Political constitutionalism : a Republican defence of the constitutionality of democracy

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Judicial review.

Constitutional law -- Philosophy.

Representative government and representation.

Democracy.

1. Constitutional rights and the limits of judicial review

2. The rule of law and the rule of persons

3. Constitutionalism and democracy

4. The norms of political constitutionalism: non-domination and and political equality

5. The forms of political constitutionalism: public reason and the balance of power

6. Bringing together norms and forms: the democratic constitution.

This book challenges the view that democracy and human rights are best protected by the legal process rather than the electoral process and is thus an important contribution to the debate over democracy and constitutionalism.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521683678

x, 270 p. ; 23 cm