This book was written as one of the attempts in search of answers to the eternal questions, still not answered to the end: why some forms of the arrangement of the state are suitable for some people and not suitable for others? Do you know what Uganda, Fiji, Guyana, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Indonesia have in common? After the end of colonial rule, they all chose the classical Westminster model of parliamentary republic, hoping to put an end to the corruption and authoritarianism. However, all of them abandoned this form of government shortly, as it got much worse. And simultaneously, are there universals applicable to all states? What is the common thing through which no nation can transcend the very nature of man? And this is by no means the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...
Series: II
Edition: 1
Publisher: Whitelocke Publications
Year: 2017
Language: english
City: Oxford
CHAPTER III Sovereignty of the Nation-State
§ 1. Vitae Necisque Potestas
§ 2. Limited Unlimitedness
§ 3. ‘We, the People…’
§ 4. Sacrisque Omnibus Prolatis
§ 5. Novus Ordo Seclorum
§ 6. A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma
§ 7. Se Nоn é Vero, é Ben Trovato
§ 8. The Identity of the State: the Demystification of the Concept
§ 9. Potestas Indirecta
CHAPTER IV Constitution of the Nation-State
§ 1. Temporality of the Constitution
§ 2. Temporal Imperialism?
§ 3. Vincula Quibus Constitutae
§ 4. Birth of the Constitution
§ 5. Teleology of the Constitution
§ 6. Constitutional Regimes of Ownership
§ 7. Constitutional Engineering
§ 8. Checks and Balances?
§ 9. Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
§ 10. Constitutional Identity and Multiculturalism
§ 11. Dignitas
INSTEAD OF A CONCLUSION: Bonnum Commune Communitatis
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