The Guardian of the Constitution: Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt on the Limits of Constitutional Law

This volume provides the first English translation of Hans Kelsen's and Carl Schmitt's influential Weimar-era debate on constitutional guardianship and the legitimacy of constitutional review. It includes Kelsen's seminal piece, 'The Nature and Development of Constitutional Adjud...

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Other Authors: Vinx, Lars (Editor, Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2015
Series:Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law no. 12
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Summary:This volume provides the first English translation of Hans Kelsen's and Carl Schmitt's influential Weimar-era debate on constitutional guardianship and the legitimacy of constitutional review. It includes Kelsen's seminal piece, 'The Nature and Development of Constitutional Adjudication', as well as key extracts from the 'Guardian of the Constitution' which present Schmitt's argument against constitutional review. Also included are Kelsen's review of Schmitt's 'Guardian of the Constitution', as well as some further material by Kelsen and Schmitt on presidential dictatorship under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution. These texts show Kelsen and Schmitt responding to one another, in the context of a debate focused on a concrete constitutional crisis, thus allowing the reader to assess the plausibility of Kelsen's and Schmitt's legal and constitutional theories
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Physical Description:1 online resource (290 pages)
ISBN:9781107092686
9781316136256
DOI:10.1017/CBO9781316136256

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