Interpreting Constitutions: A Comparative Study - Softcover

 
9780199226474: Interpreting Constitutions: A Comparative Study
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ISBN 10: 0199226474 ISBN 13: 9780199226474
Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book describes the constitutions of six major federations and how they have been interpreted by their highest courts. The study compares the interpretive methods that have guided the courts, and explores the reasons for major differences between these methods, looking to the different social, historical, institutional and political circumstances.

Among the interpretive methods discussed are textualism, purposivism, structuralism and originalism. Each of the six federations is the subject of a separate chapter written by a leading authority in the field: Jeffrey Goldsworthy (Australia), Peter Hogg (Canada), Donald Kommers (Germany), S.P. Sathe (India), Heinz Klug (South Africa), and Mark Tushnet (United States). Each chapter describes not only the interpretive methodology currently used by the courts, but the evolution of that methodology since the constitution was first enacted. The book also includes a concluding chapter which compares these methodologies, and attempts to explain variations by reference to different social, historical, institutional and political circumstances.

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Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Professor of Law, Monash University

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199226474
ISBN 13 
9780199226474
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
384
Editor
Goldsworthy Jeffrey

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