Constitutional Democracy: Creating and Maintaining a Just Political Order

by Walter F. Murphy

Book Overview

Winner, 2007 Best of the Social Sciences, Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers

Constitutional democracy is a political hybrid, the product of an uneasy union between, on the one hand, the normative theories of constitutionalism and democracy and, on the other, the desire to live under what James Madison called free government. In this engaging and provocative work, Walter F. Murphy combines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801891078
• ISBN13: 9780801891076
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher