A defence of democracy against judicial review; political against legal constitutionalism; the electoral system against the judges.
Who is it for? Advanced undergraduate students of law or politics and postgraduates in these subjects.
Presentation: A scholarly polemic; erudite, and clearly and persuasively written.
Would you recommend it? Provides an excellent means of exposing brighter law students to high-level political theory and offers a salutary rebuff to lawyers' hubris.
Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy
Author: Richard Bellamy
Edition: First
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages: 280
Price: £15.99 and £45.00
ISBN 9780521865104 and 683678