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


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21 Sep 2002
TL;DR: Sieder and Stavenhagen as discussed by the authors discuss the relationship between Indigenous civil society and the state in the Andes region of South America, and discuss the implications of multi-ethnic policies for water reform in Bolivia.
Abstract: Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Tables Introduction R.Sieder Indigenous Peoples and the State in Latin America: An Opening Debate R.Stavenhagen Constitutional Reform in the Andes: Redefining Indigenous-State Relations D.L.Van Cott Bolivia: From Indian and Campesino Leaders to Councillors and Parliamentary Deputies X.Albo Educational Reform in Guatemala: Lessons from Negotiations between Indigenous Civil Society and the State D.Cojti Cuxil Social Citizenship, Ethnic Minority Demands, Human Rights and Neoliberal Paradoxes: A Case Study in Western Mexico G.de la Pena Peru: Pluralist Constitution, Monist Judiciary: A Post-Reform Assessment R.Yrigoyen Fajardo Recognizing Indigenous Law and the Politics of State Formation in Mesoamerica R.Sieder Latin America's Multiculturalism: Economic and Agrarian Dimensions R.Plant Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Participatory Development: The Experience of the World Bank in Latin America S.H.Davis The Excluded 'Indigenous'? The Implications of Multi-Ethnic Policies for Water Reform in Bolivia N.Laurie, R.Andolina & S.Radcliffe Bibliography Index

252 citations

Book
01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: Crawford as mentioned in this paper provides a balanced, comprehensive guide to this complex and often confusing debate, which is an essential handbook and reference for advocates, educators, policymakers, jurists, scholars, and citizens who seek to join this debate fully informed.
Abstract: As late as 1987, two-thirds of the Americans who responded to a national survey believed that English was the official language of the United States. In fact, the Constitution is silent on the issue. Since Senator S. I. Hayakawa first proposed an English Language Amendment in Congress in 1981, Official English has been considered in forty-seven states and adopted by seventeen; the amendment is pending in the 102d Congress. Supporters argue that English has always been our common language--a means of resolving conflicts in a nation of diverse racial, ethnic, and religious groups, and an essential tool of social mobility and cultural integration. Opponents charge that the amendment is unnecessary and that it threatens civil rights, educational opportunities, and free speech, wrapping racist biases in a cloak of patriotism. Language Loyalties: A Source Book on the Official English Controversy provides a balanced, comprehensive guide to this complex and often confusing debate. It is an essential handbook and reference for advocates, educators, policymakers, jurists, scholars, and citizens who seek to join this debate fully informed. Addressing the issues involved in developing America's first planned national language policy, James Crawford has expertly collected and introduced more than eighty-five source documents and articles.

251 citations

Book
01 Jan 1911
TL;DR: One of the genuine classics of American political science literature, constitutional government in the United States is also a subtle and influential criticism of the American founding fathers produced during the Progressive Era as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: One of the genuine classics of American political science literature, Constitutional Government in the United States is also a subtle and influential criticism of the American founding fathers produced during the Progressive Era. Wilson's interpretation of the Constitution shaped the thought of scholars and students of American politics. His definition of constitutional government and the place of the United States in the development of constitutional theory continues to shape discourse today. Wilson discusses the three branches of government in the United States, the relation between the states and the federal government and party government in a manner quite distinct from the founding fathers. Constitutional Government has its origins in a series of lectures Wilson delivered at Columbia University in 1907. It is carefully organized around three separate but mutually supporting arguments. First, is the idea that constitutional government evolves historically from primitive beginnings of the state toward a universal and ideal form. Second, this idea of historical evolution contains within it an analysis of how and where the Constitution fits into the evolutionary process as a whole. Third, the historical thesis itself provides a prescription for bringing American government, and with it the Constitution, into accord with his first principle of the ideal form of modern government.In his new introduction, Sidney A. Pearson explores how, with Constitutional Government in the United States, Wilson helped create a new genre of political writing using the point of view of a "literary politician." He discusses Wilson's intention to replace the constitutional argument of the founders with one of his own based on the application of Darwinian metaphor in a political science framework. And he examines the differences between the views launched by Wilson and those set forth by James Madison in The Federalist. This is an essential work for all interested in the evolution of American political thought.

250 citations

Book ChapterDOI
05 Jul 2017
TL;DR: The Supreme Court of the United States is also a political institution, an institution that is to say, for arriving at decisions on controversial questions of national policy, and it is this role that gives rise to the problem of the Court's existence in a political system ordinarily held to be democratic.
Abstract: Considered as a political system, democracy is a set of basic procedures for arriving at decisions. To Consider the Supreme Court of the United States Strictly as a legal institution is to underestimate its significance in the American political system. For it is also a political institution, an institution, that is to say, for arriving at decisions on controversial questions of national policy. Court must choose among controversial alternatives of public policy by appealing to at least some criteria of acceptability on questions of fact and value that cannot be found in or deduced from precedent, statute, and Constitution. It is in this sense that the Court is a national policy-maker, and it is this role that gives rise to the problem of the Court's existence in a political system ordinarily held to be democratic. Justices are typically men who, prior to appointment, have engaged in public life and have committed themselves publicly on the great questions of the day.

246 citations

Book
15 Apr 2011
TL;DR: The nature of the community: Integration, Democracy and Legitimacy The Institutional Development of the EU: A Constitutional Analysis The EU as a 'Layered' International Organisation: Institutional Unity in Disguise External Relations and External Competence: The Emergence of an Integrated Policy Direct Effect, Supremacy and the Nature of the Legal Order Article 177 in Social and Political Context European Administrative Law and the Global Challenge Remedies for Breaches of EC Law in National Courts: Legal Variation and Selection The European Court of Justice The Constitution of the Common Market Place: The Free
Abstract: The Nature of the Community: Integration, Democracy and Legitimacy The Institutional Development of the EU: A Constitutional Analysis The EU as a 'Layered' International Organisation: Institutional Unity in Disguise External Relations and External Competence: The Emergence of an Integrated Policy Direct Effect, Supremacy and the Nature of the Legal Order Article 177 in Social and Political Context European Administrative Law and the Global Challenge Remedies for Breaches of EC Law in National Courts: Legal Variation and Selection The European Court of Justice The Constitution of the Common Market Place: The Free Movement of Goods The Free Movement of Persons and Services EMU Revisited: Are We Making a Constitution? What Constitution Are We Making? EC 'Social' Policy The Principle of Equal Treatment: From Market Unifier to Fundamental Right? From the Margins to the Centre: Education and Training Law and Policy Competition Law and Intellectual Property Rights: Evolving Formalism Regional policy: An Evolutionary Perspective Inhabitants in the Field of EC Environmental Law Consumer Policy Community, State and Market Governance and the Single European Market

244 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
20232,090
20224,774
2021860
20201,213
20191,262