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- constitutionalism, doctrine that a government’s authority is determined by a body of laws or constitution.
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Constitutionalism, doctrine that a government’s authority is determined by a body of laws or constitution. Although constitutionalism is sometimes regarded as a synonym for limited government, that is only one interpretation and by no means the most prominent one historically.
Jan 10, 2001 · Constitutionalism is the idea, often associated with the political theories of John Locke and the founders of the American republic, that government can and should be legally limited in its powers, and that its authority or legitimacy depends on its observing these limitations.
Constitutionalism as a theory and in practice stands for the principle that there are—in a properly governed state—limitations upon those who exercise the powers of government, and that these limitations are spelled out in a body of higher law which is enforceable in a variety of ways, political and judicial.
Aug 30, 2016 · Constitutionalism lays down precepts such as the rule of law, democracy, human rights, and the separation of powers, which operate within a constitutional order to mediate the interaction between law and power in subnational, national, supranational, and global governance systems.
Constitutionalism is about the normative and structural premises of political orders; but whereas constitutions utter the forms of organisation of specific political spaces and the normative commitments of the members of that polity,1 and whereas ‘constitutionalisation’ refers to a constitution-hardening process, constitutionalism is the ideolog...
A constitution is a set of fundamental legal-political rules that: (1) are binding on everyone in the state, including ordinary lawmaking institutions; (2) concern the structure and operation of the institutions of government, political
Dec 3, 2008 · Constitutionalism is the constraining of government in order to better effectuate the fundamental principles of the political regime. The great constitutional...
