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Conflict, Power, and the Landscape of Constitutionalism (Paperback)
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Conflict, Power, and the Landscape of Constitutionalism (Paperback)
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The book seeks to critically examine the implication of a
constitution of law for a political society. It presents a
collection of essays that seek to investigate how power acts on
power, how limits produce excess, how separation of powers produces
the union of powers (sanctified by the very constitution that had
guaranteed the division in the first place), and how the theory of
separation is, at the same time, a myth and a reality. At the
backdrop of the book, of course, is the theory that every good
constitution rigorously separates the legislature, the executive,
and the judiciary from one another to guarantee the independence of
each of these powers, such that this separation results in life,
liberty, and security. If a constitution, however, symbolises and
produces power, precisely because it separates one site of power
from another, it follows that it is power itself that is the limit
of power. Constitutionalism as a political culture of laws,
therefore, must explain the dynamics of power. The book addresses
both constitutions and the societies in which they emerge. Many of
the essays in this collection show how institutional practices
originating from a legal text create a matrix of power that owes
its life, neither to a contract between men, nor between the state
and men, nor even between the society and men, but rather to
relations established, organized, and formalized by laws. The
collection is significant because it gives colonial and
post-colonial experiences a justified place in studies of law and
constitutionalism, for it shows that while Montesquieu, Kant, and
Burke each in their own way were promoting the spirit of laws, a
more significant history of law-making was being enacted in order
to defend a particular rule, and a particular type of government on
another side of the world. Based on comparative studies in several
countries across three continents, the book centrally deals with
issues of constitutionalism, political representation and
citizenship.
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