A Grammar of Constitutionalism. Part I:Enchantment of Plato, or Ghost of Universality

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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
Pages: 736
City: Oxford

Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. Wholeness of Constitutionalism
§ 1. Human Deficiency
§ 2. Genetic determinism?
§ 3. Quod Homo Perficiatur…
§ 4. Eidos vs. Eidolon
§ 5. Human Nature
§ 6. Justice and Law
§ 7. Justice or Law?
§ 8. Ideology Matrix
§ 9. Mimesis of Constitutionalism
§ 10. Eidos of Constitutionalism:
Constitutionalism as a Sum of Technologies
CHAPTER II. Wholeness of the Nation-State?
§ 1. Group Stratification
§ 2. Normativists and Instrumentalists
§ 3. Engineering of Nation-State
§ 4. The Case of the European Union
§ 5. Specifics of Azerbaijan
§ 6. Exo-Socialization
§ 7. Color Est e Pluribus Unus
§ 8. Blut und Boden
§ 9. The Great Identifier
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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