Borrowing Constitutional Designs
Subtitle: Constitutional Law in Weimar Germany and the French Fifth Republic
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780691123455
Subjects: Constitutional & administrative law; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; Political Process - General; Democracy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; France; Germany; Constitutional; Constitutions; Constitution: government & the state; European History; Law; Political Science / Constitutions; Political Science and International Relations; Europe - General; Constitutional history; Executive power
First sentence: THE RATHER HEATED debate over constitutional design and democracy has almost exclusively concerned two constitutional types: parliamentarism and presidentialism.