The Promise of Human Rights – Constitutional Government, Democratic Legitimacy,…
The Promise of Human RightsConstitutional Government, Democratic Legitimacy, and International Law\nAuthor(s): Jamie Mayerfeld\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812224580, 978-0812224580\nSynopsis\nInternational human rights law is sometimes criticized as an infringement of constitutional democracy. Against this view, Jamie Mayerfeld argues that international human rights law provides a necessary extension of checks and balances and therefore completes the domestic constitutional order. In today's world, constitutional democracy is best understood as a cooperative project enlisting both domestic and international guardians to strengthen the protection of human rights. Reasons to support this view may be found in the political philosophy of James Madison, the principal architect of the [url] Constitution.\n The Promise of Human Rights presents sustained theoretical discussions of huma.
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