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Laicism : idolatry trap or constitutional nihilism

Alnasir, Samer - 2022

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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The Comparative Constitutional Compliance Database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2022

, whereas military dictatorships perform the worst. Although compliance is not determined by a constitution’s breadth … the constitution achieve higher compliance levels …

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Constitutions and Order : A Theory and Evidence from Colombia and the United States

Fergusson, Leopoldo; Mejia, Javier; Robinson, James A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We propose a framework to explain why some societies may end up with different constitutional solutions to the problem of maintaining order in the face of self-interested behavior. Though the salient intellectual tradition since Hobbes has focused on how institutional design is used to eradicate...

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The Shape of Citizenship : Extraordinary Common Meaning and Constitutional Legitimacy

McNeill, David N.; Tucker, Emily - 2023

those clauses in the US Constitution that refer to fundamental rights and freedoms. This concern with “textualism,” however … the normative foundation of that community.Part Three focuses on the First Amendment of the US Constitution with two aims …

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The Constitutionality of Prohibiting Caste Discrimination

Krishnamurthi, Guha - 2023

matter they should refrain from unnecessarily disparaging religion. As with other forms of discrimination, our Constitution …

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Self-Coup and the Constitution

Hemel, Daniel J. - 2023

A “self-coup”—or “autogolpe”—is the sudden seizure of power by a President or other chief executive in contravention of a nation’s laws. Although the term “self-coup” is relatively new, the phenomenon was familiar to the Framers, who made references at the Constitutional...

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The Environmental Rights Provisions of U.S. State Constitutions : A Comparative Analysis

Dernbach, John C. - 2023

Nearly every U.S. state has environmental provisions in its constitution. These provisions cover a wide range of issues …

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The nation-state foundations of constitutional compliance

Grajzl, Peter; Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

We bring attention to a previously overlooked determinant of de jure-de facto constitutional gaps: a polity's transition to a nation-state. We argue that nation-statehood, predicated on the formation of a strong sense of national identity, lowers the government's incentive to violate...

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The comparative constitutional compliance database

Gutmann, Jerg; Metelska-Szaniawska, Katarzyna; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

This article introduces a novel database that measures governments' compliance with national constitutions. It combines information on de jure constitutional rules with data on their de facto implementation. The individual compliance indicators can be grouped into four categories that we...

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Mapping Constitutionally Safeguarded Judicial Independence — A Global Survey

Hayo, Bernd; Voigt, Stefan - 2023

explicitly anchoring JI in the constitution: countries belonging to the common law tradition are less likely to implement JI in … whether JI is included in the constitution: societies experiencing a high level of religious fractionalization are not only … connected with a lower likelihood of JI being mentioned in the constitution …

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