Thinking About Constitutionalism at the Start of the Twenty-First Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6375939 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald S Lutz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 115-135 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Publius The Journal of Federalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-5950 • E-ISSN: 1747-7107 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a030099 |
| OpenAlex | W1964084561 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
At the beginning of a new century, constitutional democracy seems ascendant almost to the point of a universal inevitability. What follows is in part a cautionary tale and in part an assessment of where we now stand in one of history's most hopeful long-term trends. An examination of the diffusion of constitutional democracy, and of general trends in cross-national constitutional developments since World War II, leads to a consideration of the manner and extent to which modern constitutionalism embodies a recapitulation of human cultural and political evolution. The culture-power-justice nexus that characterizes modem constitutionalism was first dissected by Montesquieu, and an examination of his approach to constitutionalism provides a useful window into why we developed the political technology of constitutional democracy and why the future of this technology is not a foregone conclusion
Constitutional law · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Economic Justice · Law and economics · Nexus (standard · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2003 - 2021 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |