Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law: The Theory and Practice of Weimar Constitutionalism

by Peter C. Caldwell

Popular Sovereignty and the Crisis of German Constitutional Law is a historical analysis of competing doctrines of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic. It chronicles the creation of a new constitutional jurisprudence both adequate to the needs of a modern welfare state and based on the principle of popular sovereignty. Peter C. Caldwell explores the legal nature of democracy as debated by Weimar's political theorists and constitutional lawyers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822319888
• ISBN13: 9780822319887
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"