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Additional authors

1. Hart, Vivien.
2. Stimson, Shannon C.

Description

1. x, 245 pages; 25 cm

Series statement

1. Fulbright papers ; v. 11

Uniform title

1. Fulbright papers ; v. 11.

Subject

1. Constitutional history > United States
2. Civil rights > United States > History
3. European federation
4. Constitutional history > Canada
5. Civil rights
6. Constitutional history
7. Social policy
8. Grondwetten
9. Rechtsontwikkeling
10. Verfassungsrecht
11. Aufsatzsammlung
12. United States > Social policy
13. Canada
14. United States
15. Social conditions Policies Of Government
16. United States

Genre/Form

1. History.
2. Aufsatzsammlung.

Contents

1. The US Constitution and the textuality of American culture / Wayne Franklin -- Constitution and imagination: the myth of reason -- the reason of myth / Emory Elliott -- Constitutional discourse: a commentary / Stephen Fender -- Written constitutions and social rights / David P. Currie -- Written constitutions and negative rights: some comments on Professor Currie / Christopher McCrudden -- ̀The most willful blindness': the Supreme Court and social facts / H.N. Hirsch -- Spousal equality and the law: beyond an èqual rights' approach / Mary Lyndon Shanley -- The right to a fair wage: American experience and the European Social Charter / Vivien Hart.
2. Written constitutions and social rights / David P. Currie -- Written constitutions and negative rights: some comments on Professor Currie / Christopher McCrudden -- ̀The most willful blindness': the Supreme Court and social facts / H.N. Hirsch -- Spousal equality and the law: beyond an èqual rights' approach / Mary Lyndon Shanley -- The right to a fair wage: American experience and the European Social Charter / Vivien Hart.
3. Social rights, social facts, and the written constitution: American reflections / Cheryl B. Welch -- Social rights, social facts, and the written constitution: European reflections / Elizabeth Meehan -- Reflections on the economic interpretations of the Constitution / Shannon C. Stimson -- The constitution of a monetary authority for Europe / Murray Milgate -- Constitution and national identity in contemporary Canada: a historian's view / Ged Martin -- The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: an instrument for change / Létourneau and Yves Demontigny -- Constitution-making in Canada: writing a national identity or preparing for national disintegration? / Robert C. Vipond.

Call number

1. IBD 93-6545

Note

1. Papers from a colloquium held at the University of Sussex in April 1991.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Writing a national identity : political, economic, and cultural perspectives on the written constitution / edited by Vivien Hart and Shannon C. Stimson.

Imprint

1. Manchester, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Manchester University Press in association with the Fulbright Commission, London ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ©1993.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Fulbright papers ; v. 11
2. Fulbright papers ; v. 11.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents

Indexed term

1. Social conditions Policies Of Government
2. United States

Added author

1. Hart, Vivien.
2. Stimson, Shannon C.

Other form:

1. Online version: Writing a national identity. Manchester, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Manchester University Press in association with the Fulbright Commission, London ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ©1993 (OCoLC)606065623
2. Online version: Writing a national identity. Manchester, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Manchester University Press in association with the Fulbright Commission, London ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ©1993 (OCoLC)622685700

LCCN

1. 92029473

ISBN

1. 0719035899 (hardback)
2. 9780719035890 (hardback)

Research call number

1. IBD 93-6545