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Author
Title
Constitutional democracy / by János Kis.
Uniform Title
Alkotmányos demokrácia. English
Published
Budapest ; New York : CEU Press, 2003.
Call Number
JC423 .K53713 2003
Edition
English edition.
ISBN
9639241288
9639241326 (pbk.)
9639241326 (pbk.)
Description
xvi, 324 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)55754291
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Notes
The Common Good and Civic Virtue
1
Liberalism and republicanism
3
2
The preference-aggregating model
9
3
The ethical model: the responsible voter
11
4
The ethical model: the relation between private and communal preferences
17
5
The ethical model: public debate and voting
21
6
On the relation of the two models
25
7
Liberalism and the descriptive claims of the ethical model
29
8
Virtue in politics
35
9
The politics of virtue and personal autonomy
39
10
Concluding remarks
43
Liberal Democracy - Against the Compromise Thesis
1
Introduction
53
2
The conflict
57
3
Constitutional constraints, constitutional review
61
4
Political equality and rule by the majority
65
5
Equality of votes and equality of voters
71
6
Contractarian theory: the selection of voting rules
75
7
A weakness of contractarian theory
81
8
The typology of preferences
85
9
Filtering the preferences of the contracting parties
91
10
Moral discussion before the contract
97
11
The mandate of the guardians of the constitution
103
12
Summary and restrictions
109
Constitutional Review
1
Introduction
1.1
Two Conceptions
120
1.2
Questions of Principle and Questions of Regulation
124
1.3
The Means of Judicial Interpretation of the Constitution
127
1.4
A Brief Overview of What Follows
129
2
Interpreting the constitution
2.1
Popular Sovereignty
133
2.2
Only That Which is "in the Text"
142
2.3
Strict Reading
146
2.4
Historical Readings
150
2.5
Substantive Readings: Structural Interpretations
152
2.6
Substantive Interpretations: the Moral Reading
156
2.7
Special Objections: the Structural Reading
159
2.8
Special Objections: the Moral Reading
162
2.9
Substantive Readings: Critical Interpretation
167
2.10
General Objections against Substantive Reading
172
2.11
Constitution Making
175
3
Striking down legislation
3.1
Once again on Popular Sovereignty
183
3.2
"The Tyranny of the Majority"
188
3.3
The Power of Self-Binding: Analogies from Individual Action
194
3.4
Communal Agency
202
3.5
Constitutional Self-Binding
208
3.6
Judicial Review, Substantive Reading
220
3.7
The Limits of Constitutional Review
226
3.8
Precautionary Guidelines
230
3.9
Summary
235
The Legacy of the First Hungarian Constitutional Court
1
The interpretive practice of the Constitutional Court
1.1
The Self-Understanding of the Court: Substantive Reading
250
1.2
Critical Reading: the Abolition of the Death Penalty
253
1.3
Strict Textualism: the Issue of the Legal Status of Fetuses
260
1.4
A Shift in Self-Understanding: Transitional Justice
271
1.5
The Decline of Rights Adjudication
278
1.6
The Upsurge of Welfare Protection
285
1.7
The Paradoxes of Welfare Protection
295
2
Summary and a glance to the Future
2.1
Theses
303
2.2
Measuring the First Constitutional Court by Our Theses
305
2.3
From "Legal Revolution" to the "Consolidation of the Rule of Law"
306
Index
321