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Organizing the Impossible: Constitutional Law and Practice in Icaria
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In this paper, the authors scrutinize the key features of the Icaria's constitution and analyze the problems related to the enforcement of a Utopian constitution in a real social and political context.Abstract:
Icaria is one of those rare moments in social history when the Utopian dream has been tested in political and social practice. Based on legal settlements, the Icarian experience at Nauvoo offers a unique opportunity to check the relationship among law, Utopia, and dystopia. The essay scrutinizes the key features of the Icaria’s constitution and analyzes the problems related to the enforcement of a Utopian constitution in a real social and political context.read more
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Utopian Communism in France: Cabet and the Icarians, 1839–1851: Johnson, Christopher H.: Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 324 pp., Publication Date: December 30, 1974
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The 'Checks and Balances' Doctrine in Member States as a Rule of EC Law: The Cases of France and Germany
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The Concept of Law
TL;DR: The Foundations of a Legal System as mentioned in this paper is an example of a legal system based on formalism and rule-scepticism, and it can be seen as a union of primary and secondary rules.
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The Constitution of Liberty
TL;DR: Hayek's "The Constitution of Liberty" as discussed by the authors is a thorough exposition of a social philosophy which ranges from ethics and anthropology through jurisprudence and the history of ideas to the economics of the modern welfare state.
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The Concept of the Political
TL;DR: The concept of the political, expanded edition of Schmitt's "The Age of Neutralization and Depoliticization" as mentioned in this paper is a classic in political theory and philosophy, with a foreword by Tracy B. Strong.
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Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality
TL;DR: Equality is the endangered species of political ideas: even left-of-centre politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension as discussed by the authors.