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Negotiable Constitution On the Limitation of Rights

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ISBN-10: 110741184X

ISBN-13: 9781107411845

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gr�goire C. N. Webber

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In matters of rights, constitutions tend to avoid settling controversies. With few exceptions, rights are formulated in open-ended language, seeking consensus on an abstraction without purporting to resolve the many moral-political questions implicated by rights. The resulting view has been that rights extend everywhere but are everywhere infringed by legislation seeking to resolve the very moral-political questions the constitution seeks to avoid. First published in 2009, The Negotiable Constitution challenges this view. Arguing that underspecified rights call for greater specification, Grégoire C. N. Webber draws on limitation clauses common to most bills of rights to develop a new…    
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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/26/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English

Peter Wilson is a former associate professor in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore, where he taught from 1989 to 2007, having previously taught for a year in Malaysia and, prior to that, at a number of universities in the UKincluding Warwick, Sussex, Bradford, and Hull. His main teaching and research interests lie in macroeconomics and international economics, with special reference to East and Southeast Asia. Dr. Wilson has coauthored two books on Singapore and published articles in journals such as World Economy, Applied Economics, Open Economies Review, Journal of Economic Studies, Asian Economic Journal, Economic Modeling, and Journal of the Asia Pacific…    

Introduction: on the limitation of rights
The constitution as activity
The received approach to the limitation of rights
Challenging the age of balancing
Constituting rights by limitation
The democratic activity of limiting rights
Justifying rights in a free and democratic society
Conclusion