Publication

1997 - Duke University Press, Durham, N.C, North Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

75,000 words, Guess

Page Count

300 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing624274
  • Goodreads2786887

Classifications

  • DDC342.43
  • LCCKK4710 .C35 1997

Description

Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law is a historical analysis of competing doctrines of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic. It chronicles the creation of a new constitutional jurisprudence both adequate to the needs of a modern welfare state and based on the principle of popular sovereignty. Peter C. Caldwell explores the legal nature of democracy as debated by Weimar's political theorists and constitutional lawyers. Laying the groundwork for questions about constitutional law in today's Federal Republic, this book draws clear and insightful distinctions between strands of positivist and anti-positivist legal thought, and examines their implications for legal and political theory.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Popular sovereignty and the crisis of German constitutional law: the theory & practice of Weimar constitutionalismDuke University Press1997-01-01

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