists on the absence of a right … to health care under the U.S. Constitution but little attention has been paid to state constitutional law. This Article … conclusion is that state constitutions, although providing stronger textual support for health than the U.S. Constitution, do not …
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