The paper « Les enjeux éthiques et démocratiques de la désignation des gardiens de la constitution » was first published in French in Le Tribonien, 2022, n° 7 (on line and on ledroitdelafontaine.fr). It has been translated with the collaboration of Nicholas Sowells. Paper here
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By Violaine Delteil, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Sorbonne Nouvelle University and Lauréline Fontaine, Professor of Constitutional Law, Sorbonne Nouvelle University French version here First published in 1913, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States[1] almost immediately became a classic among American historians and politicians. The work of Charles A. Beard was to …
Lire la suite... About the Economic Imprint of the American Constitution, cross-reading of Charles BeardThe Constitutional Imaginary versus the Fiction of Constitutional Law Translated from the French by John Angell The French version of this essay will appear in Jurisprudence, Revue Critique, 2016, vol. 2. and is on line The idea that constitutions bring what they say into existenceis widely accepted. The act of enunciation makes fictional entities become …
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