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Beyond the Bundesverfassungsgericht: On the Necessary Cunning of Constitutional Reasoning
Author(s) -
Everson Michelle
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
european law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1468-0386
pISSN - 1351-5993
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0386.00059
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , politics , accident (philosophy) , political science , reflection (computer programming) , law and economics , law , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , programming language
It has frequently been remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.