File #2634: "2019_Book_WesternConstitutionalism.pdf"

2019_Book_WesternConstitutionalism.pdf

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1|Foreword|5
2|References|7
1|Contents|8
1|1: The Forge of Constitutionalism: Rediscovering the Heritage of Resistance Against Political Power|11
2|1.1 Constitutionalism: A Definition|12
2|1.2 The Contribution of Ancient Constitutionalism|13
2|1.3 The Foundation of the Nation State in the Modern Age|19
2|1.4 The Minority Paths of Constitutionalism in the Age of Absolute Sovereignty|24
2|References|26
1|2: Achievements: Constitutionalism in the Age of the Modern Revolutions|27
2|2.1 Triggering the Constitutional Experience|29
2|2.2 The Origins of English Constitutionalism, Between Political Struggle and Legal Structure|29
2|2.3 The Rediscovery of Constitutionalism in English Thought: Republicanism and Liberalism|33
2|2.4 The First and the Second English Revolution: The Settlement of the Constitutional Monarchy|35
2|2.5 The Bill of Rights of 1689 and the Origins of the Constitutional Guarantee of Individual Rights|38
2|2.6 American Constitutionalism: Foundations|41
2|2.7 The American Revolution|43
2|2.8 From Independence to the Philadelphia Convention: The Revolutionary Decade|45
2|2.9 The Philadelphia Convention|46
2|2.10 The Federal Constitution|48
2|2.11 The Ratification Process and the Bill of Rights|57
2|2.12 The Settlement of the Judicial Review of Legislation|59
2|2.13 Constitutionalism and the French Revolution: Historical and Theoretical Premises|62
2|2.14 From the Pallacorda Oath to the Declaration of Rights|64
2|2.15 Constitutional History of the French Revolution|68
2|2.16 Western Constitutional Paths: Convergence or Divergence?|71
2|References|74
1|3: The Different Paths of Western Constitutional Law in the 19th Century|75
2|3.1 Constitutionalism and the Liberal State|76
2|3.2 The English Conventional Constitution: From a Constitutional Monarchy to a Parliamentary Government|77
2|3.3 The Progress of American Constitutional Law in the 19th Century. From the Early Republic to the Civil War|80
2|3.4 Liberal Constitutionalism in the 19th Century Europe|84
2|3.5 The Development of Public Administration in the Liberal State|92
2|3.6 Principle of Legality and Rule of Law|94
2|References|99
1|4: Constitutionalism in the Age of Democratization|101
2|4.1 Constitutionalism and Democracy at the Beginning of the 20th Century|102
2|4.2 The Evolution of the American Constitution|103
2|4.3 The United Kingdom Between the Two World Wars|109
2|4.4 The European Constitutions Between Democratization and Rationalization of the Parliamentary Government|112
2|4.5 A European Invention: The Centralized Review of the Legislation|114
2|4.6 The Weimar Constitution|117
2|4.7 Toward the Catastrophe|121
2|References|124
1|5: Analyzing the Pattern of Constitutional Democracy: The Anglo-American Experience|125
2|5.1 Constitutional Democracy After the Second World War|126
2|5.2 The Constitutional Orders of Canada, Australia and New Zealand|128
2|5.3 English Constitutionalism Between the Devolution and the Constitutional Reform Act|135
2|5.4 The United States of America from Post–World War II Until Modern Times|142
2|References|152
1|6: Analyzing the Pattern of Constitutional Democracy: The European Experience|154
2|6.1 A New Beginning: Contemporary Constitutionalism in Europe|155
2|6.2 The General Features of European Contemporary Constitutionalism|157
2|6.3 The Italian Constitution of 1948|172
2|6.4 The German Basic Law of 1949|178
2|6.5 The French Fifth Republic Constitution (1958)|187
2|References|195
1|7: From the Open Constitutional State to the European Constitutional Space|196
2|7.1 Toward a European Constitutional Space|197
2|7.2 The European Convention on Human Rights and its Relevance in the National Legal Orders|201
2|7.3 The European Court of Strasbourg and the Increasing Role of Judicial Dialogue, as a Driver of Global Constitutionalism|208
2|7.4 The European Union: Historical Origins|211
2|7.5 The New System of the Treaties and the Ambivalent Identity of the EU|211
2|7.6 The “Democratic Life” and the European Institutional Framework|213
2|7.7 Sources of Law of the EU Legal Order|218
2|7.8 The Court of Justice of the European Union|222
2|7.9 The Protection of Fundamental Rights in the European Union|224
2|7.10 The European Constitutional Space Between Integration and Resistances|229
2|References|231
1|8: The Worldwide Expansion of Constitutional Democracy|233
2|8.1 Trends of Expansion|234
2|8.2 The Expansion of Constitutionalism in Western Europe|235
2|8.3 Decolonization and Constitutionalism in Asia|240
2|8.4 Decolonization and Constitutionalism in Africa|246
2|8.5 Constitutionalism in Latin America|247
2|8.6 The End of Communism and the Ambivalent Expansion of Constitutionalism in East-Central Europe|250
2|8.7 The Tradition of Western Constitutionalism in the Global Landscape|254
2|References|257