TY  - GEN
N2  - "Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to recent processes of constitutional transition. A Sociology of Constitutions explores the reasons why modern societies require constitutions and constitutional norms and presents a distinctive socio-normative analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy"--
AB  - "Using a methodology that both analyzes particular constitutional texts and theories and reconstructs their historical evolution, Chris Thornhill examines the social role and legitimating status of constitutions from the first quasi-constitutional documents of medieval Europe, through the classical period of revolutionary constitutionalism, to recent processes of constitutional transition. A Sociology of Constitutions explores the reasons why modern societies require constitutions and constitutional norms and presents a distinctive socio-normative analysis of the constitutional preconditions of political legitimacy"--
T1  - A sociology of constitutionsconstitutions and state legitimacy in historical-sociological perspective /
DA  - 2011.
CY  - Cambridge :
AU  - Thornhill, C. J.
CN  - K3161
PB  - Cambridge University Press,
PP  - Cambridge :
PY  - 2011.
ID  - 840202
KW  - Constitutional history.
KW  - Constitutional law
TI  - A sociology of constitutionsconstitutions and state legitimacy in historical-sociological perspective /
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ER  -