History &amp; Constitution

Luigi Lacchè

doi:10.5771/9783465142850

Summary

This volume gathers together 25 essays dedicated to the history of four important constitutional experiments (France, Belgium, Switzerland and Italy). While it considers these experiments and developments in the 19th and 20th centuries, comparative constitutional history, nevertheless, offers the possibility of obtaining a wider purview. It is in this sense that we can speak of the myth of the English constitution pervading the discourses and language of the French liberals, of Belgium being referred to as “Little England” in Italy, and the Modell Deutschland as increasingly becoming an object of fascination for Italian scholars of public law. In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville analysed the situation in Switzerland and compared the different kinds of federalism present in America and in Europe. A European comparative constitutional history, taking up a global perspective, can help us to better decipher two very important issues pertinent to our times: first, for assessing the identity and the constitutional substance of a living common core of the European constitutional traditions; and second, for considering constitutional history as a useful tool to address different levels of global constitutionalism and new trends of governance. History & Constitution offers not only insights into the past, but also provides some guidelines for the future.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-3-465-04285-3
ISBN-Online: 978-3-465-14285-0
Publisher: Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main
Series: Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte
Language: English
Pages: 722
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - X
When history meets the constitution No access Pages 1 - 14
1. Costituzioni e federalismo nella Svizzera del XIX secolo No access
2. Una "mobile complessità" No access
1. La costituzione belga del 1831 No access
2. Constitución, Monarquía, Parlamento No access
1. Coppet et la percée de l'État libéral constitutionnel No access
2. Granted Constitutions No access
3. La garanzia della Costituzione No access
4. Governo rappresentativo e principio parlamentare No access
5. La razionalizzazione ottocentesca No access
6. "Gouverner n'est point administrer. Régner est encore autre chose que gouverner" No access
1. Responsabilità ministeriale No access
2. L'ordine costituzionale liberale nel XIX secolo No access
3. Il "discorso" costituzionale nell'opera di Giuseppe Pisanelli No access
4. Il potere giudiziario come "potere politico" in Attilio Brunialti No access
5. Das "französische Verwaltungsmodell" und die italienische Rechtskultur im 19. Jahrhundert No access
6. L'opinione pubblica nazionale e l'appello al popolo No access
7. Per una teoria costituzionale dell'opinione pubblica No access
8. Lo Stato giuridico e la costituzione sociale No access
9. Il nome della libertà. Tre dimensioni nel secolo della Costituzione (1848-1948) No access
10. La "lotta per il regolamento" No access
11. La "sentenza Mortara" e il voto politico alle donne No access
12. La Corte e il costituzionalismo No access
13. Il tempo e i tempi della Costituzione No access
1. Europa "una et diversa" No access
2. The Italian Constitutional Tradition and the Debate around a European Constitution No access
Index of Authors No access Pages 707 - 722