Constitutional Imaginaries

Name: Constitutional Imaginaries
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Constitutional ImaginariesA Theory of European Societal Constitutionalism\nAuthor(s): Ji? P?ib?\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032079141, 978-1032079141\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a social theoretical analysis of imaginaries as constituent social forces of positive law and politics. \n\nConstitutional imaginaries invite constitutional and political theorists, philosophers and sociologists to rethink the concept of constitution as the normative legal limitation and control of political power. They show that political constitutions include societal forces impossible to contain by legal norms and political institutions. The constitution of society as one polity defined by the unity of topos-ethnos-nomos, that is the unity of territory, people and their laws, informed the rise of modern nations and nationalisms as much as constitutional democratic statehood and its liberal and republican regimes. However, the imag.