Carl Schmitt

Constitutional Theory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Provides an interpretation of the Weimar Constitution. This book presents an argument that the legitimacy of a constitution depends on a sovereign decision of people. It develops an understanding of liberal constitutionalism that makes room for a strong, independent state. It includes an introduction by Jeffrey Seitzer and Christopher Thornhill.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340706
• ISBN-10: 0822340704
• Artikelnr.: 22874403

Autorenporträt

Carl Schmitt (1888–1985) was a leading German political and legal theorist. Among his many books are The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, Political Romanticism, The Concept of the Political, Political Theology, and Legality and Legitimacy, which is also published by Duke University Press. Jeffrey Seitzer teaches at Roosevelt University. He is the author of Comparative History and Legal Theory: Carl Schmitt in the First German Democracy and the editor and translator of Carl Schmitt’s Legality and Legitimacy. Ellen Kennedy is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Constitutional Failure: Carl Schmitt in Weimar, also published by Duke University Press. Christopher Thornhill is Professor of Politics at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of German Political Philosophy: The Metaphysics of Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Ellen Kennedy xv
Translator's Preface xvii
An Introduction to Carl Schmitt's Constitutional Theory: Issues and Context
/ Jeffrey Seitzer and Christopher Thornhill 1
Constitutional Theory
Schmitt's Preface 53
Part I. Concept of the Constitution 57
1. Absolute Concept of the Constitution (The Constitution as United Whole)
59
2. Relative Concept of the Constitution (The Constitution as a Multitude of
Individual Laws) 67
3. The Positive Concept of the Constitution (The Constitution as the
Complete Decision over the Type and Form of the Political Unity) 75
4. Ideal Concept of the Constitution ("Constitution" in an exemplary sense,
thus named because of a certain content) 89
5. The Meanings of the Term "Basic Law," Basic Norm or Lex Fundamentalis
*(Summarizing Overview) 94
6. Origin of the Constitution 97
7. The Constitution as Contract (the Genuine Constitutional Contract) 112
8. The Constitution-Making Power 125
9. Legitimacy of a Constitution 136
10. Consequences of the Theory of the Constitution-Making Power of the
People's Constitution-Making Power in Particular 140
11. Concepts Derived from the Concept of the Constitution (Constitutional
Change, Statutory Violation of the Constitution, Constitutional Suspension,
Constitutional Dispute, High Treason) 147
Part II. The Rechtsstaat Component of the Modern Constitution 167
12. The Principles of the Bourgeois Rechtsstaat 169
13. The Rechtsstaat Concept of Law 181
14. The Basic Rights 197
15. Separation (So-Called Division) of Powers 220
16. Bourgeois Rechtsstaat and Political Form 235
Part III. The Political Component of the Modern Constitution 253
17-1. The Theory of Democracy, Fundamental concepts 255
18. The People and the Democratic Constitution 268
19. Consequences of the Political Principle of Democracy 280
20. Application of the Political Principle of Democracy to Individual Areas
of State Life 286
21. Boundaries of Democracy 302
22-2. The Theory of Monarchy 308
23-3. Aristocratic Elements in Modern Bourgeois Rechtsstaat Constitutions
318
24-4. The Parliamentary System 328
25. Historical Overview of the Development of the Parliamentary System 343
26. Overview of the Possibilities for the Formation of the Parliamentary
System 359
27. The Parliamentary System of the Weimar Constitution 362
28. Dissolution of Parliament 373
Part IV. Constitutional Theory of the Federation 379
29. Fundamental Concepts of a constitutional Theory of the Federation 381
30. Consequences of the Fundamental Concepts of the Constitutional Theory
of the Federation 396
Appendix: The Weimar Constitution 409
Notes 441
Biographical Notes 464
Index 465