Download or read book Los jueces constitucionales controlando al poder o controlados por el poder written by Allan R. Brewer Carias and published by Ediciones Olejnik. This book was released on 2023-11-24 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "En este libro, el profesor Allan R. Brewer-Carías estudia el funciona-miento de la Justicia Constitucional en el mundo contemporáneo a través del análisis de catorce casos significativos que han sido decididos recientemente por sendos tribunales constitucionales en los Estados Unidos, el Reino Unido, Honduras, Venezuela, República Dominicana, Nicaragua, Paraguay, El Salvador, y Suráfrica, en los que se ha manifestado la particular relación que existe entre el Juez Constitucional y el Poder. La Justicia Constitucional, como pieza esencial del Estado democrático de derecho, es el instrumento por excelencia para asegurar la supremacía de la Constitución, garantizar los derechos fundamentales y controlar las violaciones a la Constitución que puedan cometer los órganos de los Poderes del Estado. Por tanto, esencialmente, la Justicia Constitucional tiene por objeto el control del Poder para asegurar en nombre del pueblo la vigencia de su Constitución. Es, por tanto, hasta cierto punto, el sustituto de la revolución, en el sentido de que, si no existiese un sistema de Justicia Constitucional en los Estados democráticos, ante un gobierno ilegítimo o que viole la Constitución el único camino que tendría el pueblo sería el derecho a la rebelión. Para que la Justicia Constitucional pueda, por tanto, enfrentarse al Poder y someterlo a la Constitución en nombre del pueblo, la condición más esencial es que tiene que estar a cargo de un órgano autónomo e independiente. Solo así puede controlar al Poder; de lo contrario, se torna en un órgano controlado por el Poder y, por tanto, en el más vil instrumento de éste para violar impunemente la Constitución. Los casos judiciales analizados en este libro muestran precisamente la oscilación que existe entre Jueces Constitucionales impartiendo justicia, controlando al Poder y, con toda autonomía e independencia, defendiendo la Constitución; y Jueces Constitucionales controlados por el Poder, sin autonomía alguna, despreciando la Constitución. En todos los casos analizados se resolvieron cuestiones constitucionales de variada naturaleza, pero de particular importancia en los respecticos países, que pusieron a prueba la independencia y autonomía de los Jueces Constitucionales, que en definitiva es el signo esencial para que realmente exista un Estado de derecho y un régimen democrático".
Download or read book Los Jueces Constitucionales Controlando al Poder o controlados por el Poder written by Allan R. Brewer-Carías and published by Fundacion Editorial Juridica Venezolana. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En este libro, el profesor Allan R. Brewer-CarIas estudia el funcionamiento de la Justicia Constitucional en el mundo contemporAneo a travEs del anAlisis de catorce casos significativos que han sido decididos recientemente por sendos tribunales constitucionales en los Estados Unidos, el Reino Unido, Honduras, Venezuela, RepUblica Dominicana, Nicaragua, Paraguay, El Salvador, y SurAfrica, en los que se ha manifestado la particular relaciOn que existe entre el Juez Constitucional y el Poder. La Justicia Constitucional, como pieza esencial del Estado democrAtico de derecho, es el instrumento por excelencia para asegurar la supremacIa de la ConstituciOn, garantizar los derechos fundamentales y controlar las violaciones a la ConstituciOn que puedan cometer los Organos de los Poderes del Estado. Por tanto, esencialmente, la Justicia Constitucional tiene por objeto el control del Poder para asegurar en nombre del pueblo la vigencia de su ConstituciOn. Es, por tanto, hasta cierto punto, el sustituto de la revoluciOn, en el sentido de que si no existiese un sistema de Justicia Constitucional en los Estados democrAticos, ante un gobierno ilegItimo o que viole la ConstituciOn el Unico camino que tendrIa el pueblo serIa el derecho a la rebeliOn. Para que la Justicia Constitucional pueda, por tanto, enfrentarse al Poder y someterlo a la ConstituciOn en nombre del pueblo, la condiciOn mAs esencial es que tiene que estar a cargo de un Organo autOnomo e independiente. Solo asI puede controlar al Poder; de lo contrario, se torna en un Organo controlado por el Poder y, por tanto, en el mAs vil instrumento de Este para violar impunemente la ConstituciOn. Los casos judiciales analizados en este libro muestran precisamente la oscilaciOn que existe entre Jueces Constitucionales impartiendo justicia, controlando al Poder y, con toda autonomIa e independencia, defendiendo la ConstituciOn; y Jueces Constitucionales controlados por el Poder, sin autonomIa alguna, despreciando la ConstituciOn. En todos los casos analizados se resolvieron cuestiones constitucionales de variada naturaleza, pero de particular importancia en los respecticos paIses, que pusieron a prueba la independencia y autonomIa de los Jueces Constitucionales, que en definitiva es el signo esencial para que realmente exista un Estado de derecho y un rEgimen democrAtico.
Download or read book Los jueces constitucionales written by Allan-Randolph Brewer Carías and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Courts Politics and Constitutional Law written by Martin Belov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the judicialization of politics, and the politicization of courts, affect representative democracy, rule of law, and separation of powers. This volume critically assesses the phenomena of judicialization of politics and politicization of the judiciary. It explores the rising impact of courts on key constitutional principles, such as democracy and separation of powers, which is paralleled by increasing criticism of this influence from both liberal and illiberal perspectives. The book also addresses the challenges to rule of law as a principle, preconditioned on independent and powerful courts, which are triggered by both democratic backsliding and the mushrooming of populist constitutionalism and illiberal constitutional regimes. Presenting a wide range of case studies, the book will be a valuable resource for students and academics in constitutional law and political science seeking to understand the increasingly complex relationships between the judiciary, executive and legislature.
Download or read book Inter American Yearbook on Human Rights Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos Volume 17 2001 written by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy in Mexico written by Pablo González Casanova and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Andr s Bello written by Ivan Jaksic and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length biography of Andrés Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, to appear in English. Bello was also a poet, a literary critic, and an influential statesman whose contributions to nation-building and Spanish American identity are widely recognized across the region. This work provides a comprehensive interpretation of Bello's work, gives an account of Bello's life based on new information from archives in four countries, and sheds new light on this critical period in Latin American history.
Download or read book An Introduction to the History of Mexican Law written by Guillermo Floris Margadant S. and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weak Courts Strong Rights written by Mark Tushnet and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the power of the courts but by decreasing it. In Weak Courts, Strong Rights, Mark Tushnet uses a comparative legal perspective to show how creating weaker forms of judicial review may actually allow for stronger social welfare rights under American constitutional law. Under "strong-form" judicial review, as in the United States, judicial interpretations of the constitution are binding on other branches of government. In contrast, "weak-form" review allows the legislature and executive to reject constitutional rulings by the judiciary--as long as they do so publicly. Tushnet describes how weak-form review works in Great Britain and Canada and discusses the extent to which legislatures can be expected to enforce constitutional norms on their own. With that background, he turns to social welfare rights, explaining the connection between the "state action" or "horizontal effect" doctrine and the enforcement of social welfare rights. Tushnet then draws together the analysis of weak-form review and that of social welfare rights, explaining how weak-form review could be used to enforce those rights. He demonstrates that there is a clear judicial path--not an insurmountable judicial hurdle--to better enforcement of constitutional social welfare rights.
Download or read book Guidelines for Protected Areas Legislation written by Barbara J. Lausche and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2011 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central aim of this publication is to consider the key elements of a modern, comprehensive, and effective legal framework for successful management of protected areas. They provide practical guidance for all those involved in developing, improving, or reviewing national legislation on protected areas, be they legal drafters and practitioners, protected area managers, interested NGOs, or scholars. These guidelines include fifteen case studies, eight dealing with the protected area legislation of individual countries and six cases dealing with specific sites providing fundamental solutions that stand the test of time.
Download or read book World Anthropologies written by Gustavo Lins Ribeiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. World Anthropologies is the first book to provoke this conversation from various regions of the world in order to assess the diversity of relations between regional or national anthropologies and a contested, power-laden Western discourse. Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the 'provincial cosmopolitanism' of alternative anthropologies and the 'metropolitan provincialism' of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting 'world anthropologies' challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight - and hence more power - than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and provide the outline for a veritable world anthropologies project.
Download or read book Territory written by David Delaney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short introduction conveys the complexities associated with the term "territory" in a clear and accessible manner. It surveys the field and brings theory to ground in the case of Palestine. A clear and accessible introduction to the complexities associated with the term "territory". Provides an interdisciplinary survey of the many strands of research in the field. Addresses specific areas including interpretations of territorial structures; the relationship between territoriality and scale; the validity and fluidity of territory; and the practical, social processes associated with territorial re-configurations. Stresses that our understanding of territory is inseparable from our understanding of power. Uses Israel/Palestine as an extended illustrative case study. The author’s strong legal and geographical background gives the work an authoritative perspective.
Download or read book The New Constitutional Order written by Mark Tushnet and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1996 State of the Union Address, President Bill Clinton announced that the "age of big government is over." Some Republicans accused him of cynically appropriating their themes, while many Democrats thought he was betraying the principles of the New Deal and the Great Society. Mark Tushnet argues that Clinton was stating an observed fact: the emergence of a new constitutional order in which the aspiration to achieve justice directly through law has been substantially chastened. Tushnet argues that the constitutional arrangements that prevailed in the United States from the 1930s to the 1990s have ended. We are now in a new constitutional order--one characterized by divided government, ideologically organized parties, and subdued constitutional ambition. Contrary to arguments that describe a threatened return to a pre-New Deal constitutional order, however, this book presents evidence that our current regime's animating principle is not the old belief that government cannot solve any problems but rather that government cannot solve any more problems. Tushnet examines the institutional arrangements that support the new constitutional order as well as Supreme Court decisions that reflect it. He also considers recent developments in constitutional scholarship, focusing on the idea of minimalism as appropriate to a regime with chastened ambitions. Tushnet discusses what we know so far about the impact of globalization on domestic constitutional law, particularly in the areas of international human rights and federalism. He concludes with predictions about the type of regulation we can expect from the new order. This is a major new analysis of the constitutional arrangements in the United States. Though it will not be received without controversy, it offers real explanatory and predictive power and provides important insights to both legal theorists and political scientists.
Download or read book The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy written by Carlos Santiago Nino and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important and wide-ranging book, a leading political theorist and activist considers the question: What justifies democracy? Carlos Santiago Nino critically examines answers others have given and then develops his own distinctive theory of democracy, emphasizing its deliberative character. In Nino's view, democracy resembles a moral conversation and is valued because of its capacity to generate an impartial perspective, one that takes into account the interests of all citizens. Nino's conception of deliberative democracy bears on the way power is organized under a constitution. Drawing on a variety of constitutional traditions, he criticizes the presidential system and calls for citizens to participate more directly in the political life of their country. He also envisions a revitalized role for political parties. Nino shows how deliberative democracy can be combined with, and supported by, other constitutional practices, such as the specific wording of the text and the protection of individual rights. The complex constitution that emerges from his analysis consists of a historical constitution, an ideal constitution of rights, and an ideal constitution of power. Nino's goal is to explain how these three dimensions of constitutionalism can reinforce rather than conflict with each other. In a final chapter, he argues that the deliberative conception of democracy requires a more limited role for judicial review than is usually contemplated.
Download or read book The Legal Foundations of Inequality written by Roberto Gargarella and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long revolutionary movements that gave birth to constitutional democracies in the Americas were founded on egalitarian constitutional ideals. They claimed that all men were created equal with similar capacities and also that the community should become self-governing. Following the first constitutional debates that took place in the region, these promising egalitarian claims, which gave legitimacy to the revolutions, soon fell out of favor. Advocates of a conservative order challenged both ideals and favored constitutions that established religion and created an exclusionary political structure. Liberals proposed constitutions that protected individual autonomy and rights but established severe restrictions on the principle of majority rule. Radicals favored an openly majoritarian constitutional organization that, according to many, directly threatened the protection of individual rights. This book examines the influence of these opposite views during the 'founding period' of constitutionalism in countries including the United States, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela.
Download or read book Latin American Constitutionalism 1810 2010 written by Roberto Gargarella and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of 200 years of Latin American constitutionalism (1810-2010) both presents a description and a critical analysis of what Latin Americans did with their Constitutions during those years.
Download or read book Now and After The ABC of Communist Anarchism written by Alexander Berkman and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism is a presentation of the tenets of anarchism and anarchist communism, penned by Alexander Berkman. His work explains anarchist philosophy in terms that uninitiated readers can understand. The book's chapters are brief, and many of them begin with questions ( "Is Anarchism Violence?", "Will Communist Anarchism Work?"). Because of its presentation of anarchist philosophy in plain language, Now and After has become one of the best-known introductions to anarchism in book format.
