Constitutions, Politics, and Identity

Alan Hamlin

Chapter Chapter 4 in Constitutional Mythologies, 2011, pp 39-51 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract What are Constitutions and, if Constitutions are constitutive, what do they constitute? Each of these questions might give rise to at least two different answers. In a legalistic vein a Constitution might be defined as a document or set of documents that codify the role and process of government by enumerating and limiting the powers of government and describing the processes by which government operates. In a more social vein a Constitution might be taken to be the complex of laws, customs, traditions, norms and conventions that, taken together, provide a more or less complete description of the way in which the society operates.

Keywords: Expressive Behavior; Political Constitution; Constitutional Reform; Constitutional Political Economy; Constitutional Choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6784-8_4

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