Book contents
- The Story of Constitutions
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- The Story of Constitutions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Constitutional Diffusion
- 2 Constitutions Everywhere
- 3 The Origin of Constitutions
- Part II The History of the Constitution
- Part III Concepts, Shapes and Types of Constitutions
- Part IV Effects
- Part V The Imagined Order of the Constitution
- References
- Name & Author Index
- Subject Index
2 - Constitutions Everywhere
from Part I - Constitutional Diffusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2023
Book contents
- The Story of Constitutions
- Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
- The Story of Constitutions
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Prologue
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Constitutional Diffusion
- 2 Constitutions Everywhere
- 3 The Origin of Constitutions
- Part II The History of the Constitution
- Part III Concepts, Shapes and Types of Constitutions
- Part IV Effects
- Part V The Imagined Order of the Constitution
- References
- Name & Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
This chapter tries to give some first preliminary answers to the global surge of constitutions. Are they the result of a contingent development of human history and/or human thought? The breakthrough of Enlightenment and our better insight in the exigencies of natural law? Or are they rather the product of human evolution, human nature and social evolution? Or are they simply the by-product of something else (e.g. the democratic waves, or globalizing markets)?
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- The Story of ConstitutionsDiscovering the We in Us, pp. 33 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023