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Constitutions, Politics, and Identity

In: Constitutional Mythologies

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  • Alan Hamlin

    (University of Manchester)

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What are Constitutions and, if Constitutions are constitutive, what do they constitute? Each of these questions might give rise to at least two different answers. In a legalistic vein a Constitution might be defined as a document or set of documents that codify the role and process of government by enumerating and limiting the powers of government and describing the processes by which government operates. In a more social vein a Constitution might be taken to be the complex of laws, customs, traditions, norms and conventions that, taken together, provide a more or less complete description of the way in which the society operates.

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  • Alan Hamlin, 2011. "Constitutions, Politics, and Identity," Studies in Public Choice, in: Alain Marciano (ed.), Constitutional Mythologies, chapter 0, pages 39-51, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:stpchp:978-1-4419-6784-8_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6784-8_4
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