Beyond origins : rethinking founding in a time of constitutional democracy /
Beyond Origins challenges the common view of foundings as singular, extraordinary moments of political origin and creation. Engaging with cases of founding across political traditions -- from classical Greece to contemporary Latin America -- the book argues that it is only through pragmatist underst...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Foundational invocations
- A good and perfect beginning
- A tale of two democratic foundings
- Foundings, origins, and repetition
- The promise and perils of presidential refounding in Latin America
- The regenerative founding
- Another birth of freedom.