Local roots of constitutionalism.

From: Perspectives on Political Science | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Sabetti, Filippo | Copyright information

In this article, I make several arguments. The first is that the local, and not the national or international, community is both logically and practically the starting point of constitutionalism and, correlatively, of self-governance. The second argument is that local roots of constitutionalism in North America, as in Europe, owe their origins to medieval times--that is, constitutionalism predates modernity and industrialization. If so, this has positive implications for much of th...

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