Constitutional Mythologies New Perspectives on Controlling the State /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Marciano, Alain (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Public Choice, 23
• Subjects: Political science.; Political philosophy.; Constitutional law.; Economic policy.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Political Philosophy.; Economic Policy.; Constitutional Law.

Our societies obviously rest on common beliefs. These "myths" are tools that help us to develop and build common identities; they form the structure around which societies function. This does not imply that these beliefs are “true,” in the sense that they would be supported by empirical fa...

Table of Contents:

• Binding Contract or Evolving Focal Point of Coordination: The Meaning of Constitutional Political Economy
• Consent, or Coercion? A Critical Analysis of the Constitutional Contract
• Identity, Constitutions and Constitutional Political Economy
• Power Relations in the Canadian Constitution: The Myths We are Expected to Believe
• Checks and Balances at the OK Corral: Restraining Leviathan
• Popular Sovereignty: A Case Study from the Antebellum Era
• The Constitution of a Direct Democracy
• Constitutional Political Economy
• The Myth of the Constitution as an Economic Document – Do Constitutions Enable Entire Societies to Make Them Better Off?- The European Court of Justice. a Guarantor or a Ianus Geminus?- A Comparison of Central Bank and Judicial Independence
• The Dual Rationale of Judicial Independence in Constitutional Discourse.