Ebook: Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law: The Theory and Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism
- Tags: Heller Hermann -- 1891-1933, Kelsen Hans -- 1881-1973, Schmitt Carl -- 1888-1985, Smend Rudolf -- 1882-1975, Deutsches Reich -- Die Verfassung des Deutschen Reichs, Schmitt Carl (Jurist), Kelsen Hans, Heller Hermann (Jurist), Smend Rudolf (Jurist), Constitutional history -- Germany, Constitutional law -- Germany -- Philosophy -- History, Constituent power -- Germany -- History, Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933, Droit constitutionnel -- Allemagne -- Histoire -- Philosophie, Pouvoir const
- Year: 1997
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- City: Allemagne, Array, Durham, N.C., Germany, Germany.
- Language: English
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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 Read more...