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In the eighth century, Charles Martel confiscated Church property to make distributions of benefices and precaria to his vassals. This project was an investment in state capacity and secularizations of Church property were continued under Charles' son Pippin III. Many scholars have characterized...
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The Treaty of Lisbon is analyzed as the constitution of the European Union drawing on the tools of constitutional … tremendous hurdles to explicitly change the constitution in combination with the large number of memberstates further re …
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This article re-examines the relationship between constitutional monarchy and economic growth in Europe. We suggest that economic growth explains the survival of constitutional monarchy rather than vice versa. The empirical results are consistent with our hypothesis
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The South African concept of constitutional citizenship draws on national and African traditions in addition to its … firm grounding in international law. Furthermore, as drafted, it crystallizes the potential to ground national citizenship … within a global order. This potential remains apparent in the interpretations of constitutional citizenship offered, thus far …
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"This book explores how constitutional awareness occurs in different countries and how this plays a role in citizenship …
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) Constitution. In particular it elaborated on the philosophical background and legal categorizations of a European citizenship, and …
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There have been sharp divisions of opinion throughout Fiji's modern history between those advocating an integrated, nonracial state, based on individual rights, and those in favor of a political order based on ethnic communities. Integration and consociation, perhaps, are not apt terms to...
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