Constitution

About: Constitution is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 37828 publications have been published within this topic receiving 435603 citations.

Concept formation in social science

Abstract: 1. Concepts of Science 2. Concepts in Science 3. Constitution 4. Max Weber and Concept Formation in Sociology 5. Concepts of Society

Indonesian constitutional reform 1999-2002: an evaluation of constitution-making in transition

Abstract: ................................................................................................................................i DECLARATION ..............................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS...............................................................Error! Bookmark not defined. TABLE OF CONTENTS..............................................................................................................v GLOSSARY.............................................................................................................................xiii LIST OF TABLES....................................................................................................................xvi PART ONE: INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................1 CHAPTER ONE IN SEARCH OF A DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION....................................................2 A. Introduction .............................................................................................................2 B. Thesis Questions ....................................................................................................3 C. Why this Study is Important ....................................................................................4 1. The Four Failures of Indonesian Constitutional Reform.....................................4 a. The 1945 Constitution: A Temporary, Express and Revolutionary Constitution...................................................................................................4 b. The 1949 Constitution: A Temporary Federal Constitution ...........................5 c. The 1950 Provisional Constitution: A more Democratic but Temporary Constitution...................................................................................................6 d. The Konstituante’s Constitutional Draft: An Unfinished Democratic Constitution?.................................................................................................7 2. The Nationalism versus Islamic state Constitutional Debates............................9 3. The Importance of the 1999-2002 Constitutional Reform ................................13 D. Thesis Overview ...................................................................................................14 1. Focus of the Study...........................................................................................14 2. Research Methodology....................................................................................14 3. Thesis Outline..................................................................................................15

Sustaining a Confessional State: The Irish Parliament and Catholicism

Abstract: The composite monarchies of eighteenth-century Europe were confessional states in which dissentients from the state religion were subjected, to a greater or lesser extent, to legal sanctions that deprived them of political, religious and civil rights. Grounded in the conviction that ‘an establishment in church and state’ was a ‘necessity’ if stable and effective government was to be maintained, it was long an axiom with the political elite in Britain and Ireland that this was dependent on the preservation intact of ‘the Protestant constitution’, brought into being by the Glorious Revolution.1 In practice, this meant penalising those of other confessions — Roman Catholics and Dissenters, particularly — because they were precluded by their religious beliefs from committing themselves wholly and unambiguously to uphold the confessional order. The rationale for this was articulated with exceptional clarity in 1786 by Richard Woodward, the Church of Ireland bishop of Cloyne, when, he propounded that, of ‘the three persuasions’ to which the majority of Ireland’s population adhered, ‘the members of the established church alone can be cordial friends to the entire constitution of this realm, with perfect consistency of principle’. As a consequence, it was ‘the business of the Protestant government … to preclude [the Roman Catholic] as much as possible from influence for fear of losing the power of control’, and to marginalise those who adhered to the Presbyterian church because they aspired ‘to pull down’ the ‘ecclesiastical establishment’ that was integral to ‘the Protestant constitution in church and state’.2

Confounding Cultural Citizenship and Constitutional Reform in Bolivia

Abstract: The Bolivian constitution ratified in January 2009 has been hailed as a watershed in the effort to empower the indigenous majority. However, in addition to an entrenched political opposition in the lowland half of the country, some observers have pointed to the constitution’s “Aymara-centric” character, suggesting that it has left some people unrecognized and unrepresented. Examination of associational life in the urban provincial capital of Quillacollo, where what it means to be indigenous is quite different from that which the constitution valorizes and confirms, helps of clarify the challenges of multicultural or plurinational legal reforms based upon cultural citizenship. A central challenge is that of transcending a conception of legal rights and claims inhering in citizenship as mutually exclusively either individual or collective.